Claim Your Blog in Technorati

I just submitted my site to Technorati for inclusion in the blog directory with the hope of gaining some additional link value, traffic and visibility.  I wasn’t planning to write a post about this, but claiming my blog was really confusing. Particularly, the step of claiming the Technorati’s claim token – mine is 9SNH82Q3FB6G.
Here are the steps to claim:

1. Go to Technorati and log-in or sign-up for an account.
2. Fill out the required fields of your profile information.
3. On your profile, scroll to the bottom of the page to the “My claimed blogs” section and add the URL of your blog.
4. On the next page, fill in all of the required details of your blog and proceed to the next step which leads to a “Blog claimed status” page.

 You will receive an email that says the following:

Thank you for submitting your blog claim on Technorati. Technorati will need to verify that you are an author of the site http://yoursite.com by looking for a unique code. We have just assigned the claim token ############ to this claim. Please visit http://technorati.com/account/ for more details, including how to use the claim token.

1. Write a blog post (such as this) and include your 12-digit technorati claim token in the body of the post, near the beginning (hence my code at the top)
2. Return to your account page, scroll to the bottom, and click the button to “Check Claim”

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs.
By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. The name Technorati is a blend of the words technology and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism.
Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek