Are You Pinging Your Blog Posts?
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
If you’re trying to make money blogging, pinging your posts is a great practice. Free services like Ping-o-matic, Technorati and Pingoat are free services you can sign up to that let you let the world know you’ve updated your blog. Pinging literally ‘pings’ online services to say, “Hey, new content over here!”
Don’t Forget Tagging
If you tag your blog posts with relevant categories or keywords, people looking for information in cyberspace can find you based on those particular keywords. There are a lot of different social bookmarking and social networking tools you can use to help promote your blog.
Blog Marketing Checklist
Here are a few tips to help you optimize your blogging efforts:
- Do I have a catchy title? Will people want to visit my blog based on what they see in search engines or social marketing websites?
- Have I chosen categories and tags that reflect my subject matter so the search engines know what my blog is about?
- Have I let the world know I’ve updated with pinging and social bookmarking?
Blogs are a great way to sell something and promote yourself as a professional. There are loads of blog gurus like John Chow and Problogger that can help you learn more about maximising the potential of the blog.
