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Blog Tip: Protect Your Content From Splogs

By admin • August 8th, 2008 • Blog Tips & Tricks

What’s a Splog?

A splog or “spam blog” is a blog that steals content from other web sites, then aggregates and republishes all or some of the content on its own blog.

Splogs are created to promote and increase search engine ranking of affiliated web sites, and/or to make money from ads shown on the splog. Typically splogs are automated, but they can also be manual copy & paste.

Usually Spam Blogs (Splogs) use automatically posts from RSS Feeds using wordpress plugins. Sploggers “splog” to make money and save time taking advantage of the hard work done by thousands of authors and professionals at almost no cost.

I could give some examples of Wordpress Plugins… but I’ll not teach here how to make a Splog!

Blog Tip: 2 ways to Protect Your Content From Splogs:

1. Make use of all Feedburner options.
Feedburner allows you to offer only a short summary of your hyperlink-free content and direct your subscribers to your Web site for the rest of the story.
This is a great way to protect your content from spam blogs.

To activate this function login to your Feedburner account, go to Optimize and find Summary Burner in your sidebar:

And configure your summary details:

2. Use the RSS Footer Wordpress Plugin
Another way to protect your Blog content is to use the RSS Footer Wordpress plugin which allows you to add a line of content to the end of your RSS feed articles.

Download the Plugin

Copy `rss-footer.php` to the plugins directory of your blog.
Enable the plugin in your admin panel.
An options panel will appear under Options.
Choose the line you want to add.

You can see this plugin effect in my Feed… it look like this:

And that’s all for today!

Enjoy!

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Wordpress Tips: List of Pinging Services

By admin • August 1st, 2008 • Blog Tips & Tricks, Wordpress Tips

Today I would like to share the Pinging List I use on my Wordpress Blog.

If you are just starting in Wordpress world you may be asking… “What the hell is Pinging?”

Ping services allow you to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated. The bigger your ping list the higher the chances of receiving traffic from those sources, so check out the list below and include it on your blog.

In Wordpress you can modify your ping list on:
Control Panel > Options > Writing

Copy Past this list and Click Update.

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com/
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://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.twingly.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogsdominicanos.com/ping/
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://www.xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

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By admin • July 30th, 2008 • Monetize Your Blog

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Starting a Blog?

By admin • July 21st, 2008 • Blog Tips & Tricks

The true fact is there are so many blogs and web sites about blogs on the net, it can be so hard and sometimes even impossible to create your blogging web site stand out from all of the others.

If you are starting up a new web site that is targeted at bloggers or even if you are just looking to make your existing blog more interesting and attractive, the only way for creating a blog that will grasp other people interest, and the attention of the blogging community is finding a good subject for your blog, and what is called today “niche”. You have to love the niche you will write about, because this is the way to success, when you write something you like and love, then it should be the best that you can take out from yourself.

If you can help people to learn about something that they need or want to learn, in a self unique and special way, that they can’t find anywhere else, you’ll be able to build a big crowd of readers.

When you decide on a subject for your blog and discovered a niche that you want to write about, you will still have a lot of work to do, but at least you know where you are starting, and that is just great!

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