| If you have an online business blog and you are | | | | whenever you add new information to your online |
| posting to it regularly, it will not take too long before | | | | business blog. It is simple to do and an easy way to |
| you become disheartened if no one comes by to read | | | | get extra exposure and traffic to view your online |
| what you have spent hours writing about. Don't be | | | | business opportunities. If you have a Wordpress blog |
| discouraged just yet there are steps you can take to | | | | then pinging is done automatically for you with every |
| improve the situation and we will talk about them here. | | | | new post. |
| The three steps are tagging, book-marking and pinging | | | | Pinging helps tremendously in getting your blog indexed |
| and they are pretty simple to follow. If you make it a | | | | by the search engines, as they will feed off the |
| habit to add them to your routine every time you | | | | information that these blog tracking sites provide. |
| make a post you will see a marked improvement in | | | | 3. Social Book-marking: |
| the amount of traffic your blog will start to generate. | | | | There are hundreds if not thousands of social |
| 1. Tagging: | | | | book-marking sites on the internet, sites such as; |
| Make it a habit to add tag words to every post you | | | | Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon and Reddit to name |
| make. These are just basic keyword terms that will | | | | just a few. |
| make it easier for readers to find your blog post on | | | | You would need to join the ones that you would like to |
| social book-marking websites. It also makes it easier | | | | send your posts to, and this is really a simple process. |
| for the search engines which will help in getting your | | | | Once you have joined some of these social |
| blog indexed and ranked. | | | | book-marking sites you will then be able to notify them |
| If you don't understand why tags are important, check | | | | whenever you post fresh content to your blog and |
| out some of the social book-marking sites and you will | | | | there is an easy method to do this. Most of the blog |
| see why they are necessary. | | | | platforms today will allow you to add a button widget |
| 2. Pinging: | | | | for the various social networking sites and you can |
| What happens when you ping your blog is that a signal | | | | then just click on that link and submit the notification |
| will go out from your blog to a blog tracking service | | | | that there is new content on your blog. |
| letting it know that you have added some new | | | | By following these three steps the chance of getting |
| content. The tracking service will then crawl your blog | | | | your posts seen on the internet and attracting targeted |
| looking for the new content and this will then be added | | | | traffic to your online business blog will become a reality, |
| to the blog tracking site. At the same time it will notify | | | | and the more traffic you generate the greater your |
| any subscribers that new content has been posted. | | | | likelihood of success. |
| It would be worthwhile to get into the habit of pinging | | | | |