How to add tags in blog using Windows Live Writer?

Windows Live Writer is a free, downloadable program that works with most popular blogging services, including Blogger. Use Writer to create and format blog posts with rich content, such as maps, tables, hyperlinks, tags (Keywords that can be assigned to a blog post to indicate which category or categories it belongs to. Writer allows tags to be added to blog posts from various social bookmarking websites. When the blog post is published, the tag is hyperlinked to the social bookmarking website, and automatically triggers a search for items with the same tag.) , and categories.

On the right panel of Windows Live Writer, click on Tags (as shown in screenshot). A new window would open. Choose your tag platform like Technorati or LiveJournal or customize your own.  Enter comma separated tags. You can place these tags above or below the post.

 

 

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And don’t forget to set ‘categories’ at the bottom of Windows Live Writer. ‘categories’ on Windows Live Writer and ‘Labels’ on Blogger are the same things.

How to send pings to different servers using windows live writer?

Windows live writer has a cool feature of sending pings to various web directories. Whenever you will publish a new post, windows live writer will send ping to your provided list of servers. Hence they would know about your new contents.

To use this feature go to tools menu of windows live writer. Click on options > Ping Servers. Enable this feature  and enter the URLs of ping servers. Following is a list of ping server which i found from a site.

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://ping.feedburner.com/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2     
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/     
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://xmlrpc.bloggernetz.de/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping
http://ping.wordblog.de/
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://blogsearch.google.de/ping/RPC2
http://ping.namaan.net/rpc
http://rpc.technorati.jp/rpc/ping
http://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
http://rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/

After entering above URLs click on Apply and OK. Its set now to ping. See a screenshot below:

Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer is a software for your PC to create and manage your blogs in online and offline mode. Its really cool program for almost all popular blog services. You would find it really helpful specially if you are not good with HTML or coding. Add easily hyperlinks, pictures, photo albums, videos, tables, maps, tags and many more with simple clicks to your blog.

I recommend this program for your blog. To download and installing instructions, go to Windows Live Writer page.