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You want more blog traffic? Have you ever heard of pinging? If not, you can keep reading this post, because pinging can surely increase blog traffic to your site. Pinging is an act of sending a series of packets from one computer over a network or the Internet to a specific computer in order to generate a response from that computer. The other computer responds with an acknowledgment that it received the packets. Ping was created to verify whether a specific computer on a network or the Internet exists, and is connected.

Pinging and Blog Traffic

Certain Web sites want to know when you post something new to your blog so they can promote it to the world. By pinging these Web sites you can get the word out easily. This allows you to build blog traffic. Most blogging software will ping to at least one of these Web sites automatically. However, you can easily promote your new post to dozens more. The good thing about this, you don't have to visit their site each time you want to promote your blog.

There are a number of services designed specifically for tracking and connecting blogs. By sending a small ping to each service you let them know you've updated your blog so they can come check you out.

One way to maximize your pinging is by using a service called Ping-o-Matic. By pinging the Ping-o-Matic service you automatically send update notifications out to as many as 22 sites. Be careful not to ping too often though; many ping services will block you if your pings become over zealous.

Another Good Thing About Pingging

Since pinging alerts the major blog tracking sites it then helps search engines crawl and reindex your new content much quicker. This also helps your search engine positioning which is even better for your business. You should ping your blog every time you write new content and update your blog. This way others know immediately that your blog has been updated.

Further to my previous post on hiring someone else to write article for you, I would like to share more about article writing if you refuse to do it yourself. What can you do if you don't want to pay for an article, and yet want to keep up the posting frequency in your blog? Another solution is to ask your readers to write for you. OF course, it is only applicable to those big blogs with at least 100 RSS readers.

Have you ever considered that your readership can provide you a good source of articles? Since most likely your readers also know the topic of blog well (otherwise they would not subscribe your feed, and stay the top of your blog new posts), they can easily write a related post for you. However, the main problem of this method is quality, and most of the time, the articles are merely copied from other sites which make it no longer unique. Make sure that you need to obtain the ownership of the article, after receiving it from the readers.

Although you maybe very familiar with the topic of the blog you are writing, you may not have the idea to write a post every time, especially if you post everyday in your blog. It comes to a dilemma, it is good to have post everyday, but you do not know what to write for the coming days. Even do how much I try; my mind just never feed me with some thoughts to write about. But this is not the only reason why we can’t provide new entries to our blogs at times. I mean, let's be honest. We all are not free for our blogs all the time. But how do successful bloggers find solutions in similar situation like this?

Let the expert make new entries to your blog. What, are you kidding? No, I'm serious and yes, successful bloggers do invite other bloggers to post entries to their blogs. This will not mean they are out of topics to discuss with. They simply understand that they are not an expert to all the subjects their readers wanted to read about, of which their blog should provide. So, they invite others to post to their blogs.

Some bloggers hire people to make entries to their blog while others form some alliance with other bloggers to setup for cross-posting.

Hiring professional writers to make some entries to your blog means you have to pay certain amount of money. So, you have to weigh the expenses for hiring against the value these writers will add into your blog in terms of keeping the traffic coming and the returns that will be made from those traffic. The other thing you need to keep in mind is that most writers for hire are not experts on the subject you wanted them to write about. Only they do extensive research to make them sound an expert.

The good thing about hiring writers for your blog is that you will earn all the credits from your readers of providing the information they wanted as they may not know that you're paying somebody to make entries for you. They see you as a total expert.

Making alliance to other bloggers and inviting the same for cross-posting is another good way of keeping the traffic coming and in increasing blog traffic as well. The good thing about this is that invited bloggers are mostly experts on the subject you wanted them to talk about and they will do this all for free to gain more exposure, build and spread their credibility and to win more readers from other's blog. You will enjoy the same opportunity by also cross-posting to their blogs.

Whether you hire writers to write something about for your blog or you form alliance with other bloggers by cross-posting, the bottom line is, you need to satisfy your readers by give them the information they wanted. I am planning to have one too, if you are interested, please let me know by any means.