Internet Marketing Tools - Ping Your Blogs For Search Engine Attention

You have built your blog and you are making posts to it every day. Excellent! You are using one of the really great internet marketing tools to get traffic and build your list-blogging and creating new, unique content. However to really make the most of it you have to be sure the search engines find you. How do you do that? Of course you will be using keywords and you will also be "Pinging" your blog.

What the heck does it mean to ping your blog?

Without getting super technical about it (because that is just not necessary), pinging is a way to notify the search engines that you have posted new content to your blog. You may remember that one of the reasons search engines like Google love blogs is because they have lots of unique content and they are updated regularly.

Well, if the search engine is a bull and you are the matador, then pinging is like waving the big red cape to get the bull's attention!

There are a couple ways to ping your blog...but the easiest is to use a free service that pings a lot of ping sites all at once. One of the services that we recommend is Pingoat.

It is very easy process, just go to Pingoat and fill in the name and URL of your blog. If you are using XML feeds you can fill this box in, but if you aren't...or if you don't know what that means...then leave that box empty.

Now you can see the list of places that will be pinged...I suggest you simply click "General" and it will automatically check all the boxes in that category. You can also check each site manually if you prefer, but why take that time?

Unless your blog is in a language other than English, leave the next section blank. Don't check the Special Services area either at this point.

Then all you have to do is click the Go Pingoat button and Pingoat will notify all those services that you have added new content. You will then see a notification that the sites have been pinged.

Another site that works very much the same way is Ping-O-Matic. Choose one site or the other, but don't do both. You don't want to ping more than once each time you add content because that can be considered spamming.

It really is that simple to get the attention of the search engines. By using these awesome, free, internet marketing tools you are waving a big red cape and letting the big bull know you have new content. That leads to more traffic and a bigger list.

Tellman Knudson, CEO of OvercomeEverything, Inc., is a master list builder, self-made millionaire and well-known for his Listbuilding Club. Tellman teaches you his system for list building using a variety of internet marketing tools and strategies including blogging. To learn more about the Listbuilding Club, please visit http://ListSpeed.com/.