"Claim your blog": How/What/Why?

If you are a serious blogger or if you have interest in blogging (& over the last few days were breaking your head on this) or perhaps were searching franatically over the net & stumbled up on this phrase "claim your blog"...voila! You have come to the right place for its clarification. See, in simple layman terms, what this means is:
Each time you do a post on your blog (let us call it the parent blog) that is external to the site which has claimed your blog, that post will automatically appear (in full or partial based on what you set) as a post (let us call this post as a child blog) on the other blog site as well. Cool ain't it? So, each time you add posts to the parent blogs, those get reflected in the child as well (unless of course the child blog driving site decided otherwise).
You might be thinking that it sounds ok, what what is so great about it? Well, you are absolutely right in thinking so! Let us look at that aspect as well.

Why would you want to do this?

• Generally the blog claiming site would put (e.g. at the top of each post) a link to the originating blog post. Hmnnn....additional links pointing to your site/blogs. Neat! :)
• You get more readership of your blog content.
• All these basically leads to more traffic to your external blog.

Does this sound interesting now?
If you are truely interested about blogging & want to reach out to the millions of net audience, you do need to use the services offered by companies like Technorati. People find your blogs easily when they search by technorati tags. Technorati will rank your blog based on the number of links from other websites.The higher your rank the easier your blog is to find when people search for things.

Some other sites, where you may claim your blogs are:
Mintiblog.com
Feedster.com
Blogexplosion.com