A blog pinging service notifies blog search engines and blog directories when you make a new blog post to your blog. It can also notify RSS feed aggregators, should you so desire, this is recommended as a link popularity and a link building strategy too.

Pinging ensures that other pinging sites are also alerted when your blog is updated. Visitors to these sites will be able to see your blog flash across the side of the screen when it is updated. If they subscribe to RSS feeds, the information will appear on their own blog. Hundreds of thousands of bloggers regularly use blog directories and blog search engines giving you a very good chance that a number of them will visit your blog to check out your new content.

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The Internet is full of Saturday Morning Bloggers. These bloggers ignore their blogs all week, then they post a few dozen articles in their blog and then spend a few hours adding comments to other blogs. This is a great way to spend a Saturday, but it provides very little SEO marketing benefits.

Search engines need a steady flow of comments. Most blogs that appear in a web search have a post that has been published within the last few hours. Dozens of blog search engines operate for the sole purpose of alerting the big five search engines of new content. The posts that you publish on Saturday are already out of the lists by Sunday afternoon. That is why it is important to provide the search engines with fresh content daily.

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One of the techniques that bloggers use to announce new content on their weblog is to ping it every time they create new content or a new blog entry. A ping is a signal which is sent to a ping server to let it know that a blog has been updated and which also allows blog search engines, like Technorati, to know that there is fresh new content on your blog. One of the most popular free ping providers is pingomatic.com.

This is important to do after each post because it updates search engine databases, which, in turn, can bring more visitors to your blog (assuming that one of your goals is to have more readers of your blog). This is so because a lot of the blog search engines rank freshest (or newest) results first.

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Although submitting your blog to the search engines is very similar to submitting your website, there are several differences that you should be aware of. Knowing these differences can help you get your blog indexed more quickly because you have submitted your blog correctly.

Regardless of whether you are submitting a blog or a website, if you are submitting to Google, you should create a sitemap. Although you should check your sitemap periodically to make sure Google isn’t encountering any errors with your sitemap, once you submit it, you don’t have to submit to Google again. All you have to do is keep your sitemap up to date.

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Bloggers often ask how to get their blog listed in the major search engines.

Here’s how:

1. Submit Directly: Submit your blog via Google’s free submitting form. http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

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When reading about search engine optimization, page rank and getting more traffic to your blog, you may have come across the term backlinks. Backlinks also known as inbound links and incoming links are links from other websites to your site.

Having backlinks is vital to your blog, as it helps increase its popularity. There are many means available to check your incoming links.

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Blogs are a great form of information these days! People can post blogs about anything and readers will dash to them to read it. I use blogs as a way to interact and update friends and family.

It’s so much easier than sender email. However, using blogs as a from of SEO can be a creative and inventive way to generate traffic to your site. Many people and companies seek blog writers on millions of topics. Paying them to write anything they want about various topics only stimulation is that key words have to be placed throughout the blog a certain number of times and a specific way.

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I get on average around 10,000 to 12,000 unique visitors
to my main site each month. Actually, when you’re speaking
about the Internet, that’s not too much to brag about, but
it’s better than getting say 1000 or 2000 visitors; that
was my usual rate until I aggressively went after targeted
traffic for my site.

I thought I would briefly and in very simple terms explain
how I increased the targeted traffic to my main site from
around 1,000 to 10,000 unique visitors each month. That’s
a ten-fold increase — I am aiming for a hundred-fold increase
but would gladly settle for thirty or forty times the traffic.

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