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Hi Guys,

it’s gone a bit quiet on the test blog this week. There were a couple of minor changes with one of the programs adding one or two extra backlinks.

I have also added another tool to the mix.

I have been a subscriber to Traffic-Bug since the early days, stumbling across it during the 2009 Thirty Day Challenge.

But, because of the other tools I was using, such as Bookmarking Demon 5 etc, I sort of lost interest in it.

But the subscription was still there so I decided to see how it performs.   I know that as an indexing tool it is excellent, but I’ve never tested to quality or quantity of the backlinks it produces.

I have added two pages to the test blog, one to test the traffic-bug submitter and the other to test the RSS submitter side of the program and have set the program onto aggressive, which essentially means that it will drop lots of backlinks in a short space of time.

Anyway, let’s have a look at the figures from last week. Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, maybe that’s a slight exageration, but just look around, blogs are sloping off, into long forgotten, dark corners of the web and just fading out of existence at an astronomicalrate. Henceforth we can refer to these as Suicidal Blogs!

Why?

Well, lets’s face it, blog writers (me included) are fickle, all we care about is becoming popular (and rich   ).

If the blog they write doesn’t reap traffic in the the way they expect it to, they tend to neglect it, sometimes to the point it can’t Read the rest of this entry »

There are times when you need to include a video on your site.  Now while it is simple enough to embed a Youtube video onto your page sometimes the video you want isn’t on youtube, or maybe it’s one of your own videos that your don’t want to make available to casual browsers.

That’s when FLV plugin from Jeroen comes in handy.

You just download and activate the plugin, then insert a simple shortcode wherever you want the video to appear.

This plugin uses one universal, standard tag style:

• url – the URL of the FLV file you want to embed, the path can either be site-relative or absolute
• width – width of the FLV movie
• height – height of the FLV movie

Jeroen’s FLV Player supports poster frame, ie. a front cover for the video.  This can be any image you want and can even be uploaded to a different location. By default the poster frame is set to off, you turn it on via the options in the plugin settings.

Without poster frame
The poster frame feature is turned off by default.

Example input shortcode:

With poster frame
In order to use this poster frame feature, you will need to turn it on via options. Once turned on, the player will look for preview image that share the same filename as the embedded FLV file. For example, if your embedded FLV file is “demo.flv”, the player will display “demo.jpg” as preview image. By default, the filetype of preview image is “jpg”, but this can be changed via options.

Example input shortcode: (Exactly the same as without poster frame!

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There will come a time soon, when you find yourself creating 3, 4 or maybe more blogs all targetting keywords in the same niche, particularly if you are making money with the Commission Ritual methods.

Because WordPress doesn’t advertise the fact that it can export as well as import blogroll links you may well find yourself spending hour after hour copying and pasting links from one blog to the next and then again to the next and so on.

But it doesn’t have to be like that.

There are a couple of plugins which do an excellent job of exporting links.

The first is called Blogroll OPML Export and was suggested to me by Rochelle at Niche Store Strategies Blog.

After downloading, installing and activating the plugin you are prompted to export your blogroll links to a text file (with .opml extension – NOT .txt)

Then you go to your new blog and click on tools/import/blogroll and the plugin will import your blogroll and let you choose which category to place them in.

The second, and my preferred plugin is called ‘Import Blogroll With Categories‘. Not a particularly inspiring name, but the plugin does EXACTLY what it say on the can!

I think it is easier to use as well.

Install the plugin on both blogs.  One the blog which has links, from the links menu click export. You will be presented with a html page of your links in opml format. Highlight and copy the url.

Next, on your new blog, from the links menu click, import.  One the screen that open up paste in the url you copied and hit enter.  Your links are now all imported and categorised.

There are lots of options with this plugin such as creating categories or importing from a saved file etc etc.  But for me it works perfectly out of the box.

Dave….

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If you’re like me then you write a post, publish it and then notice a stupid error in it (usually spelling or grammer for me). So you go back into the post, edit it and re-publish… only to notice another error. And so on until you are happy that the post is correct and a thing of beauty worthy of publication.

Now this quest for perfection is admirable and I’m sure your readers appreciate it.

Unfortunately, because of the way WordPress is setup you may be being punished.

When you publish a post or page WP sends out a ping via RPC pingomatic, this alerts various pinging services that you have made a change and it may be worthwhile sending in the ‘bots to have a look.

But, and here’s the problem for perfectionists, every time you edit – you ping, and some of the services take a very dim view of excessive pinging and will ban your site.

Here is where Max Blog Press Ping Optimizer shines.

You can set this plugin to limit excessive pinging to however many you believe you can get away with in a set period of time. I always use an MBP (Max Blog Press) setting of 1 ping in 60 minutes, although I can’t really tell you why I chose those settings, other than they just feel right!

In addition, you can import your own list of pinging sites. Now I know that a lot of people think that RPC Pingomatic is adequate… but do you want to settle for adequate? These are the pinging services that I use, if you know of anymore then please comment and let me know.

(If you read this in the next hour – please be patient, I don’t have my list with me, but will post it as soon as I get back to my office – I promise   )

Update: I’m back now (and have edited some of the typos that are fast becoming features of my posts!)

Here is my list of ping sites. If you use any that are not listed then please post a comment and tell us.

Thanks.

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogpeople.net/ping
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.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://feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://hamo-search.com/ping.php
http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://ping.blogoon.net/
http://ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2
http://ping.fc2.com/
http://ping.feedburner.com/
http://ping.kutsulog.net/
http://ping.myblog.jp/
http://ping.namaan.net/rpc
http://ping.snap.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.wordblog.de/
http://r.hatena.ne.jp/rpc
http://rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.technorati.jp/rpc/ping
http://rpc.twingly.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://wasalive.com/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

Dave….

I posted a link to a free download yesterday of a new link getting plugin called Deep Linking Engine.

This is being released as an introduction to Auto Content Cash, a new fully automatic blogging system from Brian G Johnson and Alex Goad.

However…

There was have been a few people struggling with the settup of the plugin. So Brian has kindly created a video to show exactly how to set up Deep Linking Engine and how to use it most effectively.

So here it is: The Deep linking engine help video.

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