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.

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.