If you are a blogger, I am sure that you are constantly hearing about pinging your blog. But do you know what it is or how it works?
What is blog pinging? Blog pinging tells people when new content has been added to your blog. It is an incredibly useful, and easy to sign up for service, so be sure to sign your blog up for as many pinging services as your find.
How does pinging work? A ping service scans regularly blogs for updates. Whenever there is a new content for a particular blog. Unlike search engine spiders that report back both content and updated content, a ping service only reports back new blog posts.
Why is pinging useful for my blog? Basically it tells people that there is something new to read on your blog. After your blog has been running for a couple weeks you should notice that you have loyal readers and by pinging your blog your are informing those readers that your site has new content. Pinging helps to increase your traffic and if you are a blogger traffic is everything.
So now the important question:
Who offers pinging?
There are several pinging services available which you can use to ping your blog.
Weblogs.com
Weblogs.com is probably the most popular pinging service. It monitors sites for updates and then pings whenever there is an update to report.
Yahoo’s Blogs
This one is offered by Yahoo it offers the ability to send out updates using Instant Messenger services like AOL and ICQ. It is a direct pinging service, so those who sign up for your blog will be sent an email anytime your blog is updated.
Blogrolling.com
Blogrolling allows its bloggers to manage their blogrolls (updates) through a web-based interface. Updated blogs are highlighted on Blogrolling’s web site.
There are many different blog pinging services available. If you do a quick search Google you will find all the possible blog pinging service sites. Again sign up for as money as possible to drive traffic to your blog.
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