In Blogging For Dollars Part One we discussed free hosting options for beginner bloggers. Following up in Blogging For Dollars Part Two we talked about getting your own hosting and setting up Wordpress. Today we will go more in depth about making posts with your new adult blog and getting some free traffic to your site.
Before you get started posting, I mentioned in Part Two of Blogging For Dollars that there are a few thing in your Wordpress Admin that you need to attend to.
Add Interactivity To Your Blog By Enabling User Comments.
The first thing you will want to look at is your settings for “comments” on your blog. The comments feature allows people to interact with your blog by commenting on your posts. This is a great way to get repeat visitors to your site. You can setup some spam protection features as well as how much control you will have over the comments people post to your site. You will find these settings after logging into your Wordpress Dashboard and clicking on “Options” and then on “Discussion.”
If You Ping Them, They Will Come.
The next thing you will want to check out is the “Update Services” box under the Options/Writing tab in your Wordpress dashboard. This is where the free traffic comes in. “Update Services” means that every time you make a post to your blog, the Wordpress software will send an xmlrpc ping to various news aggregators, depending on how many services you add to the options. News aggregators are various websites that keep track of the blogosphere. They constantly update with the newest posts from blogs all over the world, based on the pings that they receive. This keeps new content right at a web surfers fingertips as soon as it is available. A great concept!
There are tons of news aggregators that accept xmlrpc pings, however there are some conditions that apply. Many news aggregators simply will not list adult blogs, and some require you to register your blog before you can start sending pings. You will want to check the main page of each ping site to see if it is worth putting in your Update Services tab. One service you will want to make sure you ping is Technorati. If you do not abuse this service, you will get lots of high quality traffic to your adult blog with little effort.
Here is a list of XMLRPC Ping Addresses you can look through and add to Wordpress.
Smart Update Pinger
I also recommend that you install a plugin that will aid you in the pinging process. By default, Wordpress pings whenever you make a new post AND when you make changes to existing posts. Some news aggregators can interpret this as spam and will remove your site from it’s listings. Smart Update Pinger remedies this by ONLY pinging services when you make a new post. Just upload this great plugin to your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it through the Plugins tab in your Wordpress Admin. This plugin is synced with the Update Services box in your Wordpress Options/Writing tab.
Tagging Your Posts And Categories
Services such as Technorati will list your blog posts on their site in categories called “Tags.” You will want to make sure your posts are listed in relevant Tags. In your Wordpress Options under the “Manage” tab, you will find a section for categories. Every time you make a new post to your blog you will be able to select which category or categories to insert the post into. For instance if you have a boob related blog, your categories might be; Big Boobs, Saggy Boobs, Hard Nipples, etc… Technorati and other sites will look at what category your post is in and list the post under the corresponding Tag on their site, so it makes sense to create sensible category names. In other words, a category named Big Boobs will get better results than one named Big Melons. More people are gonna search for boobs than they are melons. Get the picture? You can put your post in as many categories as you want, but don’t go too crazy. Too many categories may also be seen as spam.
Another way to tag your posts so that Technorati will list your post under that tag is by using the rel=”tag” attribute. Example: if your post is related to Natural Breasts, but you don’t have a category on your blog with that title, use the following code:
<a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/Natural+Breasts” rel=”tag”>Natural Breasts</a>
The Technorati Bot will see that your post is related to Natural Breasts and list it under that tag on technorati.com. Make sure you add the “+” between two word tags. Don’t leave a blank space in the URL. Again I recommend you use this method of tagging sparingly. You do not want to get your blog blacklisted from Technorati.
NOTE: Again let me tell you to make sure you go over your Wordpress Dashboard with a finetooth comb before you start posting. If you have any questions about the functions or options in Wordpress, visit the Wordpress Documentation and the Wordpress Support Forums. You may want to look these over even if you don’t have any questions. There is tons of good info to be found.
If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment and I will respond shortly. In the following article I will list lots of possible xmlrpc ping addresses and a few places to submit your blog to get you some traffic rolling.
