Ping services will help you to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated. The bigger your ping list the higher the chances of receiving traffic from those sources, so check out the list below and include it on your blog. But if you are using Wordpress, you can modify the ping list on the Control Panel, then Options, then Writing.

Ping services will help your blog to increase visitors, when you are updating your blog, you ping the ping services then your site will be listed in the ping services site. It expose your weblog to the many others.

Here is a list of 5 sites that offer ping service for you to use. Simply submit your your site or feed to these ping services when you update or add new content/post.

1. Ping-O-Matic!
http://pingomatic.com
Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated.

2. PingMyBlog.com
http://pingmyblog.com
PingMyBlog.com is a service which does the hard work for you. This notify all the major blog directories in one go so that everyone knows about your latest blogs.

3. MyPageRank.net
http://www.mypagerank.net/service_pingservice_index
Free submit lets you submit your URL to 20 popular search engines from one MyPagerank.Net Google PageRank Checker - Check Google page rank
Webmasters, monitor your webpage pagerank

4. Pingler.com
http://www.pingler.com
Blog and Ping Tool - Use Pingler.com to Drive Traffic your Blogs and Websites
Use Pingler.com to Ping your Blogs and Websites in the best way possible!

5. Feed Ping
http://feedping.com
Free Website and Blog Multiple Submission Service - FEED PING Website and Blog Multiple Feed Service