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Where to Ping your RSS feeds for more traffic?

Business Blogs, RSS February 21st, 2007

Major search engines crawl the web to find updates which is extremely inefficient and too slow, especially in the blogsphere. Pingomatic.com or ipings.com is designed for tracking blogs simply by accepting a title, blog post url, then there is an option called a ping, that lets the blog search engines and services to know that a blog was updated.

Why use RSS feeds?

Using RSS feeds, webmasters can put their content into a standardized format, which can be viewed and organized through RSS-aware software or automatically conveyed as new content on another website.You can also have advertising in RSS Feeds and if If the RSS feed contains quality content, the ads are relevant, and the volume of ads is in balance with the volume of content served, advertising in RSS feeds will succeed.

Do the pinging services ask for a signup?

These pinging services are really easy to use, no sign up needed, and pings fast.

List of services and blog search engines at Pingomatic.com and ipings.com

Services:

Weblogs.com
Technorati
Blo.gs
Syndic8
WeBlogAlot.com

More services:

Feed Burner
NewsGator
Feedster
My Yahoo!
PubSub.com
Blogdigger
BlogRolling
BlogStreet
Moreover

Specialized Services

Audio.Weblogs
RubHub
A2B GeoLocation
BlogShares

The list of blog services and blog search engines provided above can be pinged individually or can be pinged by pingomatic.com or ipings.com. I would suggest creating a few descriptions of your blog and then submitting both your blog and RSS URLs to the appropriate RSS and blog directories and search engines.

2 Responses to “Where to Ping your RSS feeds for more traffic?”

  1. admin.bloglinx Says:

    Check out blogLinx at http://bloglinx.bravehost.com. It’s a great way to manage your blogroll. It also doesn’t require any pinging!

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