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One of the most overlooked means of getting promotional leverage in blogging is the act of pinging your latest blog post. Pinging is one of those geek terms that you come across in an article and brush it off a more techno-speak. Unfortunately for you this is a very important point in your blog strategy so pay close attention.

In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism. This is an action that occurs when a blog tells a server that its content just got updated. An XML-RPC signal goes out to one or a few "ping servers". This signal generates a list of blogs that have updated content on them.

There are different kinds of ping servers depending on the blog system you're using. There are open ping servers and proprietary ping servers. Some open ping servers, like VeriSign's, let other web-services subscribe to a list of blogs that just recently pinged them. Newly updated blogs then are picked up by blog search engines after they send out their signal. Subscribers also get the message when their favorite blogs are updated.

Proprietary ping servers get and distribute information only for their own applications. Most of the major blog search engines operate proprietary ping servers. That's because they want to serve their customers efficiently. There is no incentive to share their ping data with other servers.

If you are on a proprietary ping server, you'll have to ping a number of individual servers to get the kid of publicity you want. So what you'll need to do is get a hold of one of the online ping services, which pings multiple proprietary ping servers.

Ping services - tell search engines that your blog has new publications. After ping, search engine robots quickly crawl your new articles to index them. Each blog application will allow you to add ping services to it for manual ping operation.

Manual Ping

The manual method of pinging Google is to simply go to http://blogsearch.google.com/ping and enter your blogs URL every time your blog is updated.

Automatic Ping

If you want Wordpress to automatically ping Google every time you update your blog, then you will need to add http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to your Update Services box in your Wordpress admin area. Each blog application will be a little different but they will give you an option for manual and automatic pinging.

Get pinging after each post for maximum exposure. You will need to check to ensure that you are reaching everyone on the web. Go to Technorati to register your blogs and track your popularity. You can't afford to overlook ping process, no matter how geeky it sounds.

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Often most people around us don't understand why there is such huge fuss about this thing called Blogs. In fact most of who have even heard of blogs don't realize its full potential. Blogs are great money making machines and even you can make a lot of money by blogging. Don't believe me? Well you'll believe what I am going to tell you here below.

A blog is just like a website but with a few limitations. There is a limit on the size of the material you can upload, there are fewer fancy things that you can do to your blog etc. But all this is simply immaterial. A blog is basically something where you can showcase your talent, discuss an issue with people or just express yourself.

You must have seen advertisements on various websites and also on the various sites like MSN, yahoo and just about every popular site. But why? I know it might sound foolish to a few when I ask why, but it is very important to understand why somebody chose to promote his or her product through a website. It is not just because they want to promote their product but also because the website through which they are promoting their product has a huge visitor base and a good name amongst netizens.

All these websites are no longer sticking to the pay per click advertising model but have adopted a fixed fee model. So if you are popular in your community, professional or social circle, even you can start blogging and make money through advertising.

But don't start dreaming of a million dollar mansion right now. There's much more left to do. A blog is popular only as long as you keep it alive and abuzz with activity. You need to keep updating the content every now and then, answer the questions that people put forward, participate in debates and/or start new ones. You must be able to deliver some value to the reader who takes time to visit your blog and make sure that they return back to keep your blog making money for you.

Most of the advertisers will be reluctant initially because they want to be sure if you really have a loyal visitor base. But over a period of time if you can manage to keep your visitor base strong and loyal, you'll win over the confidence of the advertisers and then you can directly get in touch with them and ask them to advertise on your site for a weekly or a monthly fee. But it does not mean that you cannot make money in the meantime.

While your blog is still in the nascent stage you can get in touch with Google AdSense and ask them place ads on your blog. These ads will bring income on pay per click (ppc) basis. So whenever somebody will click on the advertisement on your blog Google will get some money for it. In turn because the revenue has come through your blog and efforts Google will pay you a part of it.

One thing that you must always take care of while blogging is that you must know your subject well because just one wrong or misinformed comment can often be all that it'll take to shoo away all your readers and followers. Also make sure that your readers can always freely ask you questions about the subject that you are blogging about. And when you are trying to find advertisers for your blog the best ones would be those who will derive some value out of it. So if you are talking about some topic related to pest prevention at home, a pest control company would most easily pay you for advertisement.

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