Confession: I have no idea what I'm doing

SaucyPanties · 2007-04-21, 03:51 AM

Grandmascrotum - I have a MyYahoo set as my home page with lots of favourite modules (as Yahoo allows you to do). When logged into My Yahoo it has a small blue + button reading "Add Content". When I have a new blog I copy the RSS feed link by 'right click copy url' (your blogs RSS is http://www.msnaughty.com/blog/feed/ ) and I enter this as my add content option into Yahoo.

Now Yahoo knows to check my blogs for updates every time I open my browser. Does this make a massive difference? Who knows but for something so simple to do you are not losing anything and I do swear by this method for new blogs.

As for plugins, my personal 'MUST' have is the Google sitemap generator. Each time you make a new post, the sitemap generator builds a new site map and it 'pings google'. Once installed you do not click any extra buttons, it is all automated.

Before I installed this my Google traffic was poor to my blog, the day after I installed it I noticed a difference. Take a look at http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch and search for 'fart' or 'used panties'. Both should return my blog top, used panties because that is the theme and fart because that was the title of my last post.

docholly - Yes I did read the comments however I cannot see that having a 'test' blog to upload a plugin click activate and 'see if it has a desired effect' is too time intensive? You are talking under 5 minutes and if it screws up the test blog then you know not to try it on your main blog.

My comments about php and my very basic knowledge did not say 'THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD DO' I was simply saying I only have a basic understanding because.... my 3 actual suggestions were run a test blog if you are unsure of a plugin, use the sitemap plugin and add your feed to a reader such as your Yahoo homepage.

2007-04-21, 03:51 AM	#1
SaucyPanties No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 231	Grandmascrotum - I have a MyYahoo set as my home page with lots of favourite modules (as Yahoo allows you to do). When logged into My Yahoo it has a small blue + button reading "Add Content". When I have a new blog I copy the RSS feed link by 'right click copy url' (your blogs RSS is http://www.msnaughty.com/blog/feed/ ) and I enter this as my add content option into Yahoo. Now Yahoo knows to check my blogs for updates every time I open my browser. Does this make a massive difference? Who knows but for something so simple to do you are not losing anything and I do swear by this method for new blogs. As for plugins, my personal 'MUST' have is the Google sitemap generator. Each time you make a new post, the sitemap generator builds a new site map and it 'pings google'. Once installed you do not click any extra buttons, it is all automated. Before I installed this my Google traffic was poor to my blog, the day after I installed it I noticed a difference. Take a look at http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch and search for 'fart' or 'used panties'. Both should return my blog top, used panties because that is the theme and fart because that was the title of my last post. docholly - Yes I did read the comments however I cannot see that having a 'test' blog to upload a plugin click activate and 'see if it has a desired effect' is too time intensive? You are talking under 5 minutes and if it screws up the test blog then you know not to try it on your main blog. My comments about php and my very basic knowledge did not say 'THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD DO' I was simply saying I only have a basic understanding because.... my 3 actual suggestions were run a test blog if you are unsure of a plugin, use the sitemap plugin and add your feed to a reader such as your Yahoo homepage. __________________ Saucy Used Panties