Pinging your blog.
If you have a personal or business blog, it is necessary to ping after you post a new article. Pinging a blog will contact Google and other search bots that a new post has been added to your site. Once notified, the ping service providers will send a spider to read your new post within minutes depending on their tracking rate.
What is a blog ping?
The definition of a blog ping is a notification to a search provider that a website has been created. A ping is basically an XML message that contains the url address of the blog. Most blog news sites have separate internet urls for accepting pings, so building your ping list is very crucial.
The Good Versus The Bad.
The Good News: Pinging your blog is mostly good, because the more you ping, the more exposure you'll receive for your blog post. As a result, most of the ping service providers will remember your URLs pinged to their service and republished them.
The Bad News: The more you ping your website, the slower your server will become. If your blog ping list is more than fifty providers, your server load can get really high. Another downside is that most of the providers ping the same search bots. This can be bad for your site because you can unknowingly ping Google too many times and it looks like your spamming. Therefore a good blog ping list is important to your site.
Blog Pinging For Wordpress
As a default, the WordPress engine automatically pings a service called Ping-o-matic. Ping-o-matic isn't a great service because it is simply outdated. The reason is that it does not ping all of the newer services you need to syndicate your blog and get it spidered right. Wordpress also pings every time you update your site, revise a post, which isn't good because you could unknowingly look like a spammer and get banned.
Ways To Build Your Ping List.
Here are a few things you need to take note during the preparation of your ping list. Also remember that a ping list doesn't last forever, so you should maintain and check your list as often as possible.
Step 1: Start with a base ping list. I found a great recommended providers list located at this site.
Ping List For BlogsNote 2: Find new ping providers.
You should add to your base list by researching your market niche, language, and country online. You can also email other established sites within your niche and ask them for advice. If you search the right places you should be able to find more information on available ping service providers to add to the base list.
Step 3: How to remove any unneeded services from your list.
This is an important step. You should begin by checking each provider by visiting their website. Take note of the service and area they provide to. If a website is not available then simply remove it from your list.
It is recommended that you pay attention to your service list and regularly and check the providers web pages to make sure they're working. Regular maintenance of your provider list will keep your content spidered and increase your website's
visibility in the search engines.
