February 9, 2012

Blog And Ping

What is it and how can it help you?

Blogs and ping are the most frequently used words in the IT sector today.

These two words are on everyone’s lips today. So why are blogs and pinging getting so much importance today? Blogs and pinging can get you very good profits in the wrong run. So what exactly are blogs and pinging?

A blog is a website where members can discuss online their views on a particular topic. There are some blogs that are general in nature where people can discuss anything and there are blogs on which you can discuss only on a particular topic. However it is advisable that when you start a blog it should not be generalized but it should be opened on a particular topic. For example instead of starting a blog on the Information Technology you can start a blog only on Microsoft Technologies. There are a lot of blog softwares that you can use on your server and then run it independently.

Blogs are increasingly used for SEO marketing. Through blogs you can advertise your internet site on the blogs. Blog and ping is a process through which you can post a snippet of information from your site to a blog to increase your SEO. When you post snippets of your website information on the blog, search engine sites like Google and Yahoo will find it more easily. The search engine will be able to track your site more easily due to spidering and indexing. You can blog and ping only very important information from your site and not all information. You can also rent links to your site which makes the work of spidering easier for search engines. There were many aggressive marketers before who used to blog and ping all their web pages and that also repeatedly. As a result the search sites termed the individuals spammers and then banned their websites from ranking.

So how is blog and ping done successfully?

The tasks can be easily done with the help of softwares like WordPress and RSS to Blog. Using these softwares you can submit your links to over 50 blog directories at a click of a button. You can download WordPress and RSS to Blog and then install them on your computer. Once you have installed the programs on your computer you should them customize them according to your needs. Then you should create a list of links from your site that will use in the blog sites. You can do this automatically using RSS to Blog. You can save these links for future use also so that you don’t have to enter the list of links all over again. You also have the ability to add more data to RSS to Blog from external sources. The list of blog entries are automatically modified when you make more entries.

Hence we see that blog and ping are one of the best methods to make your website more famous in the search engines. You can use them and also modify their configuration according to your needs.

WordPress Templates hard to understand?

Do you find wordpress is difficult to modify?

With the recent changes to wordpress version 3.0 there are even more challenges for the wordpress enthusiast.

Now with patches, and the new menu system, it creates an entire new world of product and SEO opportunities.

In fact, there have now been updates and patches, so now the official version is 3.0.1

My wife, (I love you sweetie) Cannot use a remote control without some help, ) this is part of how you learn and how your mind works, some people have a natural ability to use electronics.

I know how that sounds, but she can read and understand, the anatomical structure, of a molecule, but she can’t post to word press or even figure out how to log in.

I know, it seems strange, right, someone smart enough to learn bio chemistry, but can figure out word press.

One of the issues when dealing with wordpress is that it seems to confuse people.

Often using WordPress software is hard to get started, but it is the technical side of the process, installing WordPress templates and themes, that can really create a learning curve.

There is a lot to understand and the list is Big…
Starting with code, PHP, CSS and other confusing abbreviations that at first may not fit into your verbal lexicon.

This is unfortunate, as creating a WordPress blog can make a huge impact on web pages are indexed by the search engines,

mostly because google loves organization, yes you heard right, get organized if you really want that Google love squeeze,

So what is the deal, with using such a complicated method of rendering templates, and what is rendering anyway.

I thought that was all about fat or something, well, technically yes, but rendering or composing, or better yet, parsing, in techie speak, is all part of the job for the wordpress enthusiast.

here is the basic structure, notice the word (basic)

  • index.php – this is the starting point or main template file for your WordPress blog
  • header.php – the header template Duh
  • footer.php – the footer template
  • page.php – for creating WordPress pages  (one of the most overlooked and important)
  • single.php – for creating WordPress posts
  • sidebar.php – the WordPress blog page navigation  (not entirely accurate) but a good start.
  • style.css – the stylesheet that makes up the layout for your WordPress blog.  (huge, I mean gargantuan)

Ok, now you can see a little into this strange and unusual world we call the wordpress template system.

But hey you know what you dont have to do any of this stuff you can get tons of themes free, in fact we have a place too, yes, follow the yellow brick road…

or just click here.

Get themes, and more, no fee involved, its really easy…

But you know it is really hard to find that perfect theme anyway and understanding how the templating system works can help you.

Using templates, to create and generate more from your wordpress website.

Did you know you can use PHP to change up the look of pages, in your wordpress blog.

so check back soon because we are going down the rabbit, hole…