Pinging Services to Increase Traffic

One of the easy way to increase the visibility of (and therefore traffic to) your corporate blog is to "ping" weblog trackers. I listed below a list of some of these weblog trackers (such as weblogs.com, blogshares.com...).

The main way these sites learn that a weblog has been updated is for the weblog software to 'ping' the weblog trackers. Every time you publish, you will be telling those sites that you made an update. So, if a user subscribes to your RSS feed via an aggregator site, they will be notified that your blog was updated. The concept is very similar to the submission of a classic website to search engines and web directories, but specific to the blogging reader community.

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.bblog.com/ping.php
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.catapings.com/ping.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de

An easy "how to configuring Movable Type to do this is" is available at http://www.cruftbox.com/cruft/docs/pinging.html

The concept of Meta-Ping has also been invented. It works the same way Meta-Search sites work for search. A free service like Ping-O-Matic [http://pingomatic.com/about/] is a good way to execute multiple ping at once.