the Blogoholic

If you have ever dropped by the DigitalPoint forums, you’ll probably see over a dozen members asking how to get their sites indexed in Google. You know what I do when I see those questions? I laugh.

Countless webmasters try as hard as they can to get there sites indexed in Google, and fail. They spend hours and hours reading useless blog posts discussing the topic, yet they continue to fail at getting their sites indexed in Google.

What if I told you there was a way to get your latest blog post indexed in Google in less than 5 minutes? Yes, you heard me, less than 5 minutes. In fact, this method is so powerful that I’m having second thoughts about releasing it to the general public to protect it from being saturated and used for the wrong purposes.

Fine, I’ll tell you how to do it. Here’s how to get your site indexed in Google in less than 5 minutes.

First, you need to install the Google XML Sitemaps plugin on your WordPress blog, make sure you set it up and build it for the first time.

Next, you’re going to have to update your blog’s ping list. Basically this is a list of web services to notify when you have published a new post on your blog. Here’s a pretty good one I use on all my blogs:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://ping.blogg.de/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
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.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2 euro.weblogs.com
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://blawg.org/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=AddLink
http://blogbib.com/submit.php
http://blogdigger.com/add.jsp
http://blogintro.com/?page_id=925
http://bloglines.com/register
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Weblogs/
http://dmoz.org/
http://feedshot.com/
http://findingblog.com/add_blog.php?cat=
http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/gpBlogLinkAdd.php
http://ngoid.sourceforge.net/sub_rss.php
http://ping.blogg.de/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://pingomatic.com/
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http://w.moreover.com/cgi-local/site/sourcesubmission.pl
http://www.5starblogs.com/Add_blog
http://www.anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php
http://www.answers.com/main/new_blogger.jsp
http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/
http://www.blog-directory-submit.com/RSS/l_op=Addrss.html
http://www.bloghub.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi
http://www.blogion.com/?p=submit
http://www.blogmighty.com/link_submit.php
http://www.blogsdominicanos.com/ping/
http://www.blogtree.com/
http://www.bloguniverse.com/radlinks/
http://www.blurtit.com/
http://www.bulletize.com/index.php
http://www.diarist.net/
http://www.feed24.com/?c=add
http://www.feedbomb.com/
http://www.feedboy.com/
http://www.feedsfarm.com/a.html
http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://www.findory.com/submit-blog/
http://www.flookie.net/
http://www.getblogs.com/
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newzalert.com/AuthorCenter/
http://www.pubsub.com/add_feed.php
http://www.rss-clipping.com/
http://www.rssmad.com/
http://www.technorati.com/ping.html
http://www.weblogalot.com/Ping/
http://www.xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php
http://www.zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://api.my.yahoo.com
http://api.my.yahoo.com/ping
http://bblog.comping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp
http://blogbot.dk
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp
http://blogmatcher.com
http://bulkfeeds.net
http://mod-pubsub.org
http://rcs.datashed.net
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com
http://www.a2b.cc
http://www.blogdigger.com
http://www.blogpeople.net
http://www.blogroots.com
http://www.blogshares.com
http://www.blogstreet.com
http://www.lasermemory.com
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/b…ter/ping.php
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com
http://www.popdex.com
http://www.snipsnap.org
http://www.weblogues.com
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC

You can change the ping list from the WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Writing. Just copy & paste the list above then save the changes.

Now go ahead and publish that post of yours, and soon as you do, head on over to Digg.com and submit a new story linking to your latest post. That’s it! Just sit back and relax while Google does the rest of the work!

Your site won’t always get the same results as mine did, but using this method, you should be able to get your site indexed within a cool 24 hours.

Pretty cool, eh? Now go on over to the DP forums to share what you just learned with the rest of your friends.

I am one of those people that spends every free minute trying to find a way to do things easier. By easier, I mean without me having to work.

One of the biggest concerns every webmaster has is driving traffic to his site. Marketers try everything, from blog commenting, to paid reviews, you name it!

But ultimately, all these methods require time and money. As well all know, time is money, so basically we’re throwing away money trying to promote our sites with little or no results. But no matter how many times they fail, they will continue beating the dead horse (or whatever that saying is).

Question is, are there really methods that are free that can bring hundreds of real visitors to your site with absolutely (fine, just a few minutes) work on your part?

Yes, I’m glad to say that there are!

Since this method involves StumbleUpon, please go sign up for an account right now if you don’t have one already. (I’m not even going to ask you to install Firefox since I expect you to have done that a long time ago.)

I’d like to explain how this method works, first. If you ever check out your site tracking tool, you’ll see a little area where you can see where all your visitors came from. This is called a referrer.

For example, let’s say A wrote a great article and B linked to him, when A checks his stats, he’ll see people coming from B’s site, so he’ll go and check it out to see what all the buzz is about.

How can you use this to your advantage? Well, if your site where to appear in thousands of site’s referrers, I believe that you would get quite a bit of traffic.

Here’s how we’re gonna do it:

First you’re going to need to download an autoclicker, just something simple that will click the mouse a certain amount of times each x seconds.

Then you’re going to have to install the RefControl addon for FireFox which lets you control what referrer shows up in site tracking tools when you visit a site.

It’s a pretty simple process to set up, just put in the site you’d like to drive the traffic to and move on to the next step.

Assuming you have the StumbleUpon toolbar installed, you want to position the mouse over the Stumble button and set the autoclicker to work before going to sleep. This way, you’ll be stumbling thousands of sites and appearing in all their logs with your site as their referrer.

Even if you only get a few hundred visitors per week using this method, that’s pretty good considering the fact you didn’t have to do anything.

But be careful, this is not a method you want to mess around with if you care for your reputation. Never try this with an established site of yours or anything that can be traced back to you.

Only do for sites that nobody can trace back to you.

Another idea is to use an affiliate page URL as the referrer instead of just using your site. I think you can take this method to a whole different level with a bit of creativity, just think about it.

Photo by mikebaird

You know, it always amazes my friends and family when I tell them that you can actually make money online! It just sounds bizarre to them for some reason, even after I try explaining it to them, they still don’t get it.

Ever since John Chow starting posting his $40,000 per month blogging income reports, everyone and their dog is jumping on to the “make money online” bandwagon. There are probably a myriad number of things they don’t understand about making money online, but in reality, there are only two things they (and everyone else) needs to know to start making money online…

If only they knew about these two secrets, making money online would seem much, much easier.

Want to know the two little known secrets about making money online? Here they are: If you want to make money online you have to… a) Work. b) Spend Money.

Wait, is it really that simple? I mean, come on, obviously if it was that simple then everyone would be making money online by now, right? Wrong.

You see, almost 100% of the people that want to make money online either don’t want to work for it or don’t want to spend any money.

They expect that the money will start rolling in while they watch another episode of Lost; they think that people will simply give them cash in return for absolutely nothing.

People, there is something you have to get into your minds if you seriously want to make money online! It takes money to make money, and you’re gonna have to work to do that! If you really bought into all those getrich-quick schemes working 1/hour a month, then you’ve got another thing coming!

I know a lot of people (myself included) that have the potential of making it big online but the only reason that isn’t happening is because no money is being spent nor is any sweat being put into it.

Reading about how to make money online on all those alleged “make money online” blogs isn’t going to help you make money online. You might think that reading about how to make money online will actually help you out in the long run by improving your skills, but trust me, the best way ever to do good on something is to actually do it.

Making money online isn’t rocket science, but it will require you to take action and start spending money.

There you have it, folks. Get out there and start taking action!

Photo by nattu

One of the most confusing things all new bloggers face is finding the perfect post schedule.

The main problem with them is that they all start out very enthusiastically, posting up to five times per day. The problem is, after they notice that nobody’s reading or commenting on their content, they simply stop.

Even when they slowly establish themselves in their niche, they still find it difficult to find the perfect posting schedule; many even go the length of thinking about the time they should post.

The secret is pretty simple, actually (and is one I’ve been using for a while now). I find that you should only post again once your first post has reached its Climax.

What on earth does that mean, eh? Well, you see, I like to think of the climax of a post as its tipping point – the time period where it has gotten the most exposure as possible.

For some, that may mean 50 comments and a thousand views, others may have lower expectations. But a general rule you should stick to when first starting out is 5 comments and 50 pageviews. That is probably the best time you should whip up another post and publish it.

Although this is the way I do things, it may not work as well for blogs in certain niches like technology, where events are constantly changing and people would like to stay updated 24/7.

This rule will ensure that both you and your readers will benefit - with you getting as much comments and pageviews as possible, while your readers enjoy your posts without feeling overwhelmed.

Have you ever noticed that there isn’t a single decent, FREE keyword tracker tool around the Internet? I was thinking about this a few days and just so happened to get an email from Terry Novak who was telling me about his latest project: RockinSEO.com.

I’ve got to say that I was really impressed when I signed up to the site and gave it a spin! The tracker was just so easy to use and it laid out the information in such an understandable fashion. All I had to do was add my site and put in the keywords I wanted to track and boom! Eye-candy charts out of nowhere!

Since the tool is still new, there’s still a lot of room for improvement, here are a few things I think Terry should add to the tool to take it to the next level:

• Ability to add/remove sites after signing up. (Right now, you can only add the site at signup, after that you’re stuck with it only.)
• More options to change in the user profile. (Password, email, notifications etc.)
• Notification when your keywords reach a certain page.
• An email to inform you when your keywords outrank your competition’s ones.
• To be able to hide/show sites when viewing the competition chart.

Those are the only ones I could think of right now, but be sure to add any if I missed some. Head on over to RockinSEO.com right now and start Rockin’! (Kudos to Terry for the great tagline.)