If you want to help search engine find your blog, then it would be a good idea to add additional pinging services to your default list. If you have a WordPress blog, you can update your pinging services by clicking on “Options” then “Writing”. At the bottom of the “Writing” page, there is a list of Update Services and all you have to do is delete the ones that are already there and add the links below (the ones already there and in the list below).

The list of pinging services that you can add are below:

•  http://api.feedster.com/ping
• http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
• http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
• http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
• http://ping.blo.gs/
• http://ping.feedburner.com
• http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
• http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
• http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
• http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
• http://rpc.newsgator.com/
• http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
• http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
• http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
• http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
• http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
• http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
• http://ping.weblogs.se/
• http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
• http://coreblog.org/ping/
• http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
• http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
• http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
• http://ping.myblog.jp
• http://ping.bitacoras.com
• http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
• http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
• http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
• http://1470.net/api/ping
• http://bblog.com/ping.php
• http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

OK, so you have Google Adsense on your website or blog, now what? Like anything else, you’ll get out of Google Adsense what you put into it. Building a profitable Google Adsense website or blog takes time, effort, and patients. Once you have a balance of each of these, you passive income may increase using Google Adsense.

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One of the most interesting features of a blog is the commenting function. Because of it the blog doesn’t have to be a one way flow of information. The ability to accept comments turns a simple web page into an invitation to communicate.

I’m sure that you’ve visited busy blogs that get lots of comment activity. The interaction comes close to what we see on a community forum, only the blog owner has control over the subject that their visitors get to comment on. The give and take of ideas is fun and adds valuable fresh content to the website.

If you’re a new blogger, you may have realized that the availability of commenting isn’t a guarantee that people will actually leave a comment. It does take work to get people commenting on your blog. This can be a bit frustrating but there are some ways that you can increase the number of comments on your blog. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you been wanting a tool that would help you track your blog’s traffic along with how it is performing? Then look no further, Feedburner & Performacing are the perfect tools for you.

Feedburner : is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Their Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web. Click here to read more about Feedburner. Click here to learn more about using blog feeds. this is a FR*EE tool.

Performancing Metrics: is a new and unique web analyzer that gives bloggers and smaller web sites a more personal understanding of their visitors. This tool integrates Feedburner into its reporting structure. Great tool that enhances your ability to better understand your blog/website visitor and best of all its FR*EE for those with less than 1,000 page views per day. Click here for more details about this great product and then click on “Learn More”.

With the introduction of the blog, creation of a community driven, local, online, news website is made so much easier than it was using a conventional website.

Blog Platform

Install WordPress in your new domain or a subdomain of your existing domain. A new domain for your community driven, local, online, news website is preferable for indexing, ranking and ease of search purposes.

Choose and install a WordPress theme, suitable for your community driven, local, online, news website, from the thousands freely available on the internet.

Design your header and customize the appearance of your community driven, local, online, news website.

At the most basic level, your new community driven, local, online, news website is now ready to roll.

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