I tried out Technorati’s WTF recently and I actually had pretty good results with it. The WTF stands for “where’s the fire” referring to that heat you feel when reading the hottest post. It’s kind of like Technorati’s DIGG. The one thing about it that I did like a lot is that I know a lot of people on Technorati but I don’t on digg. Most people use Technorati so they’re already signed up – that made it easier for me because I just don’t want to join another latest greatest craze to hit the market. Just go to: http://www.technorati.com/people/technorati/yourusername and you’ll see WTF at the top.

I have two WTF’s up right now:

Beginner Bloggers Neglected

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Beginner Bloggers get left behind while most tips are too…

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There are 1000’s of beginner bloggers who have great potential but end up reading tips from popular sources. I’ve been helping lots of newbies lately, and every detail must be explained down to which mouse button to click. And they are bloggers! Big league bloggers often won’t link to them but what they fail to see is that you never know who will rise. New bloggers are a great source of links if you help them and coach them. Don’t be so concerned with every article being on time and perfect.

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Also I have this one:

Malaysian Artist Emila Yusof

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Help a truly talented artist and blooger win the All…

3 days ago

HELP A FELLOW BLOGGER WHO DESERVES RECOGNITION My wonderful friend Emila from Emila’s Illustrated Blog has been selected top 20 out of 600 in the All MalaysianBloggers Project sponsored by Genting – the City of Entertainment If you don’t know who she is then you are missing out on one the most talented artists around today. Her artwork is so original, upon seeing it once, you will never forget her magical style. This is a chance for us as bloggers to help bring this talent to a higher level.

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To write your own WTF just click “Write a new WTF”. Write a short description of the post you’re referring to; it can be your own post or a post from someone else. Also, look at the other WTF’s and each one as you can see has the option to “add a blurb”. To really give someone extra support you can write a post about their post (a blurb). After you write a blurb or a fresh WTF go to WTF – My WTF’s and you’ll see under the title “view search results for this topic”. Click it and find a very important page for WTF’s. Lets take one of my WTF’s for example:

http://www.technorati.com/tag/Malaysian+Artist+Emila+Yusof

Now you may not have anything listed on this page, your WTF and post are new so probably wont be listed yet. Go to the bottom righthand corner and you’ll see the little java script that references your post and links. Copy and paste it the actual post on your blog – make sure you put it in using HTML view or code view etc. and make sure it’s on the bottom of your post. Save it. You will now see a little green icon that links to your technorati search page.

Lets look at this Tecnorati search result again:

http://www.technorati.com/tag/Malaysian+Artist+Emila+Yusof

Now you have this to remember as your assignment:

http://www.technorati.com/tag/

and type in your technorati tags after, like in the first example. You can use any combination of words you like. Lets say you sell internet hamburgers, delivered hot anywhere on Earth in 30 minutes or less – you type in “http://www.technorati.com/tag/hamburger” or add other words with a plus sign “http://www.technorati.com/tag/hamburger+delivery” and maybe your post isn’t listed among the topics it should be. Well, write a WTF about your post, publish the WTF and then paste in the javascript we discussed earlier. Click your new green icon to go to the newly created search result! Do you see the point? Now you’re post is referenced by Technorati. Now when you search as in my example above you’ll find the search result:

http://www.technorati.com/tag/Malaysian+Artist+Emila+Yusof

This will now bring you to a search result where you will see the people who put in the javascript. Emila herself put in the javascript and her’s is what my WTF is about. If you read my WTF, you’ll see I have three other links listed at the bottom. This is a good thing to do. You should add some links in a post that you use to write a WTF and also add those links or friends links etc. in the WTF itself. All in all I like using it, and try it out for a little while. Digg might not be the right place for a new blogger and really I think it’s mostly effective if you already have a popular blog. Of course you may be a Digg master so don’t hesitate to use it. The WTF I think would be a pretty good place for a beginner blogger to learn. You also learn to see how technorati searches work from writing WTF’s which can be valuble if you want more references to your work or to help someone. If you’ve never used Digg or anything like it, at least go have a look at WTF’s and see what you think. Or envision how your new philosophically perplexing post on transcending human consciousness could rise to the top and get you some new traffic! Don’t be confused by the searches with plus signs like in the above examples. When you look at WTF’s you’ll find your searches already have these plus signs. I just want you to pay attention to the address in your search bar and be aware of what you’re looking at. This awareness alone will help you immensely While you’re at it, just go vote for Emila!

Check out this fantastic article on WTF’s

Dosh Dosh has a great article here -For those wanting lots of details.

Please vote for my WTF’s including one on this very post: Vote here
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