Though I don’t write blog to be followed, It will be happy for me to know that many people are following. So out of boredom (once again 
) googled for sometime to improve my blog hits and did the following steps.
1. Install All in one SEO plugin for wordpress. I am not sure what this does but just followed what the wordpress codex site had suggested.
2. In my wordpress Dashboard, Settings->Writing added the following url’s to the update services coloumn list.
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://blogping.unidatum.com/RPC2/
3. Went to Pingomatic site and selected the list of sites that should ping my blog site.
And it worked. My blog hits raised by a very nice number inspite of me posting nothing. If you have found your niche and already there are lot of followers I guess you can increase your ratings this way.
Posted by Vivek Shanmugam on December 30, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Good One! Hope this improves my Traffic!
Posted by suren on December 31, 2008 at 2:42 am
@vivek: yup, It should
Posted by Jithin K.Rajeev on April 30, 2009 at 7:19 am
Me too trying it out! Opened my own domain!