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I just registered a new domain name at NameCheap.com. The domain prices at NameCheap.com is $8.88 but if you enter the NameCheap.com coupon code found at this forum topic, you will get a discounted price at only $7.99. That’s the same price as RegisterFly.com.
I’m a bit fed up with RegisterFly.com. They have not refunded me my error charges even after multiple support email requests over a period of 1 week. I had no choice but to issue a chargeback request from my credit card company!
I just realised NameCheap.com also has a free “privacy protection” service when you register a domain. They also have an “instant name server” feature that allows you to add a domain to your web host immediately after purchasing a new domain. Maybe all web domain registrars allow this today? I am not so sure. The last time I purchased a domain at GoDaddy.com and other places, I had to wait 1 or 2 days to get my web domain “attached” to my web host.
I purchase domain names to appear unique when I am promoting affiliate programs in Google AdWords as Google does not allow duplicate domains names in their ad listings. Furthermore, it’s a good way to hide my affiliate ID from my competitors.
I will be posting more posts about affiliate program marketing at this blog from now on. I will create a network of “niche blogs” to cover different niche areas of internet marketing. I believe this would make my blogs more targeted, organized, and easier to digest for my readers.
Categories: Affiliate Program Marketing, Pay Per Click Search Engines | 4 Comments »
To me blog and ping is just a nice way of describing spam blogging. Technically we are blogging (or writing) to a blog with a link to a web site we want to get indexed by the search engines and pinging to the major blog directories to tell them to visit my blog.What we’re hoping for is that the search engine spiders will follow the links in our blogs to index our desired web site.
For example, When I publish a new post in this WordPress blog, the WordPress blogging script automatically notifies the following site update services:
1470.net/api/ping
www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
api.feedster.com/ping
api.moreover.com/RPC2
api.moreover.com/ping
api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
bitacoras.net/ping
blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
blogmatcher.com/u.php
www.blogoole.com/ping/
www.blogoon.net/ping/
www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
www.blogsnow.com/ping
www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
bulkfeeds.net/rpc
coreblog.org/ping/
www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
ping.amagle.com/
ping.bitacoras.com
ping.blo.gs/
ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
ping.feedburner.com
ping.myblog.jp
ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
ping.weblogs.se/
www.popdex.com/addsite.php
rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
rpc.pingomatic.com/
rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
topicexchange.com/RPC2
www.weblogues.com/RPC/
xping.pubsub.com/ping/
xmlrpc.blogg.de/
To put it in plain English, we’re telling these site update services “Hey! Take a look at my blog! I just updated it with new content!”. For more about this, see Update Services in the WordPress Codex.
In my next few posts on blogging and pinging, I will review some of my old blog and ping posts at VincentRich.com and tell you why my old way of blogging and pinging just doesn’t work anymore and why blog generators can change all that.
Categories: Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
Blog generators are simply software that generates blogs. What they all promise is to create lots of Blogspot.com blogs quickly and easily with as much automation as possible. In the near future, I believe we will see the next generation of blog generators that will create blogs on your own web server instead of using Google’s Blogspot.com.
Other features of blog generators include:
The generated blogs will be used for “blogging and pinging” in a bid to get your web sites indexed by the search engines as quickly as possible to increase web site traffic.
Categories: Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
I’ll kick start this with reviews of 3 blog generators in the market today. I did some research and I found:
Here’s how the reviews are going to be. I will look at the following criteria for judging the effectiveness of each software.
The first blog generator review will be Auto Blog Generator… Look out for that one because I am almost done reviewing it.
I’ll kick start this blog with reviews of 3 blog generators in the market today. I did some research and I found:
Here’s how the reviews are going to be. I will look at the following criteria for judging the effectiveness of each software.
The first blog generator review will be Auto Blog Generator… Look out for that one because I am almost done reviewing it.
Categories: Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
I recently deleted all my html files from my web site. I created WordPress pages instead. I find its easier to edit my pages with the WordPress 2.0 built in WYWISWG html editor rather than editing it with Dreamweaver and uploading the html files to my web server.
WordPress uses Apache’s mod_rewrite functionality to create pages. There are 2 types of pages as I call it. There are blog posts and pages. WordPress pages are not part of the blog archives. I customize the “permalink” of the blog posts to end with a “.html” filename. The cool thing is WordPress doesn’t actually creatre a real html file, it is simply telling the Apache web server that anytime someone requests for a html file, redirect that request to a php file that pulls data from the database. Too bad I haven’t found a way to create html files with the WordPress pages. I can do it with the blog posts by changing the “permalink” options.
How to create “page sections” and pages in WordPress?
Try clicking on any of my “About Me” section pages and you will see that it looks like there are files in the “/about/” folder. I did this by first creating a WordPress page with the page slug “about” and set my other pages to link to this “about” page as its page parent. That’s all!
What do I do about my existing HTML files?
I had 1 major concern when I was removing my html files. What if someone clicks on a link in the search engines for one of my html pages? Wouldn’t that bring them to a broken page on my site?
No worries! Simply use the Apache’s “301 redirect” to redirect my html pages to my new WordPress pages. WordPress uses the “.htaccess” file in the same folder as your WordPress installation to handle these redirect requests. Check out the screenshot on the left. Simply add the 301 redirect code below the existing WordPress code in the “.htaccess” file and its done!
Categories: Blog Updates, Blogging, Search Engine Optimization, Web Development | 3 Comments »
I’ve been using RegisterFly for quite some time now. I like their cheap $6.99 - $7.99 .com and $1.79 - $1.99 .info domain prices with free privacy protection of my personal information.
But lately I have been experiencing some problems with their registration system. It seems like whenever a domain registration is unsuccessful, my credit card still gets charged. In fact, this month I had 5 error charges to my credit card for domain name purchases that screwed up.
It takes a lot of time to report this to the support staff to get this rectified. Sometimes their web site takes a long time to load and in some cases in doesn’t load at all. RegisterFly is now an ICANN accredited registrar and it is registering domains on its own credentials. I think that is why their system is pretty screwed up now. 5 error charges in February 2006 is something new.
I usually purchase .info domains to create landing pages / redirection pages for promoting affiliate programs with Google AdWords. I also have a bunch of .info domains for the building of Google AdSense web sites. The best thing about RegisterFly is that once I purchase my domain name, I can literally use it straight away. Other domain registrars I used in the past made me wait at least 1 - 2 days.
What that means is I could research a particular niche to promote an affiliate program or build a Google AdSense site, research keywords, purchase a domain name, and upload my files to the web host within the same day.
I will continue to use them until I find another domain registrar with the same prices and registration turnaround time as RegisterFly. I really hope they clean up this mess as soon as possible.
Categories: Google AdSense, Pay Per Click Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
Last year I struggled with the blog and ping method. Check out my blog and ping posts of 2005. I purchased a couple of ebooks on “how to make money with Google AdSense” but none of them addressed this blog and ping issue.
Google got smart and if you are doing blog and ping the old way, chances are its not going to get you anywhere. The old way was using a blog and ping automation software and blasting links of your desired web site a blogspot.com blog. You have 1 blog with 100s of links to 1 web site. I believe Google discovered this disturbing trend of “spam blogs” on their network and they refused to follow the links on the blogs. Therefore, blog and ping using this method couldn’t work anymore.
I spent some time doing more research. I lurked around some internet marketing forums hoping to get some ideas on how to make this blog and ping method work again. Without blogging and pinging, all the Google AdSense systems that teach you to use “content generation software” can’t really work because you don’t have enough pages indexed.
Yes you can exchange links, purchase links, create press releases etc but it takes an awful amount of time and/or money. Furthermore, who would want to link to junk site and publish a press release about your junk site?
I found a solution to this blog and ping problem…
Check out Rick Butt’s software burner tutorial. This was what I was trying to do last year. Rick actually did one more thing I didn’t think of.
This is probably a more polite way of using blogspot.com for blogging and pinging. Let’s get real. Blog and ping is just a nice term for blog spamming. In my next post, I will introduce you guys a new tool that can automate the blog and ping process to the next level.
Categories: Google AdSense, Search Engine Optimization | 2 Comments »