Getting traffic to your blog or site is pretty cumbersome process,
yet still many site owners get it done. Driving traffic to your site, is
a big issue and a totally different category of articles. One of the
main thing about bringing huge traffic or unique visitor to your site is
by 'Pinging your content'. Now what exactly is pinging? Its a process
of sending updates from your blog to various search engines and blog
feeds. Not every search engine crawls or indexes your web page quickly,
hence forth a ping or notification to the search engines is required in
order that your web page is indexed quickly. For Blogspot users this is
pretty much compulsory and must follow concept.
Ping or Pinging is a tool basically available on internet, this tool was firstly introduced by WordPress which is kind of god in area of blogging, but limited number of options for a newbie, for a professional blogger its the best way to blog. One of the site is 'Ping-o-matic' which basically provide information to selected websites, every time you've pinged your content. This in a way submits your article to as many sites as possible. This enhances the SEO abilities of your site, in a way increasing your PR(page rank - made by Google). The better the PR, better is the traffic to your site.
There are many other sites which help bloggers to ping their content, so as to increase the blog popularity. There is also another way of recognizing your site, by just submitting your blog to as many as blog directories, which do similar sort of work as 'Ping sites do!'.
In this article I'll help you how to use a pinging service with http://www.totalping.com/
Step1: Load the above URL into your address bar. And check the three text boxes.
Step2: Enter your blog name, URL and feed link in the respective areas.
Step3: Check all the pings mentioned and click 'Make Ping'.
That's about it, you have now pinged your site to various services and search engines. Pinging services are available free for wordpress users. All you need to do is enter the list of services that offer pinging services. Then wordpress tool itself pings every now and then. For blogspot users this is the one the easiest and best est methods to get to recognize your blog and increase the popularity of the blog. Rumors have been that due to latest Google Panda search algorithm update, there have been misconceptions that comment links or commenting on various blogs have lesser effect on your backlinks than from getting a direct traffic to your blog. Not that I believe in rumors, but I go with the flow. Most bloggers won't comment, then so do I. But its always better to be on the safer side and keep commenting, so that you can at least keep your traffic steady. So, Pinging does provide you with great opportunities and help search engines to know better about your blog and its popularity.
Ping or Pinging is a tool basically available on internet, this tool was firstly introduced by WordPress which is kind of god in area of blogging, but limited number of options for a newbie, for a professional blogger its the best way to blog. One of the site is 'Ping-o-matic' which basically provide information to selected websites, every time you've pinged your content. This in a way submits your article to as many sites as possible. This enhances the SEO abilities of your site, in a way increasing your PR(page rank - made by Google). The better the PR, better is the traffic to your site.
There are many other sites which help bloggers to ping their content, so as to increase the blog popularity. There is also another way of recognizing your site, by just submitting your blog to as many as blog directories, which do similar sort of work as 'Ping sites do!'.
In this article I'll help you how to use a pinging service with http://www.totalping.com/
Step1: Load the above URL into your address bar. And check the three text boxes.
Step2: Enter your blog name, URL and feed link in the respective areas.
Step3: Check all the pings mentioned and click 'Make Ping'.
That's about it, you have now pinged your site to various services and search engines. Pinging services are available free for wordpress users. All you need to do is enter the list of services that offer pinging services. Then wordpress tool itself pings every now and then. For blogspot users this is the one the easiest and best est methods to get to recognize your blog and increase the popularity of the blog. Rumors have been that due to latest Google Panda search algorithm update, there have been misconceptions that comment links or commenting on various blogs have lesser effect on your backlinks than from getting a direct traffic to your blog. Not that I believe in rumors, but I go with the flow. Most bloggers won't comment, then so do I. But its always better to be on the safer side and keep commenting, so that you can at least keep your traffic steady. So, Pinging does provide you with great opportunities and help search engines to know better about your blog and its popularity.
