Creating a Blog | A Step-by-step Guide (Part 6)

Ping your blog once a month:

Ping your blog to get it published on blogging directories on the internet. Search engines will often check directories like these for your site listing and to see what content updates you have made. You should ping your blog once a month in order to let the directories know of your updates.

1. Go to the Ping-O-Matic website: http://pingomatic.com/
2. Under "Blog name" enter the title of your blog.
3. Enter your blog’s URL under “Blog Home Page”.
4. Enter your RSS URL, which is your blog URL followed by “/feeds/posts/full” (as before).
5. Next to “Services to Ping” click “Check Common” to check all services, and then click the button “Send Pings”.

And that’s it! Remember to go back to the ping-o-matic site and repeat this about once a month.