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John – thanks for your input – took a look at your site – will keep this in mind – Jim

Hi Moshu – actually, I did follow that link as well as #4 – what I should have commented is that I read the article but due to no knowlege of php, didn’t really understand the article. I’ve done very little of my own work at this point – have a friend who can help out – this is in dreamweaver – maybe he will understand the more technical end of this. I’m not sure as he is learning as well.

I will see what next week brings – integrating it in is the only real question I am facing at the moment – the rest of my questions seem to be ironing out and I think I will get the feed / audio into podcast stuff – it’s just this aspect of bringing the two together.

Thanks ??

Moshu – that ansered some of the questions. Thanks

What I didn’t get is the thread as it seemed to have other things – still not clear about how to have the blog inserted into the middle (with top and both right / left text – then blog in that and extending downward….

Any ideas?

I found that – Thanks Haecceity – I’m going through comments there – I’ll see if that answers all of my questions.

I think I am 90% there – thanks a lot – just what is “tell IT to do the pinging” – what is “IT”?

thanks

Jim

Moshu – I followed the thread. The comments it took me to didn’t exaclty answer HOW TO put the blog in various places, like in the middle of the home page.

Do you have any other comments / references

Thanks

Jim

Thanks – I guess this is an unravling journey – so if ping says I’ve been UPDATED – how does using keywords in the headline and text of post improve responses

And, is it in the Feedburner (I set it up – and put in my keywords / keyword phrases) that the keywords determine who hear’s the PING (ie, what blog directories register this as relevant and in what way – which takes me back to my first comment – about using keywords in headline and text)

Thanks for any insights

Jim

Moshu – thanks.

If I understand you – it pings today even though the post isn’t there for 3 weeks.

Does that confuse the blog search engines (and does it only ping on the headline or the entire content)

That brings this up – if it pings NOW – where do people go based on the ping – just my blog in general?

I’m new to blogging so some of this is just figuring out what even happens when a search engine is pinged

Thanks again for your comments

Jim

Thanks HandySolo – the answer that concerns me is it won’t run the ping services at the future time – why not? that’s rather critical isn’t it – without the pings, no one know you posted. How can you get it to ping when posted if not posted immediately ?

I want to insert it in the middle of home page (I have text above and on both sides – it would go within that then stretch as far down as needed – by the way, I have 2 other questions

can I set how many days a post stays on blog before going into history, and how

how do I schedule posts – so today is tuesday but I want it to appear next week on a given date / time

thanks