Category: rss

Displaying CaRP RSS feeds in WordPress Blogs looks easy now… here’s an Amazon feed for [carpwp:amazon{Internet Marketing}][/carpwp]

Another thing I’ve done to this website/blog is I’ve found a mob that have put together a live RSS feed that displays in HTML… that’s it in the sidebar on the right. About 4 or 5 news articles. I don’t know how often they update the articles as yet, but it’ll do until I find something better.

They do have a few links that go with the feed, but it’s a small price to pay if the feeds refresh every few days.

This version of WordPress I’m using has my “categories” RSS linked if you want to follow them without visiting all the time. For instance, if you just want my “$100’s a day” news, copy the RSS address from the little orange RSS tag thingumyjig in the “Categories” menu, and enter it into your feed reader. Then whenever I add a new article here to do with the Challenge, it will display in your feed reader… too kewl.

Speaking of the Challenge, it’s time for an update… later. I’ve got to get on a conference right now.

My N0. 1 task tomorrow is to set-up RSS feeds into all my blogs. I’ve got Carp Evolution installed on most of the web pages of Training dog Breeds, but have never actually got around to putting it on my blogs yet… but it is definitely time. I’ve got to do something to keep the front page content fresh, and I think RSS feeds should do the trick.

I will do a bit of searching first to see if many others are doing this, and whether they’re using Carp.

With the starting of yet another blog today (on the first of my $100 a day challenge sites) it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep posting to the blogs on a regular basis. Damned blogs are fun at first, but then they become just another chore after a while.

The theme for this blog has RSS feeds going out for each category, so maybe I’ll start by contacting the guy who made this template, and see what he’s done to bring feeds into his blogs, if anything.

You’d think if he goes to the trouble to set up outgoing feeds for his blog, that he’d also have incoming feeds.

Just read Andy Williams newsletter, and as usual it contains a feast of information. His wife is getting great results since adding RSS to her website. Like her, my traffic has increased dramatically in the last month and a bit.

When I added RSS to Training Dog Breeds, I saw a significant increase in traffic, but adding a blog has sky rocketed my stats. This is on a site with only about 45 content pages… I’m getting 400 visits (280 uniques) and over 3,000 page views daily (4,080 on 30th Dec), according to AweStats.

I don’t use Webalizer, because the figures just don’t look right to me… sure they look great, but somehow they don’t make sense.

Attracting Spiders and Bots

As far as search engine optimization - SEO - is concerned, the main purpose of your blog is to get the search engine’s spiders and bots to your website. All you need to do to accomplish that, is to point them in the right direction… they are like sheep, they go where you push them.

They don’t need a focused theme blog to follow a URL to your site, all they need is to find your URL. Like a road sign in the middle of nowhere, if it points to your home, and someone is lost and trying to find your home, if you have a sign out there and they find it, they’ll turn up on your doorstep.

When I started blogging and pinging last July, I was writing articles, or copying parts of my website pages, and pasting them into my blog. Then I would ping my myYahoo account, where I had added my .blogger RSS feed to. It was very time consuming, complicated and frankly it was becoming a pain in the butt… a real chore. However, it was working, and I was getting an increase in traffic.

Then one day almost 4 weeks ago, only 1 week after I had installed a WordPress blog at Training Dog Breeds, I made a change my blog. I added a links menu in the sidebar, which included a link to a brand new page on my website… alsatian dog … and you wouldn’t believe it, but that page was visited by ½ a dozen blog search engines immediately, with Googlebot arriving within 20 minutes.

Now that got me to thinking.

The SE spiders and Bots are looking for only one thing really, links.

I had been posting to my blog every day, so the search engines were visiting every day, and when I posted that brand new URL in my sidebar, they followed it straight to my website. I got Yahoo traffic from that page the next day, and Google traffic the day after that.

So, I don’t blog and ping any more. Manually Blogging and Pinging is already out of date, as far as SEO is concerned.

WordPress pings 45 search engines automatically for me as soon as I click publish. Even with only Pingomatic, you are pinging about a dozen feed sites as soon as you hit the publish button.

With WordPress if you wanted to ping 20 times a day, all you need do is go to your blog and edit one post, change a punctuation mark, anything really. Then, if you have set it up to ping, WordPress does it automatically as soon as you click publish.

Get External Links To Your Site

The second purpose of a blog is to get links, so as to improve your websites page rank… in this case you would have a dedicated blog as a page on each website. I use WordPress, but any blogging software will do, if it allows you to automatically ping. You can use Pingomatic if your Blog program won’t ping for you.

How it works:

Your blog posts need to be of interest to other people, who then link to your Blog… and bloggers link to blogs without even thinking, if the subject or article interests them!