ou’re a blogger and are like search engine spiders—both
constantly hearing about scan sites looking for
pinging. The thing is, you information, and both report that
don't know what it is and what it information back to their
can do for your blog. Well that's specific site. The difference is,
fine because a lot of bloggers a ping service only reports back
don't quite understand pinging. new blog posts.
In this article, I will explain
Why is pinging useful for my
what pinging is, how it helps blog?
your blog, and what the best
Pinging, in effect, tells
pinging services are. After people that there is a new blog
you've read this article, you'll posting available. Those who are
know exactly how to use pinging loyal followers of your blog will
to make your blog popular. see the ping and want to visit
What is pinging?
your blog. Those who haven’t read
When a blog is pinged, it your blog before will see the
essentially tells a web blog ping and perhaps think “hey,
tracking system that the blog has there’s a new blog I haven’t been
been updated. Thus, pinging is to before, I think I’ll check it
the process of telling tracking out”. Pinging helps to increase
services that a site has been your traffic because it tells
updated.
people when your blog is updated.
So how does pinging work? Those who visit sites with
Well, a ping service scans pinging services will see this
regularly blogs for updates. information in the form of a
Whenever there is a new update scroll on the left or right side,
for a particular blog, that is or top of the page. The scroll is
reported back to the pinging usually in XML format and
service’s site. You can almost typically includes the title and
think of ping services being just URL of your blog, as well as the
date and time of the update.
Blogrolling.com
OK, so now I know what pinging
Blogrolling allows its
is. Who offers pinging?
bloggers to manage their
The answer is, there are blogrolls(updates) through a
several pinging services web-based interface. Recently
available which you can use to updated blogs are also
have your blog pinged. We’ll go highlighted on Blogrolling’s web
over some of them right now. site. Data is automatically
Weblogs.com Weblogs.com is retrieved from other sites like
probably the most well-known blogger.com and weblogs.com every
pinging service. Weblogs.com 5 minutes. Often times your blog
monitors sites for updates and is already being pinged by
then pings whenever there is an Blogrolling, so you might not
update to report. Virtually every have to sign up for it. Search on
blog software is available to use the site first for your URL
Weblogs.
before signing it up.
Yahoo’s Blo.gs
Technorati
Another popular pinging
Technorati is another service
service. This one is offered by that pings blogs. It gets its
Yahoo and has a built-in data from a variety of places and
integration with movable type and is definitely a site you should
other tools. One cool thing about go to for blog pinging.
this service is that it offers
These are just 4 of the many
the ability to give out updates different blog pinging services
via Instant Messenging services available. A quick search on
like AOL and ICQ. It is a direct Yahoo or Google will reveal many
pinging service, so those who other possible blog pinging
sign up for subscriptions to your services to use for your blog. It
blog will be sent an email is best to sign up for as many as
anytime your blog is updated.
you possibly can to ensure that
your blog is well-pinged. A
well-pinged blog will definitely google_ad_height = 90;
help your blog attract more
visitors. So sign up for as many google_ad_format =
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About the Author:
Tim McLendon is owner of BandoMarketing.com and writes on tips to improve your Internet Home Based Business.
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