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In fact, if you have been using WordPress for a long time then by now your blog probably has been banned from ping services and you don't even know it. Read below to learn how some major flaws in WordPress's pinging system can get your blog banned and make it lose precious traffic. Answer these questions: Why are blogs more powerful than ordinary websites? Why do search engine easily index blogs while other websites struggle to get indexed? Why do blogs attract more traffic than ordinary websites? The answer is the blog's ability to PING. Its not just a geeky term. Its a lot more powerful tool and process than you have imagined.

The social bookmarking sites will pick up and index your blog post even if you don't link back to them. The crucial element of a tag in your blog post is the rel="tag" code placed directly after the URL. The social bookmarking sites are looking for this snippet of code when crawling your blog posts.

Update Services are tools you can use to let other people know you've updated your blog

Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated. We regularly check downstream services to make sure that they're legit and still work. So while it may appear like we have fewer services, they're the most important ones.