7.3. BLOG PINGING SERVICES

Whenever you create a new blog post (and assuming you want people to know it's there), you will want to notify the blog aggregator services—this is referred to as sending them a ping. This tells everyone to come check out your latest post.

Depending on the software you have, this may be done automatically. For instance, WordPress defaults to sending a ping to Ping-O-Matic with each post. If not, here are a couple of services that send to multiple aggregators:

http://www.pingoat.com/

http://pingomatic.com/

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