Ping Services help your blog get found.  If you have a blog on your website and you want the blog to be found by prospects and people searching for your products and services, then you should be using "blog ping services" to promote your blog in the vast array of blog directories and blog search engines.

If you're using your blog for search engine optimization, then you absolutely need to know about and be using ping services.

What are blog directories and blog search engines?  Blog directories and blog search engines help web surfers explore the blogging universe. As you probably know, there are millions of blogs on thousands of topics.  People interested in a  particular topic often seek out blogs on that  topic.  Blogs often contain the latest most up to date info on a topic, which is why blogging has become so popular.

So whether your looking for smart phone reviews, political commentary, gourmet salad recipes or anything else, you can use a blog directory or blog search engine to find out what people are saying on your topic of choice.  You can also use blog directories and search to discover and follow the hottest topics on the Internet.  

Google has a very poplar Blog Search service, check it out here: http://blogsearch.google.com

OK, back to blog ping services.  A ping service helps get you listed in blog directories and search engines.

You can manually notify individual blog directories and search engines about your blog update, but this is way too time consuming.  A ping services will automatically notify the numerous 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.

You need to submit your blog address to the ping service.  The ping service will then notify a select list of blog directories and search engines about your blog update.  There are dozens of ping services, many with industry specific blog directories they notify.  There are even ping services that submit your blog update to multiple ping services.

Here is a list of some popular ping services.

• http://pingomatic.com
• http://ping.feedburner.com
• http://pingoat.com
• http://pingates.com/
• http://www.pingmyblog.com
• http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

For the blogs we build or maintain, we usually include an automatic blog ping extension right in the blog software.  The automatic blog ping will notify one or more ping services immediately after you submit a new blog update.  The popular blog platforms Wordpress and Joomla both offer automatic ping extensions.  This is a real time saver and ensures you don't forget to ping your blog after each update and they are a great way to notify multiple ping services automatically.

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