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Ping or Pinging is an XML-RPC information pushing service by which weblog notifies a server whenever some content gets updated on it. This pinging process is being achieved by sending an XML-RPC signal to several pinging servers.Pinging is the quick way to promote your blog around the internet.

Now WordPress has made pinging very simple to their bloggers. There is a large list of pinging services that you can set within the settings of your WordPress admin, so that whenever you update the contents of your blogs, these will automatic ping those servers to boost your presence on Search Engine and help your blog to get ranking.

It is worth to setup those pinging services within your blog settings and go to those pinging services to claim your blog to authenticate it. It worth to spend an hour doing this.

In your WordPress blog go to Settings > Writing > scroll down to Update Services. You will see http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ in the box.

Just add few more to the list to boost it.

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://ping.feedburner.com/

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/

http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx’

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://blogupdate.org/ping/

http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2

WordPress themes are available in large numbers on the web and hundreds more are being added daily to the web. But while selecting the WordPress theme for your blog, I would like to suggest you with any of the magazine style WordPress theme may it be free or paid WordPress theme with excerpt views of the posts on the home page. WordPress blog with themes having excerpt view on the home page plays big role in gathering popularity to your blog.

Why excerpt view themes perform best?

There are thousands of free and paid WordPress themes available on the web and selecting the best among them that suits your personality and contribute to your blog popularity is very tough job. To make it a bit simple I would like to suggest you a theme with excerpts from your blog posts on the home page. This type of WordPress theme performs best as the visitor of your blog gets more accessibility to lots of other posts present in your blog.

This way the visitors like blogs with this type of template very much due to the following reasons

1. Your blog provides easy navigation to many other posts on your blog.
2. Visitors hates clicks to gather information present on several pages.
3. By presenting excerpt about several posts at the home location helps them to know about what the post is written about without getting pain of clicking several times from the archives of the blog to know what that post is about.
4. The visitor’s get rid of waiting for each page to get load before knowing what is there inside. The little excerpt tells them the whole story about the blog post.
5. Some visitors gets relaxed as they have saved their Internet bandwidth usages because they doesn’t have to click on every page and loose some of the bandwidth to know what is there inside the post they are interested to know about.

Thus while selecting WordPress themes from thousands of gorgeous themes, you should also take care about such factors that whether the theme you are going to use will contribute to your blog popularity or not.

Recent post plugins on a blog contributes to have positive increase in AdSense earning. There are lots of WordPress recent post plugins available on the web and those who are using another blogging software will find related gadgets for their blogs. In this post you will learn how recent posts plugins will help increasing AdSense earning.

Why recent posts plugins is most important?

Blog visitors have a natural tendency to quit once they have read out the whole post for searching other related information on the web through search engines or other available sources on the web in order to gather more and more information about what they are searching for. This is what no blogger expects from their visitors as they works hard on every post of their blog to provide valuable information to their readers. Even leaving your webpage by the visitors as soon as they completed reading will also have a negative effect on AdSense earning because this decreases the number of potential clicks and page impression which otherwise would contribute to increase your AdSense earning. So, the only remedy is to keep the visitors glue with your blog anyway and fortunately recent posts plugins will play very important role in this context.

How recent posts plugins helps blog visitors to stay on your blog?

When a visitor completes reading a specific post on your blog, he/ she would either quit off your blog or try to find something more on your blog. Now, its your responsibility to give your blog visitor the reason to stay on your blog. With the help of recent posts plugins you are providing your blog visitor the easy navigation to other posts of your blog which may interest them to click and read other posts.

How recent posts plugins help increasing AdSense earning?

Recent posts plugins is a easy navigation to few recent posts written on the blog. If the visitor has got interested in the content quality of your previous read page or pages then he/ she may get interest in the recent written topics on your blog.

Page impression- So, recent posts plugins increases the chances of increasing page impression as the visitors clicks on other pages of your blog which contributes earning to your AdSense account.

Clicks generation- Again by visiting different pages the visitor will encounter different contents along with valuable information provided by related Google AdSense advertisements, so they may like to click few of them present on some pages of your blog.

Few more click generation- Since though recent posts plugins visitors gets some reason to stay longer on your blog, so gradually a laziness develops in the visitor to quit of your blog and search somewhere else for gathering more information. They tends to stay even for more time on your blog site, this gives an extra advantage to your AdSense earnings as the visitor now started making up mind for gathering more  and more information there which eventually give results to more clicks on related Google AdSense advertisements present on your blog.

Permalink setup is one thing that always help you to get rank in search engines and also help your visitors to easily get your blog post and promote it efficiently. But being new to blogging, many blogger either does not know about Permalink or doesn’t know how to setup Permalink to get ranked for most search in Search Engines. Let me help you out for this.

Permalink.

Permalink or permanent link of any blog is bit different or you may say a little addition to the orignal blog URL. Whenever a new bog-post has been added to a blog a new Permalink automatically gets created. You can visit any specific Permalink just by clicking on the heading title of the blog post. The Permalink is the specific URL of any post present in the blog.

Why is Permalink required?

Suppose you are visiting my blog www.bigblogacademy.com, so you will get land on the home page of the blog with ever changing contents there. That’s why you will be unable to get or locate the content you have read there just few days ago (say 30 days ago). So, what’s the solution for that? Its easy, you will either use archive to find it out or you have to remember the Permalink and type it in the address box to visit that post entry. This is why we need Permalink.

Permalink setup in WordPress.com

You can setup the Permalink easily with little or no efforts in wordpress. The all you have to do is to go to Settings – > Permalink. Now choose the Custom Structure option from the available options there.

1. In the text box just enter “/%postname“. This will make your Permalink looks like www.yourblogname.com/post-title
2. You can also setup the blog Permalink to “%category%/%postname%“. This will make your blog Permalink url looks like www.yourblogname.com/category/post-title .

The second option will perform better for the search engines and also helps the visitors to search the related topics on your blog from any specific category.

How does Permalink setup helps the visitors and search engine ranking?

The default Permalink for WordPress blogs always ends up with home url followed by a combination of special characters and numbers. It looks something like this www.yourblogname.com/?315.

1. Now this is the thing that you are expecting your blog visitors to remember when they re-visit that specific blog-post on your blog. But the URL itself seems less logical for us to get remember. Instead its better option to help your readers to let them remember the Permalink by the title name of the post or its more better to help them remember category name followed by title of the post. This way they can remember and promote your blog posts Permalink easily and correctly.
2. By doing WordPress Permalink setup, you are allowing search engines to index your blog posts by your post URL too. This will help the Search engines to setup more relevancy of your Permalink with the visitor search. So, this increases the chances of your blog posts to get index for some related search.

The best thing about any blog which should be taken care by any blogger is the selection of proper theme for the blog. This is very important as theme is the first thing that makes an impression about the blog in the eye of the blog visitor. A combination of good content with incorrect blog theme will kill the blog. So, the theme is the first thing about your blog who will decide the fate of your blog.

The best thing about selection of Wordpress blog theme is that it is available for all types of people who are either willing to purchase Wordpress premium blog themes or willing to collect tonnes of free wordpress themes available online. Similarly templates for blogspot are also available as premium paid blogspot theme and free blogspot themes.

But the real problem starts with selection and setup of free blogging themes.

Those who use paid or premium Wordpress theme or paid or premium blogspot template would less likely to change their themes of blog once it is setup. But for the free wordpress themes or free blogspot template users, the scenario is somewhat different. They more often tends to change their blog themes either due to the reason that they have got better and new blog theme than existing or the existing theme has some flaw. Now this is the time when Wordpress has extra advantage over blogspot or blogger.

Wordpress theme setup has advantage over blogspot or blogger.

The free theme users either from blogspot/ blogger or Wordpress needs their themes to get change.

New Blogger template setting problem.

But the main problem about changing any existing template in blogspot is that whenever the blogger changes their template, the most of added widget will get deleted every time. And after the new template has been uploaded all the widgets need to to add to it from the scratch excepting those which are already present as default for the new template.

Deletion of blogger widget while new template setup.

New Wordpress theme setup advantages.

Wordpress does not have such disadvantage for setting up of new theme every time to its blogs. Instead it has gain extra advantage of replacing better themes with the existing ones. While applying the new Wordpress theme for your blog, all the widgets will remain intact and get adapted with the new theme. The advantage you are getting with the new Wordpress theme is that you are getting more features if any associated with the new theme you are installing.

Hence Wordpress (free or self hosted blogging) platform always has better advantage in regards of template setup of blogger.com.

When you have decided to start Blogging, then its time to wait a little more to decide the best blogging platform for you. In my earlier post “Where to Blog” I have discussed pretty lots of things about which platform is best for your blogging and why? But, there is little more to say about choosing a free blogging platform. I am writing this post to clarify about wordpress a bit more for those who lean towards professionalism of blogging from very begining.

This post is about Wordpress Free Vs Paid.So, what the best deal among Free Vs Paid services.

WordPress.com language support -the free blogging service.

To start with lets talk about wordpress.com the free blogging service available online. This is one of the best platform available to those who are looking at the SEO aspect and other technical support of blogging.

Language support of wordpress.com

While you are signing up for an account in wordpress.com you can choose your own languages. Wordpress support about more than 50 international languages. You just have to select from the language drop down menu of the list.

use this dropdown to select languages

If you are new to wordpress.com and don’t want english language then just click on this dropdown menu below Sign-up button to select language. If you are not getting it from the dropdown then select the last option “More Languages” option from the dropdown. You will be soon taken to a page with lots of International language options.

The more International languages option

Select from this available international languages option and sign up for blogging in your preffered language.

For bloggers in India, wordpress supports 6 different languages.

Wordpress.com in Indian languages

Wordpress self hosted language support.

Now if you are using your own self hosted domain with wordpress installed in it then you have to install pluggins for different language support other than default English. But don’t get panic for that. There are very little steps to follow for that installation.

Presently I am using Wordpress version – 2.8.3 where adding up the desired language pluggin is more easy. But if you are not using this version, I will discuss that a little later below.

Add new Plugins

Now click on Add New. You will soon taken to Install plugin page where ou will get a search box to search the desired plugin. Enter the keyword and search it.

search-install from wp admin

Now enter the keyword for the language plugin you are searching for and press enter or click Search Plugins. This will soon take you to the page where lots of plugins related to your search will be available. If you will not find it there, just search it again on the same page. If you will get your desired wordpress plugin, then click on the install link to the extreme right of that plugin.

Install plugins from admin

Thats all. You have successfully installed the language plugin. Activate the plugin option available soon after installation or you can activate it later from Plugins option in the admin panel. Select the newely installed deactive plugin. Click on Activate.

Activate installed plugin

Now, when you have activate the WP plugin, it will start working properly. But some installed activated plugins required settings to be done. Just go to the setting section and select the plugin to make require settings.

Plugin Settings

How to install WP plugins with previous version of WP.

If you are not using the 2.8 onward version of WP, still you can search and install plugins with the help of FTP or personal domain Cpanel on self hosted WP blogs.

Go to Wordpress.org. You will find the Extend tab there. Click on that tab. You will be taken to the page contains link of WP Plugins Directory.

WP plugins from Wordpress.org

Click on that WP Plugins Directory link. This will take you to the search box page where you have to search the plugin.

Search WP plugin here

The rest is almost same as previous. The only difference is that you will get the download plugin button after getting the plugin. The all you need to do is just download the plugin available in the .zip or .rar format. Extract it in your local PC and upload the WP plugin through FTP or Cpanel in the /wp-content/plugins directory of public Html. Now come back to your wordpress admin, activate and make settings if required.

Hope, this article will help you to understand the language support of Wordpress (Free blogging service and your self hosted installed wordpress blog.