Why Pinging your weblog?

The purpose of pinging your blog/website is to tell dozens of services you have updated your site or created a new site. When you ping, these sites create a link back to your blog and blog entry.

Depending on the blogging service/program you use, your blog may automatically ping some blog notification sites for you. A ping is simply a message sent to various blog tracking sites to let them know that your blog has been updated.

If your blogging service/program does not do this for you, there are some tools that can do it for you.

Visit ping-o-matic and do it yourselve. Fill out the form and then check all the boxes in the "services to ping" section.

The only tricky part is making sure that you type your URL in the ping form exactly like it is listed with the different blog tracking services. For those of you using Blogger/Blogspot, you may need to ping twice as you have to different URL's - http://www.yourblogname.blogspot.com and http://yourblogname.blogspot.com.

Try the different combinations of your URL until you get the updated designation