A ping (Packet Inter-Network [Internet] Groper) is a way of notifying major search engines that your blog has been updated. More places you ping, higher chances you receive traffic from those sources. It will drive some traffic back to your blog. It will also help your latest post get crawled and indexed faster by search engines as they will find your post faster. With Ping service, you can get your new blog posts indexed within hours!

Ping sites give the service on updating different search engines that your blog has new fresh content. This concept is similar to website url submission to most search engines with the different is on the newly updated content published at your blog for pinging, publishing your blog contents, and increasing your blog's popularity. Majority these ping sites do not require you to register with them and you can simply fill up your blog or site name, your url with an optional ‘feed/RSS’ before pressing the ping button.

Unlike Wordpress that provides ping list to ease their users, Blogspot does not allow users create a ping list on your blog. But it is ok to go to only few recommended ping service providers once you have a new post or have updated your post. Each ping services will forward your blog to plenty search engines and blog directories. If you don’t want duplication pings, just copy the list from each ping services to notepad and you can unmark which site/s you have already ping earlier (eg. technorati which is listed at all ping service provider. Pinging the same url few times on a same day to the same site might result the site think you are spamming!)

Good places where you can ping your blog and automatically pick by lots of major search engines:

ping-o-matic (Google PR=6/10). Ping your blog at ping-o-matic and you will see it get picked up quickly by 23 major search engines.

ping4free (Google PR=0/10). ping4free offers a blog ping service that pings well over 130 tested and functioning blog directories. You must register first, but registration is totally free. Previously the site was inactive (through Google search) but updated on 16-05-2009. Status OK when checked through www.who.is

technorati (Google PR=7/10). It is a reputable site where you can also claim your site. technorati also will automatically crawl your site if you register (registration is also free).

Pingoat (Google PR=3/10). Pingoat offer pinging to more than 40 servers within few seconds.

kping or King Ping (Google PR=4/10); is another good pinging service. The site requires a registration (It’s free) before you can start pinging with real time ping service. It provides 60 web services for you.

ipings (Google PR=3/10) is very easy to use and fast without registration. It forward your feeds to more than 30 web services.

Feedburner (Google PR=0/10). Feedburner is under Google, and if you are using it, you can notify Feedburner about your updated feed and your feed will be updated immediately.

1. MSN: http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.your_website.com/sitemap.xml

Then try BlogUpp (Google PR=5/10). It is free, no ads, no sign ups and More traffic! BlogUpp snapshots each blog and reads its RSS on a regular basis. For every 10 blogs shared in your widget, yours is shared in 9 others. The widget shows interactively the blog image and its latest post. The blog clicked in the widget opens a new window, not closing yours, and all this is completely free and with no effort whatsoever