Yesterday, one of the best “make money online” bloggers, Garry Conn, released for sale a mini ebook titled “How Do I Make WordPress Titles Search Engine Friendly.” I had the pleasure last night to take a read through this mini ebook.

Who is Garry Conn?

For those of you who do not read Garry Conn’s Blog, I highly recommend that you read it daily. Garry Conn is one of the few Internet marketers who writes a blog actually explaining how to make money online. Unlike a lot of the make money online bloggers, Garry does not just write about how much money he makes and what he is buying with it. No, he actually helps you to make money online.

Who is this mini ebook for?

When you search for your articles on Google, does your blog title appear before your article title? If so, and you don’t know how to fix this problem, go and buy this mini ebook. Garry has written this ebook around fixing this problem. He has also provide the php code so that you can quickly fix your WordPress blog. This mini ebook is very easy to read and will quickly solve your problem.

A new version of WordPress is available!  That’s right, you might have seen this message when you logged into your WordPress dashboard.  WordPress 2.3.2 is ready for downloading.  I usually upgrade my WordPress install after Fantasico has updated its software.  I don’t like to mess around with my install so I always use Fantastico through my cpanel dashboard.

What is in WordPress 2.3.2?

WordPress 2.3.2 contains a major security fix.  WordPress has fixed a bug that allowed Internet users to see posts that you had saved in your drafts folder.  I noticed this bug a couple of months back.  I would see a draft post show up on an RSS feed.  Since you don’t want anyone to see what your future posts are going to be, you should definitely install this latest release.

Pat Doyle wrote a post today answering a reader question about how to set up WordPress to ping various blog directories. I thought that this would make a great how to article for my WordPress Tip series.

What is pinging?

Pinging allows you to tell blog directories that you have published a new article on your blog. WordPress is set up to automatically ping Pingomatic. However, you can add other blog directories so that they are automatically pinged every time you publish new content. I like to ping Technorati, but have added several other services. In fact, I just updated my list to include all of those recommended by Pat in you post.

How to Set Up the WordPress Pining Service:

1. Go to your WordPress Admin Panel.

2. Go to the Options tab.

3. Go to the Writing tab and scroll down to the Update Services area.

4. Add the pinging services that you want to ping. I am pinging the following services. You can copy and paste this list into your pinging services list.

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2/

http://pingqueue.com/rpc/

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://www.bloglines.com/ping

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

5. Hit the Update Options Button to make sure that you additions are saved.

I have recently entered into a group writing project at Daily Blog Tips. I submitted my article on 10 Forums to Make You a Better Blogger. My article is in the Technology and Internet Category.  I am not sure that this is the most appropriate category for my article, but I hope people like it.

In addition to my article (a little cocky I know), I highly recommend reading the following articles.

1. How to Increase Your Blog Subscriber Number – TechnicalItch provide a really useful tip for encouraging people to subscribe to your blog.
2. Tips for Gaining Page Views and Returning Visitors Using Series Posts – Bluejar.com gives an awesome tip for increasing repeat visitors and RSS subscribers. By writing a series if you hook people into your topic with your first post, they will want to come back to you blog to read the next posts in your series.
3. 10 Ways to Show Reader Appreciation – Reader Appreciation Project has written a great article for how to show your readers that you appreciate them. Well, let me implement one of them here. If any of you would like to write an article here on Newest on the Net, please leave a comment below. I would love to show off your work here.
4. 5 Tips to Increase Comments – Ad Tracker writes a nice list of tips for increasing comments.  I really need help in this arena.  You are all so quiet.
5. 10 Easy Ways to Improve Your Blog Posts – While nothing in this list is profound, that is the point of this post.  These are some tried and true ways to improve your blog posts.  Every blog post would be much better if the writer followed these blogging tips.
6. 18 Ways For Writing Better Pay-Per-Click Ads – Derek Beau provides some great tips here for improving your PPC adds.
7. How I Improved My AdSense CTR by 51% Using Auction Ads – The Newspaper Blog has an ingenious idea for getting viewers to notice your AdSense Ads.  I will be adding AdSense to this blog shortly.
8. Simple SEO Tips to Improve Your Blog’s Search Rankings – Here are some simple tips for SEO optimizing your blog.  These are so simple and we should all implement these for our blogs.
9. Top 10 Tips For Driving Traffic AWAY From Your Website – These are some great tips for what to avoid doing.  Nice angle Binary Moon!!
10. 5 Tips to Being Interesting – This is a great article for all aspects of your life.  I must admit to you all that I have a habit of talking about myself too much.

One of the first thing that you should do when setting up a new blog on WordPress is to turn on permalinks. I do this before I post any articles, because I want all of my posts that are linked around the Internet to point back to the proper permalink. To set up permalinks, follow the following steps:

First: Go to your administration panel > options > permalinks

Second: Decide which version of permalinks your would like. WordPress has four options for permalinks.

• Default – This option is the standard permalink structure. Your posts will look like this, http://yourblog.com/?p=133. I do not like this option because it tells your readers nothing about the topic of your post. It solely tells them that this is the 133rd page on your site.
• Date and Named Based – This option is much better than the default because it tells your reader more information about this url. Your posts will look like this, http://yourblog.com/2009/09/13/post-title/. This is much better than the default, but I see no reason to display the date of the post.
• Numeric – This option is almost the same as the Default option. Your posts will look like this, http://yourblog.com/archive/133. Again, this only tell your readers that this is the 133rd page on your blog. Why would you readers care about this? They couldn’t care less.
• Custom – This is my favorite option. I like for my urls to look like this, http://newestonthenet.com/my-first-guest-blogging-gig/. Readers of Newest on the Net can immediately determine what this post is about. The title of this post is, My First Guest Blogging Gig. I believe that this is all my readers really care about. Besides being good for readers it is good for search engine optimization because my article keywords can be incorporated into my url.

Third: Once you decide that you want to use a customer permalink you need to type in the code for this custom permalink. I use the following code code – /%postname%/.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask by leaving a comment.