I ping *all* the majors plus Ping-O-Matic. I dont think of pinging… it just happens… see, I just pinged.

This works well, except for Technorati as of the last week. Technorati says I have not updated my blog. My RSS is fine…

Anyway… be a pinger!

This is important, because Google ordinarily puts new blogs into a “sandbox” and will not put them into its primary index until the site has been around for six months to a year. This blog gets almost nothing from Google at this point. I expect that to change eventually, but I don’t want to rely too much on any one source of readership.

I think you need to keep good stats and look at where your traffic is coming from before you can decide which services are doing you the most good.

That may depend on whether you are creating or updating your post through the editor in WordPress, or through a third-party blog post editor. I’ve been using Zoundry blog post editor, which helpfully applies the keywords that I want to use, but I think it’s less reliable when it comes to pinging sites such as Technorati.

I feel more comfortable using Pingoat to ping everything once all the updates are in. Other people might prefer to go to the websites that they are most concerned about, to issue the pings individually.

The main thing I wanted to emphasize is that every blogger has to know which sites need to be pinged, and has to make sure that this happens each time a new or updated blog post is published.

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I read somewhere, at least for WordPress, the more RPC sites you ping the longer it takes to complete a new post, and some services actually timeout and can never actually post successfully. Not sure how true that is, because I only post to pingomatic.