Ping services allow you to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated. The bigger your ping list the higher the chances of receiving traffic from those sources, so check out the list below and include it on your blog (WordPress users can modify their ping list on the Control Panel, then Options, then Writing).

There is a list of Ping Services here.  Just click right here to copy the list

If you have a WordPress blog, you can add this list to the backend of your WordPress site.

On your dashboard, click on Settings and then Writing, scroll down and you will see the section to add this list.  There will probably be Pingomatic.com there already, just copy this list and paste into that section, Pingomatic is included in the list, and don’t forget to hit the Update button.  Then each time you post to your blog, these sites will be notified.

I’m not sure how well this works anymore, blog and ping seems to have been pushed aside by other things like RSS etc, but you never know and getting traffic is not just reserved to the latest thing.  RSS has been around for quite some time but is very much in vogue right now and Ping has taken a back seat.  There are very successful marketers who still swear by the pinging technique.

So, to save yourself getting accused of spamming, this could easily happen if you go back and edit your post a couple of times very soon after publishing, there is a plugin called MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer:

MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer is included in My WordPress Plugins or your can download it here. The download link is at the bottom of the page.

After you install MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer…..

» When you create a new post, your blog will ping and notify all the ping services that it has been updated. This encourages search engines and different blog directories/services to index your updated blog properly.

» When you edit an existing post, it won’t send any unnecessary ping to ping services and saves your blog from getting banned by such services.

» When you post a future post by editing the time stamp, it will ping only when your post appears in future. It won’t unnecessarily ping many times when you schedule posts as WordPress does by default.

So there you go, blog and ping to your heart’s content without having to go to the ping sites, even if it gets you only a few extra visitors, it didn’t take time from your busy schedule.

Cheers
Catch you later
Carmel