On Sugar Blogging Platform

September 21st, 2008 • general, wordpress
Tags: Blog, blog theme, blogging software, create blog, onsugar, search engine optimization, seo, sugar, website marketing, website promotion, wordpress

OnSugar

I noticed that I missed an article on TechCrunch which is about Sugar Inc. They have launched a new blogging service OnSugar.com. Of course I give it a try, created a couple of blogs - yep, it’s free - and even wrote a test post about RunSEORun.com. At first glance it seems a little ‘wordpress’ to me, then I dive deep and sees that at least the underlying interface is Wordpress-like. ‘Add Link’ pop-up was very familiar. It has a clean admin panel, not hard to get used to it. However there’s much work to do. At least they need to put a RSS link in blog templates by default. I really couldn’t find that. I created some generic named blogs, may be they will be of some use later.

You should give it a try as well.

Technorati And Other Ping Services

September 18th, 2008 • 1 comment seo
Tags: blog & ping, blog directory, blogging software, feedster com ping, ping, ping feedster, search engine, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, search engine ranking, search engine submission, seo, technorati, technorati blog, technorati ping, web site optimization, weblog

Technorati

Search engine submission has completed. Let’s move to next stage: ping services. Ping services are important especially for blogs. They keep track of content changes. What you have to do is ping a server when you write something. After that ping, services like Technorati will visit your site to fetch the changes. Normally wordpress has default ping support. After you write a post it’ll automatically ping the servers you’ve specified. Wordpress pings Pingomatic after changes and Pingomatic pings several public ping services like Weblogs.com, FeedBurner and Technorati.

It’s a good idea to claim your blog on Technorati. By claiming your blog, you will be able to follow the reactions of your blog: How many favs have you got? How many sites have given a link to you? etc…

I’ve added RunSEORun.com to Technorati. Here is the link: RunSEORun @Technorati.