First off, kudos to Vladimir Prelovac for compiling this list. I came across Vladimir from a post entitled “101 Ways to Promote a New Blog” by David Turnball. This is the easiest way to increase traffic that I have ever heard for WordPress blogs.
There is a field in your WordPress Admin Panel under Settings called “Writing”, and within “Writing” is a box called “Update Services”. What “Update Services” does is send an automatic notification to the listed sites every time you publish new content on your blog. It is a little like issuing a press release to various news services. WordPress has a couple of default services listed. What you want to do is copy and paste the following list into the “Update Services” box, then click save. That’s it.
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
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Nicely done, a quick and useful 60 second update I hadn't thought of doing! Thank you sir.
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Was actually sent here by SchemaByte's tweet. I just added these, lets see if it helps!
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Nice and easy tip Ryan. I just did it, so I hope it makes a difference.
Thank you!
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That's great to hear. I have found more traffic since having done this – I hope it works for you as well.
Is this kinda cheating or totally legit? How quickly did you guys see an increase in traffic after the copy and paste into writing services?
Its totally legit – its a little like putting out a press release to several newspaper editors. If people who read the newspaper want to check out your article, you will get more traffic. If not, nothing will happen.
Thanks for posting this, I'm running a WordPress Blog, but hadn't heard this information before. I'll set it up now. Thankyou!
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Thanks a lot for this post Ryan. I'm quite interested if this will work. I started my own blog a couple of days ago and i do know that getting traffic takes a while but 0 people in 5 days kind of blows
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I hope it works for you. It will take a while for you to get some traction – the social media sites are great ways to bring people to your site. I had a look and like where you are going with your blog. Perseverance is everything in this niche.