UPDATE: Okay, so maybe I was just too impatient. The blog is now listed.  I was just surprised that it took several days for it to appear.

I’ve generally been a big fan of Technorati and they still are the primary blog search tool I use… but I admit to being a bit puzzled about what’s going on right now, specifically with this blog.  Or more precisely – what is NOT going on with this blog.  For whatever reason, it is not appearing at all in the Technorati blog directory.  If you do a search of the blog directory on the URL, you get:

Huh?

There are blogs, and then there’s whatever you just typed in. If it’s a blog, we don’t know about it. Maybe you made a typo. Or maybe it’s a blog that doesn’t exist. Maybe you don’t exist. (In which case, please ignore this.)

Which, okay, is one of the cuter error messages I’ve seen lately, but doesn’t address the issue.  Given that I’ve launched a good number of different blogs and websites over time, I find this puzzling.  In the past, the pattern has always been one of “start pinging Technorati and typically a couple of hours later you are in the blog directory”.  Given that I started pinging Technorati from this blog, I think, sometime late last week, I don’t think this is a case of me being impatient.  And they must now be getting pings from this blog, considering that:

• The offline editor I’m using, Windows Live Writer, is set to ping Technorati when it publishes a post in this blog.
• TypePad is set to ping Technorati (and other services) when a new post is published in this blog.
• Feedburner’s “PingShot” service is set to ping Technorati whenever a new post appears in the RSS feed.

So one would think that Technorati would be getting the message.  (Incidentally, this is the same way my other blogs are set up.)

So is it something else?  Did the name of this blog trigger some filter and I’m in some anti-spam-blog queue awaiting approval? Very puzzling indeed.  We’ll see… perhaps I am just being impatient.