Issue 64 : Pinging Your Blog to the Top!
While you may think that readers will just come to your website and find your content on their own, it takes a good amount of internet marketing experience to be able to rank high in the search engines with no help at all. The best way to keep your blog growing is to steadily build up traffic, rss subscribers and build backlinks! Until you have established yourself as an authority on the subject, surfers won’t just float over willingly to your website if they don’t know that it is out there!
A great way to start getting your blog out there to be noticed is by pinging different blogging services after you complete a new post! This can be as easy as clicking your mouse on a button or link that is neatly labeled “Ping!”
When you send out a ping it is like a way of telling blog search engines that you have just recently updated and that your blog should be crawled. The search engine will then send out a ‘crawler’ to your blog and find anything new and it will be posted on their own website. This is an extremely simple way to build your blog’s traffic. There are a lot of ways to build traffic for a blog but if you know anything about internet marketing; sometimes you just have to combine them all for the best results!
Remember that while you may come across offers that require you to pay to use a pinging service, the process can be done for free.. so don’t fall into those traps! We are quite aware that there is a lot of scams and cheaters on the internet and the best way to be successful is to avoid them!
One of the better known blog bookmarking websites is Technorati.com and I recently wrote a post about why you should use Technorati.com to rank your blog! If you are looking for an easy way to ping multiple websites at the same time every time you finish posting a new article on your page you can visit http://www.pingoat.com or http://www.pingomatic.com.
Ping these websites after each post and you will notice an increase in blog traffic! Don’t let yourself think that just because it is such a small action that it doesn’t affect your blog’s performance!
In the next issue of the ‘ONE YEAR MILLIONAIRE‘ I am going to talk about Technorati Tags and why you should use them in your blog posts!
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