Speaking of web feeds, how about spreading the word about your web feed? One of the best ways is to use a pinging service. I came across a new one tonight called Pingoat (hat tip to Mark Evans) and I quite like it – it’s so fast! What in the world is Pingoat?
Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog’s popularity.
The other cool thing about Pingoat is that it supports a huge list of pinging services – far larger than Pingomatic. Check it out!
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Are there any negatives to using a service like this? I run a non-commercial (so far) <a href="http://billiardsforum.blogspot.com/">Billiard Blog</a> and don’t want to be lumped in with the sploggers.