Tuesday, 20 January 2009
How to get your entry indexed for search engines and a couple of important notes
First order of business, Blogacause welcomes Ophbalance to the site.
Secondly, To better help bloggers here at blogacause our blogging platform has some pretty cool features which when properly implemented will get you noticed pretty much instantly by google and a few other big sites.
When your composing your blog entry you will see many check box options after the entry text section. Two of these are very important and should be checked every time you post an entry. The first is "Ping blog notification URLs?" and the second is "Send pingbacks to URLs?". The first option sends a ping/notification to the following rpc services: google, technorati, yahoo and blog.us, just to name a few, which will then add your new post to their indexes, which is how you get listed in their search engines returns. The second option scans your entry for URL's that you entered therein and sends a ping to those URL links.
With further regard to "Ping blog notification URLs?", We here at blogacause have already entered many of the most popular and important rpc addresses for you and in general when we find one that is beneficial to our bloggers we will also add it to everyones settings. If you find one that you think our other bloggers would want then please do email it to our admin. You can see the list in Weblog Settings|Properties section of your admin.
If your entry is a response to a post by someone on a different site you should copy and paste their entry's trackback URL into the "Blog trackback URLs" text area below the entry text section. This sends a ping notification to that blogger that you responded to his post.
You should always include a date under the "Blog entry publish date and time
MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss)" section of a blog post entry. You do not have to include a time entry.
Finally, and probably most importantly, under the Weblog Settings|Properties section of your admin there is a setting called "Use dynamic URLs?" found in the General settings. DO NOT check the box for that property as this will cause you to not be able to login to your account, at which point you will have to email the site admin and ask me to undo the setting.
I hope these pointers help, if you have questions please feel free to post them under the comments section for this entry.
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