Feb. 27th 2008
I would be willing to bet that your still sick and tired of the continuous stream of ads that come your way every time you jump online to search the internet for something. If this is so, then I‘m most certain that you may be interested in learning more about the various types of Ad Blocks that will prevent this atrocity from happening time after time. Your computer will undoubtedly run faster without all of those ads taking up your precious time and you will have more privacy regarding where it is that you surf on the internet.
Most Ad Blocks work by blocking out the host files. Others work by using a list of host names. You can choose to ad new names to the list and/or take others off. You would continue to get ads from hosts that are not on your blocked list. Ad Blockers are a great way to eliminate the amount of ads you receive on your computer. This will make your computer work faster as well as protect your privacy more. It makes too much sense, huh?
Feb. 25th 2008
The easiest way to increase trackbacks is to frequently post your blogs. If you post frequently (2-3 times a week), people will have quite a few newer posts that they can trackback. However, it is important to make sure that your posts are of a good quality and original content. Quality blog posts are those that people can relate to and are easy to read.
If you post a long boring rant, there are those people who probably won’t want to trackback that sort of stuff. But if you post a decent sized rant that is entertaining (and that people are likely to agree with), you just might get trackbacked.
The number of trackbacks you get totally depends on the number of visitors your blog receives and how frequently you are able to make quality posts. If you’ve got a good amount of visitors and write good blog posts, you’ll get trackbacks.
Trackbacks are a wonderful thing for every blog. You are able to know when your blog posting has been posted about at another blog, plus you potentially of increased web traffic. It’s a win-win situation for you and you!
Feb. 22nd 2008
The easy answer to this question is that trackbacks are important because they increase the awareness of your blog. Trackbacks also make a blog seem much more credible. After all, people have to think that your posts are good enough to be trackbacked.
Anytime a person makes a trackback on your blog, they make a post on their own blog about your blog. This, in turn, lets their readers know about your blog. Chances are, their readers will want to visit your blog to see what the big deal is. If they see something on your blog that they like, they’ll keep coming back for more, which means you’ll have a whole new fanbase of readers. That means more traffic for your blog.
Can you imagine what would happen if 5 different bloggers trackbacked a post on your blog? Depending on how popular their blog is, that’s potentially as much as hundreds of new readers for your blog! Pretty incredible, right?
Also, every trackback made, assuming it is a legitimate one (and some trackbacks are spam, especially if they are there only to link to another site) adds credibility to your blog. Blogs with high amounts of trackbacks look credible because lots of people like the posts enough to trackback them.
Feb. 17th 2008
The concept of trackbacks is a little bit hard to explain. So we’ll use an example to explain this in the best way possible.
OK, lets say you see a great blog post on another person’s blog and want to link to to your own blog. You could do this the old-fashioned way by manually putting a link on your site to that blog. However, if you do it this way, the person whose blog post you are linking to won’t know that you are linking to them unless you tell them.
This is where trackbacks come in. A trackback is a program which will notify the owner of a blog when one of their posts has been linked to at another blog.
Feb. 13th 2008
If you’re a blogger, chances are you’ve heard of trackbacks. Most likely, you probably don’t know what these are and what they have to do with your blog. That’s allright, as most people don’t quite understand how trackbacks work and why they are useful for a blog. In the upcoming blogs, we’re going to go over trackbacks—what they are, how they work, why they are important to blog traffic, and how to get more trackbacks. After some reading, you’ll know practically everything there is to know about trackbacks.
Trackbacks are a wonderful thing for every blog. You are able to know when your blog posting has been posted at another blog, plus you potentially gain more visitors. It’s a win-win situation for you!
Feb. 12th 2008
Thats a really good question. The answer is… there are several different online pinging services available from which you can use to ping your blog. If you like, we can go over some of them right now.
Weblogs.com is probably the most well-known pinging service. Weblogs.com monitors sites for updates and then pings whenever there is an update to report. Virtually every blog software is available to use Weblogs.
Another popular pinging service being offered by Yahoo has a built-in integration with movable type and other tools. One cool thing about this service is that it offers the ability to give out updates via Instant Messaging services like AOL and ICQ. It is a direct pinging service, so those who sign up for subscriptions to your blog will be sent an email anytime your blog is updated.
Blogrolling allows its bloggers to manage their blogrolls (updates) through a web-based interface. Recently updated blogs are also highlighted on Blogrolling’s web site. Data is automatically retrieved from other sites like blogger.com and weblogs.com every 5 minutes. Often times your blog is already being pinged by Blogrolling, so you might not have to sign up for it. Search on the site first for your URL before signing it up.
Available at http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping, Technorati is another service that pings blogs. It gets its data from a variety of places and is definitely a site you should go to for blog pinging.
These are just 4 of the many different blog pinging services available. A quick search on Yahoo or Google will reveal many other possible blog pinging services to use for your blog. It is best to sign up for as many as you possibly can to ensure that your blog is well-pinged. A well-pinged blog will definitely help your blog attract more visitors. So sign up for as many as possible and watch your blog traffic increase.
Pinging tells people when your blog is updated. It is an incredibly useful, and easy to sign up for service, so be sure to sign your blog up for pinging!
Feb. 11th 2008
Pinging tells other people that there is a new blog posting available for them to read. As you might be thinking, this is a very useful way to help out your blog. Those who are loyal followers of your blog will see the ping and will want to revisit your blog again and again. Those who haven’t read your blog before at all will see the ping and might think “hey, there’s a new blog I haven’t been to before, I think I’ll check it out.” Pinging helps to increase your traffic because it tells people when your blog is updated.
Those who visit sites with pinging services will usually see this information in the form of a scroll on the left side, right side, or top of the page. The scroll is usually in XML format and normally includes the title and URL of your blog, as well as the date and time of the update. This can really end up being a really useful tool for you to have in your toolbox of things that help the word get out that your new blog posting is here and ready for everyone to read.
Feb. 9th 2008
So, now we get to what pinging is. When a blog is pinged, the ping basically sends a signal to a web blog tracking system telling it that the blog has recently been updated. Thus, pinging is the process of telling tracking services that a site has been updated. That seems fairly simple to understand, right?
So how does pinging work? I’m glad you asked. Well, a ping service regularly scans blogs for updates. Whenever there is a new update for a particular blog, it is reported back to the pinging service’s site. You can sort of think of ping services as being just like search engine spiders—both scan sites looking for information, and both report that information back to their specific site. The difference is, a ping service only reports back new blog posts. Doesn’t it feel good to learn?
Feb. 8th 2008
If you’re a blogger or know somebody who blogs a lot, its possible you may have constantly heard about pinging. You might have always wondered to yourself, “what does that mean exactly?” Well, it’s a good thing you have stumbled on to this blog then.
There are many bloggers who may have been blogging for months and not all of them would be able to tell you what in the world ‘pinging’ is for. Some of them may have heard about it and think they know exactly what it means, but do they really?
In another blog, we will explain exactly what pinging is, how it can help your blog, and what the best pinging services are. After you’ve read more, you’ll know exactly how to use pinging to make your blog more popular than you ever imagined.
To read on to the next section, go here.
