Ping your blog, if you dont already

In today’s world blogging is very competitive. Roughly, out of the 100 blogs that are published only one contains actual content. Remaining only contain the same content or transformed into their own words. Very few do manage to add value to the original content.

This makes the promotion of your blog very challenging atleast till the time you get enough traffic to your site. This is where some of the pinging sites can be very useful. If you are able to bring traffic to your website that can fetch good revenue though advertisements.

Pinging sites notifies the servers that keep track of blogs that a new blog has been posted. There are many such pinging websites a list of those is mentioned below and all of them are free.

pingomatic

autopinger

pingoat

some of the blogging sites like wordpress provide a way to automatically ping everytime you publish a post. You just have to mention the address of the sites that you want to ping.

Pinging can be useful only after submitting your blog to those blog directories. Pinging would say success even though you website is not listed in that directory.

Blog Directories

After creating your blog the next step is to publicise your blog.

Bringing traffic to your site isnt going to be easy. For this one of the things that you need to consider is submitting your site to the blog directories. There are thousands of blog directories in the internet. These directories consists of many blogs where you can submit the URL of your website. In turn you receive some of the traffic that visit these directories. Even though there are many such directories here I present a list of directories where you can submit your site for free and which receive lots of traffic.

Blog Catalog

Globe of Blogs

Blog Universe

Blog Explosion

Super Blog Directory

The above listings are a glimpse inside the large and vast world of blog directories and the valuable inbound links that your can build for your blog and your business.

There are countless more directories at your disposal of which I have just specified some of my favorite.

Is there any good blog directory that you like to mention. Please comment.

Alternatives to Google Adsense

After learning about adsense the next question that comes to everyone's mind is, are there any programs similar to adsense. Ofcourse there are many such programs but none of them are as good as adsense.

Here I present the list of the most popular programs similar to Google Adsense

• Adbrite
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• Bidvertiser
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• Clicksor
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• Chitika
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• Yahoo Publisher Network

There are many more such websites which provide a decent alternative to adsense. But it has to be said that adsense is the best. The closest competetor to this is Adbrite. Their terms and conditions are not as strict as that of adsense and you get an account also much faster.

Its really surprising that Microsoft has yet not entered into this space of advertising even though its biggest competetor google makes the most money out of advertising.