How to Ping Your Blog

If you have a blog that you are updating weekly or even daily, you will want to ping your blog to insure that the search engines and sites linking to your RSS feed always have the latest updates. Pinging your blog can actually increase traffic and get your blog more recognition from interested web browsers. Below are some tips on how to ping your blog...

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Technorati: Register your blog on the Technorati website and you can ping your blog whenever you make an update. This is one website that nearly every popular blog is listed on.

2. Ping-O-Matic: This is an amazing website that will ping your blog on every network possible. Simply fill in your URL and check off where you would like your blog to be pinged. There are choices such as Feedburner, My Yahoo and NewsGator.

3. Add a Pinging Plug-In: If you have a WordPress blog, you can add the Ping Optimizer plug-in as well as other choices like the TweetSuite and TweetBacks. This is great because the pinging is done automatically each time you add a new post to your blog.

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[thereadyreader]

on 10/24/2009 great tips on pinging your blog!

[ringgold]

on 8/4/2009 Thanks for the advice.