Post Often And Ping
Blog and ping used to be a wildly effective tactic for link building. Now that it isn’t the novelty method, is it still effective? I can say emphatically that it is still very effective. Making sure that your blog is set to ping is one of the most effective methods you can use to get links.
When you publish a post on a blog, the blog platform - such as WordPress - notifies blog search engines that there is new content on the blog. The blog search engines will then go to the blog and index the new content. When they publish the content, they will link to it. Other webmasters are able to easily find the new content at the blog search engine, and some of them will also link to it.
If your blog isn’t set to ping, you’re definitely losing links that would be nearly automatic if you changed your settings. I would recommend setting your blog to ping the following services:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2/
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
Each of them notifies other sites and search engines that there is new content, and by using each all your bases should be covered. 