[walrus]

Originally Posted by JD

Thanks for the posts guys,

So does a ping go off after every post, so thereby if you are making a lot of posts a day, then it would be pinging too much, I think thats what you were getting at?

yes

Originally Posted by JD

For update services in WP, I just have http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
What do you guys recommend, changing this setting, adding different ones? Do you guys have something different in there.

I use pingomatic only. I tried pinging everyone and their uncle and watching my traffic stats they have not changed by just sticking to pingomatic. I dont see that every now and then one hit from a few places but at most it costs me 5-10 hits a month. I still get technorati, yahoo and google pinged which is where the majority of the traffic resides.

Originally Posted by JD

Walrus:
Ive been following your advice and writing down on paper notes etc., and I have noted I wont use that time stamp thing on wordpress due to the reasons you outlined. I have been thinking about that program you posted, and its one of those pages that I've seen heaps of times, the one page infomercial type thingy. Ive seen about a dozen of these kinds of pages all with different blog type programs and I didnt really know if they would be worthwhile, as they all look similiar. So did you find that yours was worth the hundred bucks nearly asking price? Does it do many other things besides just the remote posting?

You can use it for running complete blogging empire, blog script and all. I don't simply because I find that it is lacking in some aspects that can only be addressed by open architecture scripts like WP. I can't imagine building a blog with out the Ultimate Tag Warrior or Google site map plugins.

Is it worth the $100.00? My original thought after I purchased it and decided I couldn't use the blog script (I know others that do and are happy) was that it was a bad investment. But now I look at it and the ability to do automated timed posts to my WP blogs has allowed me to grow my personal blog empire by a factor of 4. Because my weekdays are very limited in time, but my weekends wide open, there is no way I could have expanded beyond 3-4 blogs.

So, it solves one of my problems and I am making more money so I guess I would have to say that it was worth it.

Originally Posted by JD

Have you guys tried the email posting from wordpress thats built in?

Nope, havent tried it

Originally Posted by JD

The bottom line is, I dont want to login to multiple blogs and post in the wordpress interface, would rather, spend a day a week setting up my posts for the week ahead, instead of doing them each day. One of the things I thought about doing was making a text ocument and writing next weeks posts in there, then I just need to copy paste each day or something, I really am looking for automation, hence I like the look of that program walrus.
Sorry, I talk too much and ask too much ), I just realise there is mucho knowledge in here :-)
thanks again
JD

Automation is the way to go. I post ahead 3 months at a time except for XXX Blog Maniac which I keep daily since it is much less a splog and more like a blog.