If you’re marketing via blog, then you might want to know that Google has just launched its blog search engine. It’s still in beta, but it’s already available to the public at http://blogsearch.google.com, http://google.com/blogsearch and http://search.blogger.com (Blogger-style interface). You can also access the Google Blog Search via Blogger homepage or dashboard.

I first found this information from The Blog Herald’s review on the Google Blog Search. It then led me to Scoble’s review and thus to Chris Sherman’s article at SearchEngineWatch. In Chris’ article, I found out that just like many other blog and RSS search engines, the Google Blog Search crawls blogs and feeds’ content in real-time to serve up fresh search results.

What this means is that theoretically, you can get your blog post indexed fast by the Google Blog Search. The only thing that you need to do is to ping the popular pingservers everytime you update your blog. You may also want your blog to publish a feed because Google Blog Search will only include blogs that publish web feeds.

Now can this Google Blog Search become a new traffic source for blogs? Yes, I think so, at least after this new service has become popular. And since this one is founded by the famed giant, Google, I don’t think it would take long for this new service to become popular.

Tags: Blog: Blogs: Blogging: Weblogs: Blog Promotion: Blogging Services: RSS

In one of my previous posts, I told you about a ping service called King Ping that can be an alternative to Pingomatic. Now, there’s another ping service that’s far more then just an alternative to Ping-O-Matic or King Ping. It’s called Pingoat and IMHO, it’s the coolest ping service available in the blogosphere. I first found this awesome service via Willie Crawford’s blog post, “2 Places To Automatically Ping Your Blogs”.

So, what’s so cool about Pingoat?

Well, if (at the time I wrote this post) Ping-O-Matic and King Ping only cover 20 and 18 services respectively, Pingoat covers 49 services. Almost all the services that are covered by Pingomatic and King Ping are also covered by Pingoat. Besides that, Pingoat also supports XML-RPC ping, which means that you can add Pingoat XML-RPC url to your blog application and make your blog application automatically ping Pingoat every time you updated your blog. Of course, the later only applies to blog applications that support automatic pinging.

Tags: Pingoat: Ping: Blog and Ping: Pingomatic: Ping-O-Matic: King Ping: Blogging Services: Blog Promotion

If you’re a blogger, then you may have known and familiar with Ping-O-Matic.

It could be a little annoying when after updating your blog and wanting to ping that update, you find out that Pingomatic is down. Of course, you can wait until they’re up and running again, but sometimes it is still a little annoying, especially if the downtime takes more then one day.

Now, you don’t have to be worried about that anymore, because Frédérick Giasson has made this Ping-O-Matic alternative called King Ping. I first found his service via Thomas Pierce’s blog post, “Ping-O-Matic Alternative”.

Tags: King Ping: Pingomatic: Ping-O-Matic: Ping: Blog and Ping: Blog Promotion