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Are you blogging with WordPress? Then I have a
couple of tips that will make your blog more “visible”.
The first thing I suggest you change on your blog
is your Ping List.
A “Ping List” is a list of url's that will be notified every time a
new post is published on your blog. This is one of the reasons why
WordPress is so effective at drawing traffic. Each time you add a
new post it will automatically “ping” (meaning “notify”) the URLs in
your “Ping List” that you have just entered new content.
This alerts the search engine robots to come
spider your site and will help your new content getting indexed in
the search engines.
Adding a quality “Ping List” can make a dramatic
difference in regards to organic traffic.
Below is a listing of URLs to add to your “Ping
List”. Copy the list and paste it into the appropriate box in the
“Writing” area of your blog. First, click on “Settings”, then
“Writing” and scroll down to the “ping” box. By default, there is
only one URL here ... pingomatic.com.
Just
copy the list below and paste the text into the box (there should be
only one URL per line). After you've pasted the URLs, don't forget
to click the “Save Changes” button. Every url in your list will
automatically be “pinged” each time a new post is published.
Here’s the ping list:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://bblog.com/ping.php
Another tip:
While WordPress is very search-engine friendly
right out of the box there is one more thing you can do to give your
blogs a little extra magic.
By customizing the Permalinks structure
you will be able to attract more traffic! In the “Settings” area
click the “Permalinks” link. Tick the “Custom Structure” radio
button and enter /%postname%/ (with the slashes) in the box. The
reason for doing this is it makes your blog posts much more search
engine friendly than the default option.
Note: Some blogs/servers require that you put
/index.php first in the box (making it /index.php/%postname%/), but
try without first.
IMPORTANT: It is important that you change
your Permalink structure soon after installing your WordPress blog.
If you have an existing blog that has content indexed then I DO NOT
recommend changing the Permalink structure! Doing so will change all
of the URLs for your Post Pages and your indexed content will now
have broken URLs.
P.S. “Blogging 101” is a useful
ebook about blogging and how to make money from your blog. You can
download it for free here:
http://onlinehomebizniz.com/ebooks/Blogging101.pdf

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