When mass producing new pages or changing some content I like to send a ping to a bunch of update services to let them know that my page has been updated or there is some new content around. There are some pingers out there that require you to tick a bunch of boxes, enter your url and possibly even your email address. It just takes too much time. There is a pinger built into your wordpress blog but what if you need to ping an outside page like a new Squidoo lens you have just created. Here is how you can quickly create a ping button for your Firefox. Simply hit the button and your current page will get pinged.

Here is the javacode that you need:

javascript:location.href='http://pingomatic.com/ping/?
title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)
+'&blogurl='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)
+'&chk_weblogscom=on&chk_blogs=on&chk_technorati=on&chk_feedburner
=on&chk_syndic8=on&chk_newsgator=on&chk_myyahoo=on&chk_pubsubco
m=on&chk_blogdigger=on&chk_blogrolling=on&chk_blogstreet=on&chk_mo
reover=on&chk_weblogalot=on&chk_icerocket=on&chk_newsisfree=on&chk_
topicexchange=on&chk_google=on&chk_tailrank=on&chk_bloglines=on&chk
_aiderss=on&chk_skygrid=on&chk_audioweblogs=on&chk_rubhub=on&chk_
geourl=on&chk_a2b=on&chk_blogshares=on'

Right click on your bookmarks toolbar and create a new bookmark. Call it Ping or whatever you like. In location field copy and paste the javascript above and click on add. You are done! Navigate to the page you would like to ping and hit the button.

When developing backlinks for a long term project you are better off either sticking to whitehat techniques or creating a buffer circle in case you get slapped by one of the search engines. (“One of the search engines” sounds somewhat inappropriate. How many of them still play a significant part in your SEO efforts? Yahoo and Google? Possibly Live stumbling along and getting out of breath every few steps. Anyhow…) Lets have a look at the awesome diagram I have created bellow:

If you want to take a safe approach you should not just bombard your main domain directly. Create a buffer zone using various resources freely available to you. Create a free blog or a squidoo lens and point it to your main domain. Now you can unleash your blackhat campaign on that buffer zone without having to worry about your main domain. You will still get to keep most of the link juice, however if something goes wrong it will be that free blog taking a fall for you and not your precious website. There are tons of various pages and blogs web 2.0 offers so spread out, make your circles wider and replace any fallen pages with new ones.

The other day I bumped into a new RSS feed translation service and after a few experiments I noticed how handy this can be for autoblogging. Instead of duplicating or generating random content you will actually be able to clone somebody else’s blog by translating it.

First of all you will need a target blog. The best place to find one is by searching a foreign blog directory. For example you can try this Russian blog search: http://blogs.yandex.ru/ You really don’t need to be able to speak Russian. Just search for the keywords related to your niche and pick a blog that gets updated regularly and does not have many ads in the actual blog posts. Also make sure that the blog outputs full RSS feed rather than the first chapter of every post. When you find what you need just grab the RSS feed url and head to http://mloovi.com/

Mloovi will do all the translating for you. Simply paste the feed url and pick English in the languages drop down menu. Click translate and a few seconds later your feed is going to be translated for you. Click on the RSS subscribe button to grab the translated feed url. It should be in the following format: http://beta.mloovi.com/r/016fd35902ae7b8674c7e0c106e6cc64. If you can’t find the url you can replace the code after /r/ with your own (Address bar).

I assume you know how to setup a wordpress blog so once you have one ready you will need the following plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-o-matic/ which will automatically fill your blog from an rss feed. Follow the readme instructions you find within the plugin and install it. You will need to add the feed url you just got from mloovi (Settings/WP-o-Matic/Add campaign). The great thing about WP-o-Matic is that it also rewrites the feed it imports so when adding a new campaign make sure your rewrite all <script> with a blank space. This will filter out any ads that Mloovi put in the RSS feed. Now when everything is up and running all you need to do is to setup a cron job so that your blog would update automatically. Set the time intervals depending on how often the original blog gets updated.

This is just the basic barebones setup. You should consider other plugins you would usually use on regular blogs. Update the ping list, make sure your urls are seo friendly, add a sitemap and if you have a bit of money to spend an automated bookmarking plugin that will bookmark all your new posts automatically and therfore automate your backlink development as well. You can try auto social poster or sociolizeit pro plugins. Don’t forget to monetize your new autoblog with Adsense or other ads.

Keep in mind that your target is only $1/day. Once your blog is earning $1/day you launch another one. It is much easier to have 100 autoblogs earning you $1/day each than 1 that earns you $100/day.

If this post is not clear I do apologize. I am experiencing a nasty flu at the moment and having problems thinking clearly.

Finally some seo development. Big 3 (Google, Yahoo and Live) will soon be using rel=”canonical” tags in order to manage duplicate content on your domain name. The tag will be used in the header of your page next to meta tags. For example <link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.exposedseo.com/wahtever.php”> will tell search engines that the page is a copy of http://www.exposedseo.com/wahtever.php. Fore more uses and information have a look at the original SEOmoz article. I don’t know when but I’m sure there will be a way to exploit this little tag soon.

It has recently been proven that duplicate content penalty only exists when the content is being duplicated on the same domain. Could this be an attempt to help webmasters sort this out? rel=”canonical” tag is said to replace 301 redirects which will make things much easier. Not only that, rel=”canonical” is only there for the spiders which means that the duplicate page will still be there for your visitors and won’t redirect to the original. Meanwhile, we just have to wait and see.