Looking for a Blog platform for a new Blog

[allwayslearning]

I need help picking out where to build a blog. I have a blog on blogger but going all over the Internet looking for places to ping it everytime I post a new article is too time consuming.
There are a lot of places to ping like pingomatic and so on but if I need to ping my blog everytime I post this takes to long.

Here is what I want ideally in the order of importance

Preferably this needs to be free
Automatic pinging every time I post
Easy to set up and use
No html required but I can paste it in if I need it.
An rss feed that is updated automatically

[bbrian017]

Well theres not too many places that are willing to take your blogs rss. They want you to go post your blogs at most but there are a few. Google offers some sort of free service for bloggers I'm not too sure if it will meet all your needs but surely some! I would also like to follow this post and see what kind of suggestions you get!

Thanks and great question

[waynelyp90]

If you are using Blogger and you want a free platform, I guess Blogger is the best.

In your Settings panel, it should have an option of pinging Weblogs.Inc every time you post something. Submit your sites to search engine and I don't think you will have the need to ping for your site any more.

[bbrian017]

waynelyp90 this pinging you're talking about. Is it the same type of pinging I do when I select ping Google for my link dirr?

Is it a cache to Google Search Engine almost?

[waynelyp90]

Yes, and if you update your blog frequently, search engines bots will be frequently coming back to your site to check for new contents.

Not to say I am a Blogger lover but Blogger is actually a great platform if you want to get spider crawls. Don't forget that it is under the big G umbrella.;)