Ping-O-Matic is a very good service to notify the blog rolls that you have updated your blog. This is a product of WordPress product that allows bloggers and web site owners to send messages to social bookmarking services, such as Facebook, Technorati, Digg, and 25 others when a page is published or updated. The sending of the message to bookmarking sites is referred to as a "Ping."
Another good service to use also is OnlyWire.com. This is a free social bookmarking service and does the same as Ping-O-Matic with 27 social bookmarking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg (the best) and many others. The difference here is that OnlyWire.com posts to your own pages which you have developed on each of the bookmarking sites.
With that in mind, you will first have to make accounts with each of the bookmarking services identified on the OnlyWire.com page, then go into your account and enter your login/password info. All you have to do after that is add the URL for the blog posting, hit submit and you are good to go.
Pingoat is another social bookmarking site, which offers English and Non-English social bookmarking sites; 50 in total. Many of these services allow you to download a small icon for your toolbar that you just click on with the web page showing in your browser you wish to book mark.
So, why go to all this bother? As you have read in previous posting here, Link backs to your website or blog are what will make your page rankings skyrocket. The more external links coming into your site means that more people out there in the World Wide Web will see you too.
If you would like more information on social networking sites, check out Social Network Traffic Tactics and Advanced SEO Techniques.
Dr. Dave Hale
The Internet Marketing Professor
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Solid advice, thanks for sharing. I use both Ping-O-Matic and OnlyWire.
good information on sites & services to check
out. You give very good advice.
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