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Reasons not to Use Blogger for Freelance Blogging


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Something I have noticed in the past ( and I have noticed it is much worse), is Blogger Posts do not get effectivly indexed by Search Engines other than Google. This shouldn't be too surprising, since Google owns Blogger, but it really is very difficult to get the other search engines to respond to posts put in the Blogger System.

Normally you use a ping service to send out the message that you have posted something, but that is done through Feedburner now and Google owns that as well. For example you can see the Eddie Cat Burner Feed, but no one else (in the SE world) is paying much attention.

If you are using Blogger for serious intent, and you can't/won't switch over to something more accessible to the rest of the world; there are some services I've run across which might be effective.

The first service is http://autopinger.com/ . You can sign up (free) for the auto-ping service, or simply ping the blog networks right off their front page. They seem a non-intrusive bunch, so I've been testing them out.

The services you want to make sure you get the message to are Technorati, My Yahoo, Weblogs.com, and Bloglines. This covers most of the major search engines.

Each of these sites have search engines on them, which go through the sites which they deem important enough to list. SEO operations for each of these Blog Search networks, is far to much to get into during a blog post, but checking periodically for where you are at (especially for phrases which are more or less unique to your posts). A good check is simply for your latest headline.

MSN had the Walking Eddie Cat blogger site listed when I searched, but was displaying a post over six weeks old (might as well not be listed when the last index is this old). Yahoo doesn't have anything for Walking with Eddie Cat, and Ask.com is listing a member area in PleantyOfFish.com pages before Eddie Cat.

So while your Blog posts may be showing up in mere seconds on the Google Blog Search, unless you are massaging the rest of the world with your Blogger posts, chances are you aren't being heard at all.

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ScribeFire - Yet another Reason to use FireFox


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Firefox is the most useful browser I've ever used. K on Linux isn't bad, and there is the Gnome browser as well, but as far as needing to go through several hundred tasks a day on the Internet, a Tool like Firefox is simply a requirement.

ScribeFire is the latest addition to my Freelance Writer power-tool set and in only a few short hours it has become a required add-on. Yes, there are other blogging tools which post to a variety of blog formats and have nice interfaces for the serious blogger -- however Scribefire is quick, hassle free, and I never leave the browser window.

When you are a Freelance Writer, creating ten to fifteen blog posts a day, or writing several 2000 word articles a day, having a tool which is fast, efficient and available at the click of a button, which doesn't interrupt the flow of thoughts -- is a requirement.

If you aren't using Firefox, with extensions like Scribefire, you are probably waisting several hours of your day in simple frustration.

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