SEO – Using Pings To Improve Your Blog Search Engine Rankings
If you have a blog then you should definitely search engine optimize it by adding pings. If you are familiar with the way search engines rank web pages then you probably know by now that the more links that are indexed on your blog entry the higher your page rankings will be in the search engine ranking. This is especially true if the links that are indexed relate directly to the subject of your blog. This is valuable to remember and employ as an SEO (search engine optimization) strategy.
So what exactly is a ping? Each time you update your blog your site can be automatically updated with links to related material by an RSS feed. This process is facilitated through search engine spiders, blogging trackers and tagging programs that deliberately seek out updated blog material and try to link to it. Once they find your fresh content, your indexed links are fattened by the addition of links to similar information on the net. When the search engine spiders crawl your pages, you are boosted by these pings which brings you more readers, more people clicking on your links and of course, more...