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Jul

25

2010

What the Heck is Pinging and do I Need it for my Blog?

Posted by David Haines | Comments (5)

Category : Blogging

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This article explains what a Ping Service is and why it’s important for you if you want your blog articles indexed on major search engines. It also points out a potential problem with the WordPress Update Service and a way you can avoid getting banned by the very Pinging Services you’re pushing your content to.

Ping Definition per Wikipedia in “Geek Speak” – In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. An XML-RPC signal is sent to one or more “ping servers,” which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material. Many blog authoring tools automatically ping one or more servers each time the blogger creates a new post or updates an old one.

In other words, every time you post a new blog article you should ping the various search engines so they will know you have new content and come spider your site to index it.

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If you use WordPress as your blogging platform, there is a feature included that will send a ping every time you have new content. You will find this service under Settings -> Writing in the menu on the left of your WordPress Admin Page. Scroll to the bottom and you will find a section called “Update Services”. Here is where your ping settings are found.

WordPress comes with the default ping service rpc.pingomatic.com, which is fine to start out with, but there are literally 100s of other pinging services you can use if you really want to get your site out there. I will include a list of some popular ones below.

A problem I have found with the WordPress Update Service is that every time you update an article, WordPress will send a ping to the list of Ping Services, thus duplicating your URL. That’s a no-no for most services and they will ban your URL from being indexed. Not good! And this can happen without your knowledge and you can potentially lose a lot of traffic without even know it.

The solution I’ve found is a plugin called MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. This plugin will make sure WordPress does not send a ping update to your list if you update/modify a blog article. It only allows the pings when you Publish your article the first time, so your chances of being banned are highly minimized.

I highly recommend that you install this plugin and activate it right away. You will need to register your name and site with the plugin to use it. After the activation, go to Settings -> MBP Ping Optimizer. You don’t need to do much except put the list below in the URIs to Ping, and make sure the Enable Pinging checkbox is checked. Then Save Settings and it will do the work for you.

Here’s the list of recommended Ping sites.

http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

http://1470.net/api/ping

http://a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/ping

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://bitacoles.net/notificacio.php

http://bitacoles.net/ping.php

http://bitacoras.net/ping

http://blo.gs/ping.php

http://blog.goo.ne.jp

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php

http://blogdb.jp

http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc

http://blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

http://blogoole.com/ping/

http://blogoon.net/ping/

http://blogpeople.net/ping

http://blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1

http://blogsearch.google.ae/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.be/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.bg/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ca/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ch/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.cl/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.cr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.hu/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.id/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.il/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.in/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.it/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.jp/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.ma/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.nz/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.th/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.uk/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.ve/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.za/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.ar/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.au/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.br/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.co/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.do/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.mx/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.my/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.pe/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.sa/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.sg/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.tr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.tw/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.ua/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.uy/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.vn/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.de/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.es/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.fi/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.fr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.gr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.hr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ie/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.in/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.it/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.jp/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.lt/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.nl/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.pl/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.pt/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ro/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ru/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.se/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.sk/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.tw/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.us/ping/RPC2

http://blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://blogsnow.com/ping

http://blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://blogupdate.org/ping/

http://bulkfeeds.net

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://catapings.com/ping.php

http://coreblog.org/ping

http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi

http://feedsky.com/api/RPC2

http://fgiasson.com/pings/ping.php

http://hamo-search.com/ping.php

http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/

http://imblogs.net/ping/

http://lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

http://mod-pubsub.org

http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt

http://mod-pubsub.org/knapps/blogchatt

http://mod-pubsub.org/ping.php

http://newsblog.jungleboots.org/ping.php

http://newsisfree.com/RPCCloud

http://packetmonster.net/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.amagle.com

http://ping.amagle.com/

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.blo.gs

http://ping.blogg.de/

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc

http://ping.blogoon.net/

http://ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2

http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc

http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc

http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc

http://ping.fc2.com/

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/RPC2/

http://ping.kutsulog.net/

http://ping.myblog.jp

http://ping.namaan.net/rpc

http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php

http://ping.snap.com/ping/RPC2

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://ping.weblogs.se

http://ping.wordblog.de/

http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc

http://pingoat.com/

http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2

http://pingqueue.com/rpc/

http://popdex.com/addsite.php

http://r.hatena.ne.jp/rpc

http://rcs.datashed.net

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2

http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2

http://rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger

http://rpc.britblog.com/

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080

http://rpc.newsgator.com/

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping

http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.twingly.com

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://rpc.wpkeys.com

http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx

http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz

http://snipsnap.org/RPC2

http://syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php

http://topicexchange.com

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php

http://wasalive.com/ping/

http://weblogues.com/ping/

http://weblogues.com/RPC/

http://www.a2b.cc

http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.bloglines.com/ping

http://www.blogoole.com/ping/

http://www.blogoon.net/ping

http://www.blogpeople.net

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://www.blogroots.com

http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1

http://www.blogroots.com/tbpopuli.blog?id=1

http://www.blogsdominicanos.com/ping/

http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://www.catapings.com/ping.php

http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2

http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/

http://www.imblogs.net/ping/

http://www.lasermemory.com

http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc

http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php

http://www.mod-pubsub.org/knapps/blogchatter/ping.php

http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php

http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud

http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php

http://www.octora.com/add_rss.php

http://www.popdex.com

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://www.snipsnap.org

http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2

http://www.wasalive.com/ping/

http://www.weblogues.com

http://www.weblogues.com/RPC

http://www.xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php

http://www.zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php

http://xmlrpc.blogg.de

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

http://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php

http://zing.zingfast.com

Happy Pinging! I hope you find this article useful, I’d be thrilled if you would share it with all your blogging friends, and I’m sure they could use the added traffic.

To Your Success, Because Your Success Matters!

David Haines
(215) 268-6696 Anytime!
Hey, Let’s connect on Skype! My ID is davidahaines

Jun

27

2010

What the Heck is a Gravatar and Why do I Need One?

Posted by David Haines | Comments (0)

Category : Blogging, Branding

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Have you ever noticed that sometimes there are little pictures of the people who leave comments on blogs, and sometimes there is only a blank or crazy design picture?

Well, that little picture is called a Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar), and you need one if you leave comments or have a blog of your own. It should be part of your personal branding strategy.

People connect with pictures, and it’s very important that your picture is connected to EVERYTHING you do. Let others know who you are and what you look like. They are more apt to remember you if they can associate what you say with your picture.

So now, on to the good stuff! Setting up a Gravatar is very easy.

My very good friend Sharon Hartman created a great video training on how to set up a Gravatar.

If you would like to bypass the video, you can go to http://www.gravatar.com and follow the instructions there.

So hey, when you’re finished come back here and leave a comment for this article. I’d love to see your picture!

Happy Branding!

To Your Success, Because Your Success Matters!

David Haines
(215) 268-6696 Anytime!

Special Thanks goes out to Sharon Hartman for her great video training and her friendship. Check out her awesome blog at http://sharon-hartman.com

Jun

26

2010

How Can People Find You If You Are Hiding?

Posted by David Haines | Comments (5)

Category : Blogging

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I’ve been visiting a lot of blogs lately and have noticed something that puzzles me.

The lack of a proper contact page.

By not having a contact page or one that only has a form to fill out, its saying that you really don’t want to be contacted, or that you only want to be contacted on your terms. I guess that’s ok if you have a blog that’s strictly for informational purposes and you wish to be left alone, but I’m talking about blogs where people come to learn about you or about Network Marketing.

The whole deal about Attraction Marketing is to attract people to you, and those who feel a connection with you will want to build a relationship with you and even possibly partner with you in your business.

My question is, how can they do that if you are hiding behind a form and don’t provide an easy way for them to get in contact with you?

Now maybe it’s just me, but putting a form on a page for me to fill out to contact you doesn’t fly with me. I’d rather send you an email or dial your number and talk to you if I have a question or want to get more information. I want to know it’s really YOU that I’m contacting. Also, another subliminal message you’re sending is that you only want me to fill out the form so you’ll have my contact information so you can pitch me your deal later. Maybe I just want to contact you, not become part of your list. There should be other places on your site for that, but not on your contact page.

So here are a few items I suggest you add to a contact page to make it easier to get a hold of you:

  • Name (First and Last preferably)
  • Phone Number
  • Email Address
  • IM Info (Some people like IM communication)
  • Facebook Info
  • Twitter Info
  • MySpace Info
  • LinkedIn Info
  • Other Social Networks of your choice

If you’d like to have a Contact Form also, feel free, but don’t let that be the only way someone can reach you.

Remember, if you have a blog to attract people to you, make it easy for them to interact with you. Stop hiding behind it.

To Your Success, Because Your Success Matters!

David Haines
(215) 268-6696 Anytime! (here is not a bad place for a phone number either)

May

28

2010

Awesome New WordPress Plugin For Your Blog!

Posted by David Haines | Comments (9)

Category : Blogging

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Take a look at the right side of this page. See all those cool Social Network Icons? Cool huh?

I just found a really cool WordPress Plugin that you can use to bring all your Social Profiles to one location i.e. either left or right side of your blog pages in a floating manner, saving your sidebar or footer space for ads or other important data and widgets.

The Plugin is called Cute Profiles and you can find it here: Cute Profiles. Instructions on downloading and installing are included on that page.

Enjoy!!

To Your Success! Because Your Success Matters!

David Haines
(215) 268-6696 Anytime!

P.S. To build your own big income in network marketing, the people you sponsor will need a constant stream of hot prospects and the training to turn them into leaders. I can help you do that for them, and for yourself. For details, call me at (215) 268-6696 or download our FREE eBook called “Success in 10 Steps” here: http://www.davidahaines.com.