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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.

If you don't have a FeedBurner account, register for one. It's a quick and easy way to publish your Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feed around the internet.

Use FeedBurner as your main feed subscription for your site and while you're in FeedBurn configuring it to ping your web favourite web services. There is an option under the Publicize tab for your feed called PingShot. This will give your site a kick in the ass and notifiy all of the ping services that you could possibly think of.

The main list of ping services include:

• Technorati
• My Yahoo
• Bloglines
• NewsGator
• Google Blog Search, and
• Ping-o-matic

If you are signing up to FeedBurner or like this article, make sure you sign up for the feed on my Blog too.

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written by v3sh , October 06, 2008

thanks. I'm going to try this =)

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written by Lisa , February 06, 2009

Great article, has helped with traffic. I have also started using BlogBuzzer.com

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written by html templates , February 20, 2009

Excellent opost on informing everyone on how to use feedburner for handsfree syndication, but did you also know that you can use feedburner to convert your feed into a podcast as well. This is also a powerful means of diversifying traffic through podcast directories and such. You can also monetize your feeds and create a rotating banner of your latest headlines as well. Feedburner is an excellent choice for diversifying traffic.

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written by Peter Bui , February 20, 2009

Yes thanks for pointing that out. Making money from your feeds is always good. I hope everyone is taking advantage of that where they can.

And thank you for pointing the fact that you can turn the feed in to a podcast. I don't do that myself but I'm sure many other people will find that very useful.

The upgrades in Joomla 1.6 should be interesting.

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