Every time you post a new story to your blog you should have a ritual of actions you take to ‘guerrilla market’ your blog.  Without letting the world know you exist, it is nearly impossible to grow your reading population.

Your post-blog ritual may include, Twitter, Digg, Propeller, & StumbleUpon.  You should also be automatically updating these feed “pings”.  How do they work?  Essentially, your blog software (let’s assume Wordpress for this posting) automtically send a XML link to your new post to the URL addresses you include in your ping list.

From your Wordpress admin panel, click on the settings on the bottom left, the click on the “Writing” tab.  Scroll down on the page and you’ll see a box called “Update Services.”  Wordpress by default pings pingomatic. Pingomatic is a broadcast service that automatically then forwards your ping to a number of other ping sites.  We have included here a list of ping services that are not notified by pingomatic.

Select from the list below the services that match the content of your blog or just shamelessly add them all to your “Update Services” box! (Cut and paste the URLS, not the comments in parentheses)

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping     (Technorati is included in Pingomatic, but they recommend you ping them directly – you should also “claim” your blog on technorati.com)

http://rpc.twingly.com/

http://wasalive.com/ping/

http://www.blogsdominicanos.com/ping/ (Spanish Blog Tracker)
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php (The Fantasy blog stockmarket)

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