Technorati has shared certain guidelines that they use for indexing blogs. Excerpts:

What is not a blog according to Technorati

• Forums, social networks, chat streams, web pages or standalone feeds.
• Aggregation Sites that are aggregation of blogs or posts from other blogs, planet sites, feed splicers, etc. However, each blog can be indexed individually under its original blog URL.
• Standalone Feeds: Technorati indexes blogs via the blog home page with assistance of feeds only
• Permalinks: please do not ping with your permalink URLs

What is a Good Blog according to Technorati

• Posts listed from newest to oldest Permalinks for each post
• Original content
• Posts structured with date, title, body, author, clear post boundaries (beginning and end) and (optional) tags, categories, and comments
• Feed URL for the content of the blog
• Comment feeds should not be listed as alternates for the blog as they do not represent the blog content, but rather, the comments.

Technorati Guidelines

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