Blog and Ping--get your blog and RSS feed indexed!

Blogging can be a great way of attracting search engines to index your site. This can be done by linking to your website from your blog. However, many blogs aren't even indexed by the search engines, let alone utilizing them to get your sites spidered.

A technique becoming increasingly popular is called blog and ping. Blog means, well, blogging, as normal. Ping means to let the search engines know that you've made a new post and that they should check it out to be updated.

Why do they want to know if there's a new post? Yahoo, for example, needs to know in order to keep the My Yahoo page updated with fresh posts.

1) To get Yahoo to include your RSS feed, first submit it by clicking 'Submit your site' at the bottom of search.yahoo.com. After you get there, click 'submit your media content for free.' Complete the process.

2) Then go to My Yahoo, click 'add content,' and then click 'Add RSS by url' (beside the search box). Enter your feed address and click add.

3) Then, if it's a blog, after you have made a post, or if it's some thing else, after you've refreshed the RSS feed, ping Yahoo. Here's how:

Just enter this address into you browser, changing the last part to your feed's address.
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://anglebracket.blogspot.com

This is the basic process of blogging and pinging.
This procedure can help you get indexed in Yahoo, and in turn, get you indexed in the other big SE's.