This forum has provided a lot good tips to help my blog, http://ecocrumbs.com. I've heard a lot about pinging, I'm still new to this, what does this mean and how do I utilize it properly? I have a wordpress blog template.
Do you use feedburner? If not, you should. You can set the ping option and when you write a new post, the various subscriber services are 'pinged' to let them know there is something new