Ezine Articles Feed Workaround
Hi all
I hope everyone is well, it has been a crazy few weeks here between family visits and the World cup amongst other things. That is why it has taken me so long to post about this.
When ezine Articles changed the way they supply rss feeds sometime in April I did a blog post explaining how it had made it impossible for the Indexing tool to check the status of ezine articles.
I was hoping to get a program made that would pull a real feed from ezine articles and allow you to use that. I am still hoping to get that done but I know that people need a work around until we get that sorted.
So I did a video with a workaround, it isnt perfect but it works
As soon as I get a software solution sorted I will be in touch and send it out to everyone but I thought I would share this with you for now.
Paul
Google Updates Are Always Fun!
Well if you have been on the Internet over the last couple of days you will almost certainly have heard about the change to the Google results pages.
I don’t really have any comment on whether it is a better or worse look for them, although people who are far more obsessive than me seem to thing it is a good thing..for Bing! I somehow doubt this change will cause Google to fall off the face of the Internet but it has caused us to do a bit of a recode to the Indexing tool.
The code used to check if a page is indexed had to be changed. We are now on version 1.64 and it is in the members area. You can log in and get it right now, there have been no changes to the trackback plugin.
This change was totally beyond our control, we really don’t put out changes for the fun of it, as it means that just like you we have to go and update all our sites that use this plugin.
I advise you to download the update, unzip it and then ftp the files over the top of the ones currently in use. You don’t have to do it that way, you can just deactivate then delete version 1.63 and then upload 1.64 of course but I explain more in the video below.
Don’t Forget To Get Your Free Plugin
As always if you need any help let me know.
Paul
April Update
Hi there
Firstly a huge thanks to each and everyone of you who has purchased the plugin package from us.
We have had to do a couple of updates to both the indexing plugin and the trackback plugin. To get the latest versions simply log into the members area and download the latest versions there, but please do read the rest of this post so you know why we have done the updates.
The updates to the trackback plugin were just to deal with some freaky goings on if you used all in one seo and some of you may already have this version. The trackback feed you create can be used anywhere don’t forget. I did a video showing you one extra way to use it.
The updates to the indexing plugin are to add some extended time options to the checking options, and also a debug mode so we can help you a bit easier on the rare occasions you do have problems.
The biggest bit of news is a change at ezine articles which has affected some of you. They have changed the way they deliver their rss feeds, If you look at the data in the present rss feeds it just shows www.ezinearticles/3688191 which they then redirect to the full article url which may be http://ezinearticles.com/?Whatever-The-Article-Title-Was?&id=3688191.
This means that the destination url and the rss url are different so the indexing checker can’t check for indexing correctly. Which of course is a major pain in the patootie for you (and me). This is something totally beyond our control, and we did think they were just testing it at first but it looks like it is a permanent change now.I wanted to make sure that I let everyone know about it.
What are we doing about it?
Well we are trying to find a way to allow you to create your own rss feeds which would include the full urls and would be able to be used in the indexing tool. We may have to go with a desktop tool rather than a server site tool, at the moment we are still looking at options. Any owners of the indexing tool plugins will get this tool for free as soon as we can get it sorted out. I can not give you a eta on it, I would love to but I don’t want to disappoint anyone.
Trackbacks
We had a fair few questions about trackbacks and I think I have answered most of them in the videos on the how to use indexing Tool page although I did do a video showing other things you can do to get your trackback rss feed indexed.
http://indexingtool.com/get-maximum-use-from-trackback-rss-feed/
HTML Sites
At the present moment we do not have an HTML version of the tool available, We have been talking about it but it would take a while to produce and we are unsure if there is a large enough market for it at this point so we are not planning its imminent production.
Free Plugin
This is a fun plugin, it shows you how many backlinks your site has in Yahoo, you can already see the info in Google from your dashboard, so we thought adding Yahoo to the mix would be useful. Download the plugin here and if you want to see a video on how to use it then go to
http://www.thenewbiehelper.com/free-plugin/ .
Feel free to send the link to that blog post out to friends and post it on forums, no email needed to sign up just download it and use on all your sites so you can see how many links show up in Yahoo.
Where Do You Rank?
There is always talk of where you rank for keywords, why is there so much talk? Because the higher you rank the more traffic your site will get. It really is as simple as that, rankings = traffic and if your site is set up right traffic = money. You can see why people talk about rankings so much can’t you.
There are plenty of ways that you can see where your site ranks for certain keywords, most of them are expensive or require you to log into other sites or start up desktop tools or collect lots of data and then run that through other software. This all seemed a bit long winded, expensive and time consuming we wanted to be able to see where we ranked for the keywords that
bring us traffic without having to go anywhere other than my wordpress sites. Now you can.
http://ranktrackerplugin.com/paul.html
This wordpress plugin makes it super simple for you to see where you rank for the words that bring you traffic. Even better that link allows you to save $18 over the clickbank price!
I think that is all the news for today, please do make sure to come back to the blog once in a while and see what new videos we have added.
Take a moment to get the updated versions of the plugins and look at the videos I have already done showing you ways to get your trackbacks indexed even quicker.
As always if you have questions feel free to contact us using the contact form or the helpdesk. We always try and get back to people as quickly as we can.
Paul and Peter