One of the neat things about starting a blog on a new server with a new domain is to monitor how it initially gets picked up by both traditional and blog search engines. We had this exact opportunity with the launch of helpmeblog.com today.

I often remind BlogExplosion members to ping their blog posts and get indexed properly so we tried it here ourselves.

We logged in and used the BE “Ping My Blog” feature and wanted to see what happened…

Sure enough a couple of hours after pinging the new helpmeblog.com blog it showed up in Technorati

Looks like it points to the original blog template we used for testing today but the important lesson learned was YES pinging your blog to blog search engines works and can create better search engine listings for your blog.

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