A couple great new blogging tools: King Ping and Talk Digger

New Ping Service - King Ping. King Ping was developed in response to a time when Ping-O-Matic wasn’t working and Frédérick Giasson really wanted to ping the search engines to submit his stuff.

As far as I can tell, it’s a great service. I received fewer submit errors using King Ping than I have with others, so that made life simple. As far as I can tell, there is no manual way to ping without going to the site, but perhaps we’ll see that in a future release.

Anyway, give it a shot.

Frédérick also created the new Talk Digger program, which is a great way to see who is talking about you and what you write. It looks at the major search engines to see the number of inbound links (and where from), trends, and other interesting stats. Better yet - you can get results via RSS. The interface could use some sprucing up, but the results are pretty good.

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