Pimp your blog posts!
Have you ever wondered how the heck people get their blog posts read from all over the web. Let’s face it, it takes hard work (and some good writing skills) to build up your subscriber list or a audience of readers who love your content.
In most cases, we rely on various social bookmarking sources (which we manually have to subscribe to) like del.icio.us, digg, Furl and others including MyBlogLog, Amatomu, Afrigator, or similar, to publicize our posts. We also usually ask our friends to digg our posts or rely on “link love” from other blogs and sites to get visitors to subscribe to the blog feed.
Well, it is amazing what you can learn while browsing other blogs. Let’s take this handy tip by TimeForBlogging for example. Josh, from TimeForBlogging, just made it much easier for me too ping my posts to quite a list of ping services.
In his post he shares that you can “spread the word about your latest blog entry as easy as pinging a few update services. Most blog systems allow you to add different update services (ping sites) to notify.”
I use WordPress as a blogging platform and have done what Josh suggested doing by adding the list of ping sites to my update services.
How to notify new ping sites of your updated blog posts in WordPress:
- Login to your Control Panel/Admin Section
- Click on the Options tab, followed by the Writing tab.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and add whatever services you’d like to the Update Services box.
I am not going to steal Josh’s thunder, so head on over to his post to get the full list of ping sites.
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- May 3rd, 2007
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Thanks for the mention, and I appreciate you not “stealing my thunder”
I had never seen Afrigator or Amatomu before. Very cool sites . . . too bad I’m not there in Africa. Looks like they’d be useful resources!
No problem Josh, anytime. You made a very good post. Glad you like those two sites, you should come and visit Africa sometime