26 Do you "Ping"? If you don't, you probably should...
June 23, 2007 /

In blog terms, a "ping" notifies servers that keep track of weblogs that you have recently updated your blog. There are many such services available, most notably Weblogs and Technorati. Your blogging platform may already ping one or two of these services automatically each time you post, but to ping a number of services each time would be time consuming and could slow down your publishing. Here are a few services which accept pings from weblogs:

And there are many more besides!

Pinging weblog servers is a good idea as it ensures fresh content from your blog is always available to them; this in turn can help generate more traffic to your blog. An easy way to ping several servers at once is to use a pinging service, such as Pingoat or Ping-o-Matic. You simply input the name, URL and RSS feed (optional) of your blog and these free services do all the hard work for you! You can even bookmark the page for an automatic ping each time you load it.

Much easier than visiting a dozen websites each time you update, or waiting for ages for your blog to publish and ping!

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26 Comments:

  1. Blogger should really add some sort of automatic pinging service like Wordpress offers. Having to manually ping every time I update is ridiculous.

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  2. yup.. im agree with Cole.. it's take too much time.

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  3. A lot of useful information in those links, thanks. I feel that it might even be too much for me to “digest” in just one week.

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  4. I ping every time I update with the flexibility of selecting the ones you want or check all it makes it quites simple. Many of the ping services offer the same options for pings. You don't want to ping the same content multiple time, this may get you banned from the services. I say do the work now and reap the benefits later ... It is worth it.

    Marie

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  5. To ping or not to ping, I think its a very underestimated option to a blog article. Ping is giving life to new articles and actually bring them to top in feed to blog portals. It is very important as well as giving every article keywords.

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  6. When you ping a blog it notifies that there is new content added, and allows the search engine spiders to crawl your page, and index it sooner in the search pages in google.

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  7. As Cole said, Blogger needs an automatic ping feature.

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  8. Blogger should really have a automatic pinging service when you update your blog.

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  9. how to use the Blog Auto Machine? anyone knows how to use it with the steps?

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  10. yes, i agree that blogger will add auto ping.it takes a lot of time pinging manually.

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  16. I am still finding ways how to put auto pinger code on blogger.

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  18. Yeah thanks, i know that i must ping, well many people do this when they need page rank on google and some other stuff.

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  19. Pinging your blog should be take as you must let the search engine spider about your update so that they can crawl your pages and index them it is easy to handle for search engine bots

    Thanks

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  21. As I've read on a WordPress tutorial , this blogging platform has an automatic pinging system, but I'm sure that Blogger will have one, soon enough...

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  22. Guess i need to ping my blog

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