Blogging

Mar 28 2009

Essential Word Press Plugins for Using RSS Feeds

Whitey

Previously, we had posted on the Essential Plugins for Adult Blogs. In addition to those, we will be adding some posts about other plugins that have very specific uses depending on how you are going to use your blog.

Adult blogs, being commercial in nature, often times make use of sponsor provided RSS feeds. In order to import feeds into your blog, you will need a plugin to accomplish this task. In our experience, there are two reliable, maintained and updated plugins which you can use to import rss feed into your blog or splog as blogs composed entirely of rss feeds are called.

Using Free Adult Blog Hosts:

Whitey

Since my return to the adult online business, I have been pondering the use of free adult bloghosts for awhile.

I am generally not willing to commit significant time to a publishing property of any kind where I do not control every aspect of that property – meaning primarily the domain name and where it is hosted. There is simply no reason to build significant value in terms of traffic and/or PR/Trust value in a property that belongs to someone else. From some points of view, that may mean that my simple criteria as stated would eliminate the use of the free hosting platform for any kind of web promotion. That, however, would be an oversimplification.

After thinking through the issue thoroughly, I have concluded that there are several good uses for the free hosted blogging platform that do not require a significant time or financial investment and can help build on your primary efforts to build traffic and trust in your own properties….

The Adult Blog Pinging Phobia….

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I have read some posts on adult webmaster boards recently on the fear that some adult webmasters have about “pinging” their blog.

If you do not know what a “ping” is, click here for the Wikpedia article on “pinging”.

If you do know what pining is and are somehow fearful of pinging your adult blog as you update, it is time to put that notion to rest.

First of all, pinging is an intentional service intended to allow Search Engines to access and provide results for fresh content that is published in the blog format. It is specific to “blogs” because of their decidedly “news” and “opinion” orientation and bias in format of the publishing mechanism.

If you doubt that it is the intention of blog pinging services to wish to be let known of blog updates, following is a quote from the Google page introducing their blog pinging service:

“Today we’re launching the Google Blog Search Pinging Service, which is a way for individual bloggers and blog platform providers to inform us of content changes. Blogging providers who syndicate RSS/Atom/XML and want to be included in our Blog Search index can now ping us directly. We’ll continue to monitor other pinging services and will contribute change notifications to the community. Read more at our FAQ. “

This was published on this Google page in 2006.

Furthermore, pinging allows your new site to be indexed faster (I have put some blogs up on new domains that went from grey bar to a PR 0 in a matter of hours). It will also bring fresh traffic to new posts.

But, all webmasters, particularly adult webmasters, need to be concerned about being identified as a “ping spammer”. Because there should be concern, however, does not mean or imply that one should not ping their updates…