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What Good is an "Interface"?

I just read over my previous post and realized that unless you are already familiar with posting to a number of blogs, it is probably not clear what I am talking about.

The problem is this: you have access to a number of blogs - either ones you have created yourself, or others you are allowed to post to - and you need an efficient way of posting to them. Normally this involves actually going to the blog, logging in, posting, and then logging out.

But what if you want to post to 25 or 50 different blogs, as is the case with the Link Builder Network? This becomes a very time consuming process. Is there a way to create blog posts and just "send" them to the blog?

Yes, there are several programs that will do this, and I've mentioned 4 of them in the previous post. The one we created for our own set of blogs is called "Blogging Central", and you can have access to it by joining the Link Builder Network.

Different Remote Blogging Interfaces

We've been testing our new remote blogging interface for the Link Builder Network called Blogging Central, and while doing that I decided to enumerate some of the alternative remote blogging interfaces I am aware of. These include some very interesting and quite powerful programs. Here are the ones I've looked at:

Windows Live Writer - This is a slick program from Microsoft that interfaces with many different blogging platforms including Wordpress and b2Evolution - the two I am most interested in. I haven't actually tested it with other platforms such as blogger.com, but I am assuming it will work. For better or worse it lets you create complex posts that include tables and css elements. As with some others, this program requires you to individually configure each blog account you want to access. When you are dealing with more than 50 accounts, as in the case of the Link Builder Network, this can be a royal pain.

Scribfire for Firefox - Scribefire is a Firefox plugin. In other words, it only works with the Firefox browser. Scribefire is a very slick way to interface with many different types of blogs - including Wordpress, Blogger, Moveable Type, and a few others - but not b2evolution. It lets you create relatively complicated post layouts using tables and images, and it even lets you edit previously created posts. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to setup your logins. You will have to manually enter more than 50 blog logins for the Link Builder Network. And you will have to do that for each computer you want to use it with.

w.Bloggar - This is another free program that has been around for a while and has gone through a number of versions. It is currently in version 4.03, so you can be sure it is fairly stable. This program will interface with all our Wordpress and b2evolution blogs. It takes a bit of getting used to, and you must set it up for each of the blogs, but once set up it is quite efficient. We have used w.Bloggar for approximately 12 months to make posts for clients, so we know it is reliable. It is a bit more restricted on the formatting side - no tables, for instance - but this is probably a good thing. You can also load all your account logins and passwords by entering them into am .xml file and loading them all at once - a major time saver to be sure.

There are other programs like these, but I am not familiar with them.

The advantage of Blogging Central is that it is a dedicated system designed especially for posting to the Link Builder Network Wordpress blogs. Once in the system there is no need to login to each blog, and you can send the same post to as many as 4 blogs at once.

I will have a Blogging Central video up very soon.

Special Link Building Program

Just put the finishing touches on New Power Links Plus. This program combines our link building plan called New Power Links with our self-serve blogging platform called The Link Builder Network - access to more than 50 blogs. Together these two programs cost $108, but this combined program is selling for just $69 - a savings of almost 40% every month.

PLUS you get something that is not normally included in a Link Builder Network membership - more than 100 professionally pre-written blog posts written especially for your website. These can be used for posting to the Link Builder Network blogs.

Learn more about New Power Links Plus.

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How to Get Your Website Indexed Fast
May 9, 2006 - Linknet Internet News

How to Get Your Website Indexed FastMay 9, 2006 - Linknet Internet - Internet News, Internet Articles

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How to Get Your Website Indexed Fastby Rick Hendershot

Most people who are new to website building have very little idea how or why it is important to get their website indexed by the major search engines. What we mean by "indexing" is simply the process by which the major search engines find a website, analyse its content, and enter a summary into their database so the site becomes eligible to be listed when people search for that kind of information.

One of the most pervasive bits of misinformation concerning the indexing process is that you should "submit" your site to the search engines on a regular basis. According to people who sell this bogus service, the search engines spend their day waiting for website "submissions", which, once received, they obligingly go look at and then index, presumably with no concern for the quality of the site in question.

But the fact is, search engines are very busy little beavers. They are not sitting around waiting for submissions. On the contrary, they are constantly out there scouring the web so they can keep the most up to date database possible.

In many cases new information gets recognized by the major search engines within hours of being posted. Take news sites, for instance. In order to keep abreast of breaking news, and to make their news services relevant, the search engines have to be crawling these sites several times every day and be constantly updating what they find. Otherwise their "news" results would be of very little value.

On the flip side, given their preoccupation with sites that are regularly changing and being updated, if a site is rarely changing or being updated, it is not likely to get regular visits from the spiders. Why would they waste their time?

So if you are a webmaster wanting to get traffic from the search engines, this should tell you something quite important: keep your most important pages fresh and updated. Give the search engines a reason to come back and look at them again. Regularly add content, and keep fine-tuning the "relevance" of your content.

Another important fact about search engine behavior has to do with the importance of links. Normally search engines index pages because they have followed a link from an already indexed page.

So it stands to reason that the more links you have pointing to a given page, and the more significant those links, the faster that page will get indexed, the higher it will get ranked for your most important keywords, and the more often it will get visited by the search engine spiders.

Once you are indexed, regular submission of the kind offered by bogus "site submissions services" is not going to help you. What will help you is regular updating of your pages and getting more links. The search engine spiders will follow the new links and have even more reason to visit your pages more frequently.

If you give the spiders something new to chew on when they get there, so much the better. As they learn that your pages are worth spidering (because your pages regularly change and contain useful content), they will get crawled more often.

What this means is that the best way to get a new site, or a new page indexed is to create a link from an already indexed page. But bear in mind that if the page that contains the link rarely gets crawled, it may take quite a while before that link is of much help to you.

When people speak of "quality links" they often fixate on the page's Google Page Rank. But while Page Rank is important, it does not tell the whole story. Often a link on a page with no PR at all will still send the spiders your way. It just depends how often that page gets crawled. For instance, getting your link on a blog page -- even a brand new one with no PR -- is usually a very effective way to get search engine attention. The reason is that the search engines often visit active blogs on a very regular basis.

Among other things this should tell you that exchanging links with other sites and having your link end up on a relatively useless "link page" is a very inefficient way to make an impression on the search engines.

An easier and much faster, more efficient way is to buy quality links from a service like Linknet Promotions. For example, buying a listing in a unique service like the Linknet "Business Webs" blog will get you in a blog that gets crawled on a regular basis (every day). This blog is also syndicated on more than 35 high quality, already indexed pages that also get crawled regularly. So one link gets multiplied into more than 35.


Rick Hendershot is president of Linknet Promotions Inc.

Article Source: Click-Partners.com

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