Ping Your Blog With Blog Ping

A weblog ping is a broadcast that dozens of services receive and either compile a list or feed a list of freshly updated blogs. The lists are displayed at feed readers for web users to browse looking for content that may interest them.

Squidoo lenses are nothing more than single post blogs, so a very powerful way to get the word out about new content in your lens is to provide a ping. Often we log into several ping services that will ping blogs and/or lenses to several rss feed readers, but the free tool Blog Ping requires no log in and the blogger can pre-load any and all ping services they typically use. Not only can services be pre-loaded, but so can blogs and lenses. This can be very handy if the lensmaster/blogger has a regular schedule of posting and updates.

Use Caution When Pinging:
Remember that you should only ping your blog or lenses when there is fresh content. Too many pings without new updates may lead to being marked as a "spammer". These types of pings are known as "spings" due to the practice by many unethical bloggers of pinging to call attention to keywords.

Do not ping more than once a day. Create a cadence. Potential readers will begin to look for your material on a regular basis, but if they come and only see content they have already read you can kiss them good bye.

In the following tutorial, you'll learn how to set-up a pre-loaded Blog Submission list. Create several that you can rotate in and out of the Blog Ping folder. Put yourself on a lens and blog update schedule, and this tool can save you tremendous amounts of time.

Happy Blogging!

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