If you’re trying to make money blogging, pinging your posts is a great practice. Free services like Ping-o-matic, Technorati and Pingoat are free services you can sign up to that let you let the world know you’ve updated your blog. Pinging literally ‘pings’ online services to say, “Hey, new content over here!”
Don’t Forget Tagging
If you tag your blog posts with relevant categories or keywords, people looking for information in cyberspace can find you based on those particular keywords. There are a lot of different social bookmarking and social networking tools you can use to help promote your blog.
Blog Marketing Checklist
Here are a few tips to help you optimize your blogging efforts:
- Do I have a catchy title? Will people want to visit my blog based on what they see in search engines or social marketing websites?
- Have I chosen categories and tags that reflect my subject matter so the search engines know what my blog is about?
- Have I let the world know I’ve updated with pinging and social bookmarking?
Blogs are a great way to sell something and promote yourself as a professional. There are loads of blog gurus like John Chow and Problogger that can help you learn more about maximising the potential of the blog.
Have a most outstanding day.
Sean RasmussenAussie Internet Marketing
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008 - 2010
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Thank you for the great articles
Pinging is still a bit of a secret for me – ok, I know that sounds stupid but I admit it
As long as it helps I will keep on doing it.
I am doing it on my blogs, but still not sure what I am actually doing
Pinging should all be taken care of in Wordpress automatically Renee. All you need to do is put a list of ping URL’s into settings>>writing>>update services within the WP dashboard. The MBP ping optimiser plugin is also recommended.