So, you just had a web site made but no one is calling and you're not making any sales. If you had in your mind that all you to do was make a web site to start getting all of those leads and sales then you might need a little bit of re-education. You know that old quote from the movie Field of Dreams, “If you build it and he will come,” well it’s not quite the case. In fact it very much is the opposite when it comes to web sites.

Building a website is just one step in the process of promoting your business online.

Once you have your website up and running you really want to be driving traffic to your website. More importantly, you will be wanting relevant traffic. Specific web surfers that are looking for your products or services from your business. With relevant traffic your site will join the millions of lifeless sites in cyber space.

A lot of people use Joomla as a blog. Now compared to other blogging applications out there it is very powerful, but it is missing a few key features here and there.

The key feature that I'd like to talk about is ping services for Joomla.

If you use Word Press, you'll know that you can set it up to ping these web services and let them know that there are new posts on your website as soon as your article is published. Now, Joomla doesn't have this built in to it. So, here is how you get around it quickly and easily.