Ping Your Blog Posts to Gain Traffic and Improve SEO: Kingping.com

Another pinging service and one which has a wide range of directories is the website kingping.com, you must register to use it but the registration process is extremely quick, once you are registered you can still submit as many blog URL’s as you like, so this doesn’t rule out people who have more than one. The idea of this is to keep blog directories and search engines informed of your latest blogging activity and to ensure traffic and a more appropriate search engine position.

The website is straight forward enough, the free version is simple but adequate but they do have a more professional service where they charge $1 for the first month and about $17 there after. The service they offer is that they automatically check your feeds several times throughout a day and then ping them.

I’m not sure if this is necessary or worth the money but if you have are a prolific blogger then it may be of use. Kingping ping 60 directories for you covering the UK, US, Germany, Japan, China, Australia, Spanish and French. Once you’ve submitted your site, that’s it – there’s no information whether the ping was successful or not, this leaves me a little curious but may ease others minds.

This seems a reasonable enough service and it’s worth the second it takes to register.

Ping Your Blog Posts to Gain Traffic and Improve SEO: Autopinger.com

Another useful website to ping your blog in order to gain traffic and readers is Autopinger.com, the website looks a little more scrappier with google ads and a sign up section but it’s essentially the same and just as useful as the two other services I have so far mentioned – Pingomatic.com and pingmyblog.com. Fill in your url and then send to all the checked blog directories (both English speaking and foreign) with one clock. The results page is a little awkward, personally I’m not fond of the circular loading action that takes place and the amount of inevitable red crosses and messages saying that your blog has not been successfully pinged looks a little bit worrying at the beginning. To be honest, this seems to vary each time and I’m not sure if it is a problem with their website, the url submitted or the fact that I may have already submitted the link through another pinging service without the website having been updated. Autopinger.com is my least favourite pinging service but mostly due to the website’s layout. I can’t say that it is any less effective, the amount of directories is not that large and by the time 50% of the pings come back negative, it might not be worth your time but considering it only takes a minute or so of effortless input, I tend to do it anyway.

Ping Your Blog Posts to Gain Traffic and Improve SEO - pingomatic.com

Pingomatic.com

The aptly named pingomatic.com is a good resource to use for pinging, pinging is a method used to inform blog directories that your blog has been updated, whilst many blog hosting services do this automatically, they often miss out various services and if you use your blog for commercial use and want to improve traffic then pinging is a useful little trick.

Pingomatic is a simple website, all you have to do is put the title of your website, the url and the feed url if you want. Check the boxes and your website is pinged to the list of 25 or so blog directories in seconds. A report comes back immediately and the website remembers which directories you sent your blog to and the name and url of your blog so that you will never have to fill it in again, that is unless you want to submit numerous blogs in which case you will have to change it unless you have enough separate type of internet browsers to remember different websites.

Even if you do have to fill it in yourself, it only takes a few seconds to do. A useful little website. This is the quickest of the services out there, I’d say.

Add a Digg button to your blogger blog posts and gain traffic

Digg and other social bookmarking networks are a trusty way of gaining traffic to your website, if the content is valuable or interesting, the chances of it getting digged and drawing readers is more likely.

To allow someone to "digg" your blog posts without too much effort, it helps to put a digg button next to your blog posts. Even for people without any technical skills - this is quite straight forward if you have blogger.

This works best in Mozilla Firefox, as the find facility doesn't seem to work on Google Chrome.

1/ Go to Layout

2/ Go to Edit HTML

3/ Click on the box entitled Expand widget templates

4/ Press CTRL + F to get up the search box

5/ Enter data:post.body/ in the search box

6/ Paste the code from this guys blog:

http://briancantin.blogspot.com/2007/12/add-digg-to-bloggercom-posts.html

7/ Preview it, if you want to change the size then edit the part which says 10px and if you want the button on the other side of the post change the Float:right; margin-left: to Float:left; margin-right:

8/Save it! Now every old post and future post will have a digg button alongside it.