Blogging Basics: Pinging

So you created a blog. You have all these great ideas that you want to express, you have a myspace or blogger account set up, but people aren’t reading what your writing. One thing that you can do it go around posting links to what you have written on every message board on the net, but that will only annoy people into never wanting to read anything that you have to say. Another approach would be to get other sites to link to yours, but your going to have to do a log of e-mailing to get any decent traffic, and even then most people will only go once, and will have no idea when you make any updates.

Well fortunately, there is a solution, and it is called pinging. Pinging allows you to send a message to other sites every time you update your blog. This allows people to search for blogs on particular subjects, and at the same time view new blogs as they are being posted. Some sites like myspace will automatically ping your blog for you, so you don’t need to worry too much about it. With blogger you need to ping. They have one built in pinging tool, but that will not be enough, you need to visit one or more others if you ever want to get any visitors.

Before I start listing some blog pinging sites, your going to need two things: 1. The URL to your blog and 2. the url for the RSS or ATOM feed for your blog. With blogger you can find these on the bottom of your posts if you keep the setting turned on.

With these two items on to the pinging sites:
www.weblogs.com
www.feedburner.com
www.feedster.com
www.blogdigger.com
www.moreover.com
www.newsisfree.com
www.blo.gs
www.syndic8.com
www.blogrolling.com
www.weblogalot.com
www.technorati.com
www.newsgator.com
www.pubsub.com
www.blogstreet.com
www.icerocket.com