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Claiming your blog establishes that you are its owner, and allows you to use Technorati services to increase your blog’s visibility. Some services include:
1) Being able to associate your profile with your blog as it's author as well include a blog description on your Blog's page at http://technorati.com/blogs/[URL]
2) Being able to have your blog listed in the Blog Directory and Blog Search under its blog tags.
3) Being able to associate your profile with your blog in Keyword and Tag Search results.
4) Become eligible as a featured contributing blogger in our channel pages
5) Being able to use and install Technorati Widgets such as "Favorite Me" and the Embed Widget(Technorati Authority, Technorati search box, profile photo, "Member profile” link, “Linking blogs” link, Tag cloud, Blog reactions, and Favorites) for your blog.
6) Places your blog in a higher priority queue for indexing when the ping is received.
