forgive me if this is a simple question, its a new line of seo for me. I have just made a new website with a technorati tag on each page, related to that page's content. What are the benefits in terms of seo of this (the technique was suggested to me by a friend), would it help with spidering, rankings etc. Also to get these pages to be listed in technorati should i ping them out to the technorati ping service? i assume that this will give me the benefits then of havign backlinks from their sites
technorati tags on your page makes it easier for your visitors to search other things on technorati. So no SEO benefit actually, but you gain visitors' "trust". ping from technorati is useful for your site. But ping itself does not mean that your site is included on technorati. It's only getting your site into the "look again later, maybe new and interesting topic" You need to ping, claim your blog, and post favourites to really get the benefit of technorati.