Having your blog posts spread across the Internet is the key to seeing an increase in your traffic and the awareness of your blog. Update services such as Technorati, Feedster and Xping for example, ping websites for the latest articles and publish them allowing many users to view your posts.

For example, Technorati has a manual pinging service, which allows you to type in the address of a website and queue the ping. Once the queue has reached your query, Technorati will ping the address you entered and collect your latest information - this is great for increasing traffic and increasing your blogs awareness.

Wordpress offers a service under ‘Options’ -> ‘Writing’ in your Wordpress Admin Dashboard, where it automatically pings services. This means that each time you publish a new blog post, Wordpress will keep places such as Technorati up to date with your latest information. For example, if you go to ‘Options’ -> ‘Writing’ and you enter in ‘http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping’ in the text box right at the bottom of the page, Wordpress will ping Technorati each time you publish an article!

Now, as I mentioned above, there are tons of services similar to Technorati out there, how would you ping them all and how would you find out about all of them? With trouble to say the least, and that’s why I have put together a decent list of ping places for you.

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