Blogs are fast becoming a rage with typically everyone from the normal individual to celebrities using blogs to reveal themselves to others through comments that are posted as entries in the blog website. Usually a website, blogs contain user perceived comments, videos, graphics, events etc. A typical blog contains a combination of text, images and links to other related blogs.
Pinging or broadcasting ones blogs to the search engines ensure that the blogs are regularly visited by others often increasing the traffic to the website in a short span of time.
A tool that lets the user to ping blogs simultaneously to more than 30 search engines is the Blog Blaster. Version 1.5. of this tool is automated and uses XML-RPC interface to ping the blogs on multiple search engines. When a blog is pinged, the search engine needs to understand that the contents of the blog have been refreshed and the same needs to be done by the search engine, i.e. update the listing on its end.
The user can also customize the list of sites that need to be pinged, add the sites that need to be pinged, view results and to verify ping success. Hundreds of blogs are created by importing blogs from text files.
Support is provided for the following search engines: Weblogs, Feed Burner, Pingomatic, Blog Rolling, BlogStreet, Feedster, Pubsub
Some of the features of this tool include: etc,
. Provision to ping simultaneously ping 30 or more search engines with one click access.
. Provision to customize the list of sites to ping with user included sites as well.
. Support provided for Windows Operating Systems 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista that enables the user to ping from the users own PC.
. Provision to Import blog URLs from text files to create a breeze.
. Results of the submission can be viewed which are displayed after all the pings have completed.
Some enhancements made to the newer version include:
. New blog submission sites added to the existing list of sites.
. Other minor enhancements are also added to the list.