After writing a brilliant blog post, you breathe a sigh of relief thinking you have completed all the nessesary steps for proper blogging. Think again.

As awesome as WordPress is when it comes to writing blogs, it lacks a certain essential aspect to blogging and internet marketing. The ping and social bookmark.

What Is A Ping
Pinging your blog is essentially letting the search engines and blog directories that your new post has just been written.

What Is Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmark sites let you share your favorite bookmarks. Because social bookmarks are public, they get ranked in the search engine thus ranks your blog post. Here is a great video called ‘Social Bookmarking in Plain English‘.

How To Ping And Social Bookmark

After you write your blog post, head to a site called Pingates.com and enter your blog post details. This will submit your post to all the major sites that keep track of weblogs.

Next head to social bookmark sites such as digg, del.icio.us & reddit and submit your blog post details. You will need to have an account with all of these social bookmark sites, but once signed up – social bookmarking will be easy.

If you do this simple process every time you add a new blog post to your website, it will create an avalanche of traffic to your site thus increasing the opportunity to land new clients. Keep in mind that this info is merely scratching the surface on the subject of social bookmarking. To get up to speed on how to dominate the search engines, try one of our On Demand Video Tutorials.