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Ok what I want to do is get my website indexed quickly on the search engines. I hear blogging is a good way of getting sites spidered quickly.
I have a site up with about 100 pages. What I have done is used a program to capture all the pages (with full paths) to my computer. I want to be able to automatically post these pages randomly to blogger.com
Is there any way I can do that? I know I might have to use cron jobs but how do I get it to take pages randomly from the directory and post them to blogger?
Is your goal to get indexed quickly or highly ranked? They are very different goals, neither of which is actually acheived via spamming blogs with referral links.
Thanks for your reply. Well my goal is to be highly indexed and to stay there.
I have heard some people who are using some automated tools for RSS and blogging that get them indexed quickly and generates a lot of traffic.
My goal is not to blog heavily and to spam as that would get me de-indexed quite quickly. The plan was to auto post my webpages not just the links - they have good articles and content on them as well as RSS.
So you have ~100 ready to publish pages, that aren't currently published and you have a blog. You want to randomly publish one of your ready to go pages to your blog at some interval? (removing the newly published page from the list of as-yet published pages in the process). Is this a correct re-statement of the situation?
feyd - nothing underhanded going on. I have created 100 pages of content rich pages - however I am not getting indexed quickly. I would like to generate some revenue from the site as I have my own product and affiliate programs and adsense on the pages.
I have written my own articles and the articles are in an articles index for viewers to see.
Eric, yes what you have said is correct. However I have a blogger.com account and I now have a Wordpress blog on my website that I am trialling.
To blog this manually is going to take me forever, plus as there are so many pages I won't know which one I've already submitted etc. So to automate the process I would like to know how I would take one page at random and submit to blogger.com(and later possibly my own Wordpress blog- I can do this manually for now). Once the page has been submitted to blogger.com, it should be removed from the list of things to blog.
I want to be able to set it to one blog per day to start with etc.
Well I'd like to give the poster the beneift of the doubt
Given that the poster has an existing site with ~100 pages of content and that the OP doesn't want to "blog heavily" I can't see how any auomated publisher would help in any legit way.
If you have a site with good content and you want to drive more traffic to it, via a personal blog. The personal blog would have to be updated frequently with interesting material not already on your companion site, but stuff that is relevant to the companion site. Reposting your existing content to your blog won't likely generate traffic. Yes it may help keep your site in some RSS channels, until they boot you.
I think that leaving your content at its existing site is probably best, but start your blog with stuff about your site. Maybe highlight a few special areas or articles/content you're paticularly proud of, etc. I think if you few the blog as a secondary site to your main content site that would help. You don't want to two to end up just mirroring each other.
Now if you want to pre-cache several of these blog entries and use cron/php/curl, etc to uplaod them once a day that's basically the same question as you started with, and I think it might be a mre useful approach. -- But this means you have to create new content not just schedule reposts.
Of course you can selectively repost a whole previous article, on occasion, but I wouldn't suggest it too often.
Thanks for the reply. I'll post snippets of my articles etc and see how I go. Write some fresh content etc and keep the two separate like you suggested.
Thanks for your help - given I have seen so many automated tools out there I was wondering if I was at a disadvantage doing it manually.
From what I understand from what you said its best to go manually or risk being de-indexed.
that's kind of what I was getting after in my brutally short post. Plus, the search engines could notice this explosion of content from a site, which could easily be flagged as "fishy." And in reality, you were talking about artificially inflating your page rank (if only temporarily..)
Its always best to focus on making your site as good as possible. If you do a good job and people like to come to your site for their information; you'll be ranked high regardless of what mechanism is used. Don't worry about the various algorithms used to "score" a site. As soon as they are identified, they are changed.
nielsene wrote: Don't worry about the various algorithms used to "score" a site. As soon as they are identified, they are changed.
I'm in good with google. They tell me how they rank their pages.
*sneers*
Set Search Time - A google chrome extension. When you search only results from the past year (or set time period) are displayed. Helps tremendously when using new technologies to avoid outdated results.