Sean’s Blog

I’ve been wanting to do a post about RSS readers for a while now and I couldn’t think of a what I really wanted to write about it. So I though I would try to cover the basics for people that aren’t familiar with RSS and then share some of my favorite tips on how to use it.

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When I made the move from hosted blogging to self hosted awhile ago, I left all my original blogs intact. I imported and exported all my posts, but the traffic that my other blogs were getting was pretty good and I knew it would take a while for everything to show up in the search engines at the new sites. Recently though, I’ve been thinking that this was a somewhat short sighted strategy.

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Earlier I posted about some of the traffic fall off I’ve experienced recently. While I know “content is king” and am actively working on it, I have also been looking into some of the more technological ways to get the word out about the blog. One of the things I’ve found is the ability in Wordpress to customize what blog directories are “pinged” when you write a new post.

The only line in there by default is rpc.pingomatic.com which is a service that contacts multiple blog listing sites. When I went the actual site though, there was only 16 directories listed (plus another 5 specialized that i haven’t listed):

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