Ping Your Blog

If you're new to blogging, then you need to understand the concept of pinging and why it's important. When you ping your blog, you're basically telling the search engines, RSS feeds and other interested blog sites know that you have updated your blog. This is important because this is how your blog gets noticed. Remember back in high school when the principal would get on the intercom and tell the whole school that an important event is coming? Well, this is just like that. When you ping your blog, you're letting everybody know to go check out your blog. It's really not that hard, most of these sites only asks for a site name and your URL so it's easy and quick. There are lots of FREE blog pinger sites that you can visit so take advantage of these services: Pingomatic - this is by far the most popular among bloggers. It pings several popular sites and other specialized sites as well. Don't forget to create a bookmark for each ping url. Pingoat - Pings 52 blogging sites, including special sites and non english tracking sites. You can easily select all services by selecting the category. King Ping - Pings 18 sites. Bookmark this page. Blogflux Pinger - Pings 32 sites, including several specialized and language specific sites . Feedshark - Ping, submit, & promote your blog, feed, or podcast for free to multiple services. BlogBlip - Submits to 15 popular blog tracking sites. Ping The Empire - Pings 18 blog sites. Pingates - Pings 37 sites and includes Japanese ping sites too. Ping.In - notifies several Blog Search Engines and blog directories. Autopinger -automatically pings your selected blog sites. Has a XML-RPC interface too. As far as pinging too much, I have no idea. I usually ping everytime I post something whether it's once or ten times a day. I do not know if there is a limit as to how much you can ping in a day so if you have the answer, feel free to leave a comment so everybody knows. Now that you know how to ping your blog, there is no excuse for you not to get noticed out there. As for me, I'm out to ping this post! Till next time...blog and ping!