I’ve been asking loads of questions about blogging and pinging at The AdSense School. I’m a Beta member at The AdSense School membership site. Its a place for people to learn how to make money with Google AdSense. The site is still in Beta so there isn’t much valuable content yet.

According the owner of The AdSense School, Blogging and pinging doesn’t work with BlogSpot.com anymore. I’ve been trying to get it to work for some time now. I have a few Traffic Equalizer pages indexed but not all of them (200+). Its been almost 2 weeks now and I can’t see it happening anytime soon.

The weird thing is the search engine spiders did visit my web site but they simply do not wish to index my pages. I believe they got smarter now since so many people are spamming their blogspot.com blogs with junk content in a bid to get the search engine spiders to visit the links in those posts.

Install WordPress in the Root Folder of Your Site?

I’ve been doing some research and some people recommend installing WordPress in the root folder of your web site. I first read about this in the AdSense Empire ebook. I did that for 1 web site and I have since “discarded” it. It didn’t work out well for me because I had only 1 page indexed in over a month! The AdSense Empire ebook says that I have to add articles to my blog everyday and I did that with a free WordPress plugin. For more than 7 days, the plugin blogged 1 article for me everyday. If you’ve used WordPress before, you will know that WordPress can help you ping to a lot RSS directories. So that solves the pinging part of the blog and ping process.

I’m going to do that for my next site to see how it goes. This time I am going to use an auto blogger that submits RSS feed content to my blogs automatically. I am shopping around for a software to do this. I won’t be adding outrageous amounts of content to my blogs per day. Just 1 post a day will do with the latest news on my web site’s topic so that it looks “real”. I’m going to call the RSS feed content “Latest News on ….”.

I’ve seen a couple of RSS auto bloggers in the market:

1. Blog To Rank - $127
2. RSS To Blog - $247
3. Blog Submitter Pro - $147

I bought Blog Submitter Pro on Sunday and I am still testing it. This software doesn’t blog to your blog but it blogs to other people’s blogs. What it does is it helps you automate the submission of comments to a random list of BlogSpot.com blogs. I will review this software in great detail once I have used it for about a week to document my results. To be brutally honest, I think its as bad as blogging and pinging because its spamming. But you get loads of incoming links from all the blogs you submit to. Maybe that will help your web site’s rankings? I don’t know for sure because I might get into trouble for spamming their blogs!

There is another software that I believe will be useful for getting your web site indexed. Its called the RSS Indexer. The RSS Indexer creates an RSS feed of all your pages on your web site and submits them to RSS directories for you everyday. I still do not know how the software works because I haven’t used it yet but it does look like a “white hat” SEO technique. I personally consider blogging and pinging and Traffic Equalizer generated pages a “black hat” SEO technique simply because you’re spamming the internet with junk. I feel the RSS auto bloggers are OK because they add real content to your blogs.

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