Ping ? As a small business owner or new blogger you may be asking why do I need to Ping my blog? What is a Ping ? How do I ping my blog ?

If you want people to visit your blog you will need to promote your blog and pinging your blog posts will notify major search engines that your blog has been recently updated.

If you have ever tried to reach someone on the phone at a major search engine you will understand the important need for a way to notify them automatically by pining your blog posts.

Wordpress is set up to help you with this process. Simply log onto Word Press, select settings, then writing and scroll down to Update Services.
Enter the ping Url and you are done.

Here’s a list to get you started: (copy paste the blog ping list below)
http://rpc.twingly.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/

There are also online services to ping your blog by visiting their website:
http://autopinger.com/
http://www.blogexplosion.com

Please feel free to post other blog pinning resources in the comments.