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How To Ping Your Blog

It has been slow Friday, blogwise. As a nooblogger, it's 'aint easy to jump-start a blog in an otherwise crowded field of Tech. Well, unless you really have some really superdooper-mega-over special invention--which is really rare in most cases. Now, what to do? hmmmm.... Ping! Did a lightbulb just turn on over my head? Well, no, not really.

In the field of Information Technology, PING is a computer network administration utility/command to test whether a particular host (another PC) is reachable across an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

In blogging, PING is a push mechanism by which a blog notifies a server that its content has been updated. When you PING your blog, you're basically jumping up and down, and yelling to the search engines that, "Hey, check out my website/blog. I've got something new for ya!" ...without really being paranoid about it.


By pinging your blog, you are actually helping Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engine spiders to crawl on your site much faster, getting your blog indexed much faster. Now, real spiders are icky, I know. But these spiders are not going to make your site icky, in fact they're going to help your blog rank higher on the search engines. Higher Page rank means more prospective readers for your blog.

See, one of the most common mistakes many bloggers make is that once you've put up a cool website or blog, everything will work itself out. But no, Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines have their own timing and way of when and how to update their databases and scale ranks. However with proper Search Optimization Techniques and pinging your blog, you can help the search engines in getting some of the work done.

Here's a list of pinging sites I found on the web to get you jump-started.

http://google.com/blogsearch?hl=en
http://autopinger.com/
http://www.pingmyblog.com/
http://feedshark.brainbliss.com/
http://pingomatic.com/
http://ping.in/
http://bpinger.com/
http://pingates.com/
http://www.feedping.com/
http://pingler.com/
http://www.pingthatblog.com/
http://ping.fm/blog/
http://www.twingly.com/ping2
http://www.kping.com/

Ping! Literally!

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