Whenever you post a new entry to your blog I am pretty sure you tell all your friends. It is also important to tell blog search engines and news aggregators so that they too can check out all your new content. Telling them you have fresh content is called pinging them. (Note: my ping server list is now maintained on Wikipedia)
According to the definition on Feedster, “A ping server is a bit of software infrastructure, a server program to be specific, which lets a feed tell us ‘I’ve just updated; please index me now.’ What it receives is a small tidbit of information from a blogging or publishing tool which is called a ‘ping’. Hence the name.”
The simple solution is to make sure you visit Ping-o-Matic every time you publish a new blog entry. I have already published a comprehensive list of available ping servers and I will discuss other solutions in future articles.
Depending on which blog service or which blog software you use, there are simple ways to automate the act of pinging all of the ping servers.
I plan to delve much more deeply into this very very soon.
(Note: my ping server list is now maintained on Wikipedia)
