5 Do you "Ping"? If you don't, you probably should...
Saturday, June 23, 2007 /

In blog terms, a "ping" notifies servers that keep track of weblogs that you have recently updated your blog. There are many such services available, most notably Weblogs and Technorati. Your blogging platform may already ping one or two of these services automatically each time you post, but to ping a number of services each time would be time consuming and could slow down your publishing.

Here are a few services which accept pings from weblogs:

And there are many more besides!

Pinging weblog servers is a good idea as it ensures fresh content from your blog is always available to them; this in turn can help generate more traffic to your blog. An easy way to ping several servers at once is to use a pinging service, such as Pingoat or Ping-o-Matic. You simply input the name, URL and RSS feed (optional) of your blog and these free services do all the hard work for you! You can even bookmark the page for an automatic ping each time you load it.

Much easier than visiting a dozen websites each time you update, or waiting for ages for your blog to publish and ping!

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5 comments:

February 14, 2009 at 9:47 PM Cole said...

Blogger should really add some sort of automatic pinging service like Wordpress offers. Having to manually ping every time I update is ridiculous.

April 17, 2009 at 7:12 PM
gojeg said...

yup.. im agree with Cole.. it's take too much time.

April 17, 2009 at 11:55 PM SEO Services said...

A lot of useful information in those links, thanks. I feel that it might even be too much for me to “digest” in just one week.

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September 3, 2009 at 9:24 AM Marie said...

I ping every time I update with the flexibility of selecting the ones you want or check all it makes it quites simple. Many of the ping services offer the same options for pings. You don't want to ping the same content multiple time, this may get you banned from the services. I say do the work now and reap the benefits later ... It is worth it.

Marie

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