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Copyscape Bookmarklet

Atif — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:08:19 +0000

This morning I was reading about how canonical links can help website owners with duplicate content related issues and also the growing problem of internet plagiarism. Copyscape is a good tool to check if the content of your page is copies somewhere else or not.

But the problem with Copyscape was that I have to copy the URL of each page and paste it in Copyscape website and request to check content duplication, which was fairly time consuming (at least for me).

Copyscape Bookmarklet

This little JavaScript magical tool henceforth called Copyscape Bookmarklet which I created might some of you with Copyscape. You just have to drag this bookmarklet over to your bookmarks bar to save it. Now navigate you any web page like you do, and click on the bookmarklet, which will automatically perform a Copyscape test for you.

Click and drag this Copyscape Bookmarklet over to your Bookmarks Bar

Setting Up Windows Live Writer for Easy Blogging [WordPress Blog]

Atif — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:40:04 +0000

If you are a good blogger you don’t get bored writing a blog. However lack of essential tools for blogging can sometimes get make blogging boring. There are many tools that allow you to write a blog post locally and publish it to your WordPress blog via XML-RPC service. XML-RPC is a service that remotely allows you to do things on your website using XML data feed. One such example is publishing a blog post. I would rather not go in detail about XMP-RPC.

There are many tools available for you to write blog posts on your PC. In this article I picked up Windows Live Writer because

It is Free (even many others are free like Zoundry Raven)
It is faster
It is more user friendly
It has got many third plugins
It has got theme support (where you can live preview your blog)
A free product from “Microsoft”. Lol yeah!

So first you need to download and install Microsoft Live Writer from here (and for those who love offline installers like me here is the link).

Lets begin installing. In the mean time, open the admin panel of your blog. Go to Options > Writing Settings

Make sure XML-RPC is checked which is under Remote Publishing. Save your settings.

Now lets start with the Windows Live Writer. I hope it is already installed by now. There should be a window that would be asking you for which blog service do you use. Select “Other blog service” and click Next

Now add your blog writing your blogs URL followed by your admin username and password. Then click Next

The Windows Live Writer will not try to connect to your blog and validate your username and password to set up your blog.

You will be prompted to create a temporary post to detect the current theme for Live preview. In our case, I selected No. Now you should see something like this

That brings this to an end. Windows Live Writer is now connected to your blog. Simply write a new post, click publish and see the magic.

60+ RPC and RPC2 Services to Ping your Blog

Atif — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:43:27 +0000

Wow I am writing a post exactly after 50 days. Sorry guys for being away, I was extremely busy establishing a Social Networking website for Hyderabad called Wakaao. It took me 4 months to code that website (at the rate of 1 hour a day lol). By the way if you are from Hyderabad then you can join now and make a whole lot of friends at Wakaao.

Ping services are those that allow you to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated. So each time you write a post, you can ping these servers to let them know that you have some new content. (WordPress users can modify their ping list on the Control Panel, then Options, then Writing). The bigger your ping list the more chances that you ma get traffic from those. Here is a compiled list of 60+ ping servers where you can ping your blog.

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blog.youdao.com/ping/RPC2
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/pingSubmit?
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://www.xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php
http://www.zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

Thanks to Joe Levi and Eliott Back