The other day I found this site called Ping-o-Matic! Ping-o-Matic's main purpose is to let the major blog/rss aggeregator sites know that you've updated your blog. I am going to try Ping-o-Matic after I post this, and if seems beneficial, I'll make a script to automatically send a ping when I post new stuff.

Also, at the moment I only have 1 RSS feed, which gets content from my blog. I am going to start making feeds for each topic in my forums, and see if that helps get more visitors that are looking for specific topics.

SproutSearch, my blog search engine, now has thousands of feed files, thanks to a new RSS script that I wrote. I will try to get some of those distributed on the aggreagators.

In a few seconds I will send a ping.
http://pingomatic.com/

A while back, I added tagging to my forum/blog program. I included tags in my RSS feed so that Technorati and other sites could categorize my posts. Today I've made a Tag Cloud page, which makes pages of articles with the same tags. These pages should make my contextual advertising work better.

I have started working on an RSS search engine to add to SproutSearch (http://www.sproutsearch.com). I used SimpleXml to parse the RSS. This makes it really easy to parse them. The general idea I have is to store items from the feeds in a database, along with their tag information. Then I can generate a bunch of tag pages once I have gathered enough items.

The tags will have their own pages on SproutSearch, but I am also thinking of combining all the different sources into one page. So, on a topic page, it might have some listings from Blogger, some from LiveJournal, and some from RSS. As I add more data sources, those can be integrated as well. Then it would have links to view a more detailed listing of a particular data source.

I've added some basic pagination to the RSS Search Engine. I made a script that draws an arrow and a page number for the page buttons.
http://www.sproutsearch.com/feeds

More features will be coming.

Also, sproutworks.com is now hosted at DreamHost. It's using PHP 5 and MySQL 5. I added a maze to the left column. This maze will link to a maze demo page.