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Here's my great blogging tip of the day. It seems to me that pinging weblogs.com fails more often than not, which means people won't find my new blog posts as easily. I recently learned about a better site to ping.Here's...

Tom Keating http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/ Here's my great blogging tip of the day. It seems to me that pinging weblogs.com fails more often than not, which means people won't find my new blog posts as easily. I recently learned about a better site to ping.

Here's a link to a suggested "ping aggregator". It pings several of the top blog ping sites.
Ping-o-Matic! » MetaPinging
(exact link: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/)

Some other important blog tips to live by...

Top 10 11 Blog Tips
1) Be opinionated.
2) More is less - don't be wordy
3) Link like crazy. If you link to others, they'll link back to you
4) Make your headlines catchy
5) Be witty/funny
6) Write lists (top 10 lists, Best of lists)
7) Write with passion
8) Use a consistent style
9) Use tons of keywords within your blog posts
10) Use graphics, sounds, and videos
11) Monitor the blogosphere (techmeme, technorati, digg, etc.)

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