Continuing on the theme of useful tools to have on your website, today’s topic is pinging.
“Pinging” your site to ping directories is in effect sending an electronic message asking them to pay attention to your site, and to visit you to check out your new content.
The good news is, it can be done automatically within WordPress. Once you publish a new post or page, your Ping plugin will ping all the sites in your “ping list” or list of sites to which you want to send a ping.
Then, at some stage, maybe very quickly, maybe later the same day (this depends on the ping service, not you) their robots are sent to visit your homepage to see what’s new. Effectively you’re putting up a flag saying “New Content Here”. So pinging enables you to tell a list of other websites that you have new content and that they should come over and see it. On a good day, if you’re lucky & a pinged site visits your blog, it could appear in the search engines in just a few hours!
Search engines & directories want to be able to hear about new content as soon as it’s published, and by pinging them they are able to do that. So it helps them to do what they want – get new content for searchers, and quick – and helps us do what we want – get our new content onto the search engines quickly.
So, pinging announces to various important websites that we now have an update on our own website and we want them to come and visit it. And by sending this little message, we’ll hopefully increase our search engine exposure.
So: add the CB Ping Optimizer plugin to your WordPress website & get more attention than ever!
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Hi Sunish,
thanks for your comments (and compliments
– I’m glad you’ve found the videos useful.
Regarding pinging : unless the various plugins communicate with one another, I suspect that you will be duplicating the pinging, which is not good practice. In this instance, use Yoast’s plugin, but not the ping optimizer. It would be useful to investigate which sites Yoast pings, and which ones Google feedburner pings, and again if there is a lot of duplication then switch off one of them.
Regarding pinging on updates: the point of the ping optimizers is to not ping too often (which can be seen as spammy) – so if you have a major update on a page (presuming you wouldn’t do a major update to a published post) then you could do a “forced ping” – in CBNet there is such an option to do it manually.
Hope that helps!
kind regards,
Tracey
Thank you!
Hi Tracy,
Here I am after watching your YouTube video on “Using the WordPress “Insert More” Tag”. This video simply clarified my doubt. I had no idea what tab was about and going around and watching several videos. Anyways, you made it very clear and simple.
Now about Ping. I use Google feedburner and it has a ping option. Also I use Yoast WordPress SEO plugin and it has an option to ping. My question is, using severl ping options from all these going to affect my sites credibility? Are the search engine going to think that I am trying to spam them by pinging from different direction?
My second question is, when I do a serious editing to my already published content, are these pings going to inform the search engines that, “hey this dude just edited and updated his content”. Does that happen?
Thanks again for the video and you have a beautiful voice too.
Hi Tracey;
I thought WP pinged automatically whenever you publish or update a blog post; so the problem is you could be thought a ping spammer if you update posts too often.
Therefore you need a ‘ping optimizer’ plugin to restrict the number of excessive pings.
Hi Roy,
You’re right – see my old post on this at http://thesimpleblogcompany.com/2010/06/review-new-plugin-for-pinging/ – WP pings for additions AND updates, whereas ideally you just want a “ping” to happen for new content.
cheers
Tracey
Hi Tracey..I just tried to do it, and went to the help section of WP. They state that the dot COM version will not accept any plug ins (that are not on their widgets already)..only WP dot ORG will accept. Oh well…
Hi Stuart, yes sadly WordPress.COM does have a lot of restrictions, which means that quite a few of the tools I blog about won’t be useable for you. It would be worthwhile considering moving your blog to self-hosted WordPress at some point, as you can do a huge amount more with SEO, and other performance-enhancing plugins
If you intend your blog to be any sort of business-generator for you, it’s almost essential to make that move!!
Wow! Tracey, I’m going to be learning so much from you – this is great. I’ve just signed up for your 7 top SEO tips. Looking forward to reading lots more – I’ll be back.
Heather x
Hi Heather, and welcome to my list – I hope you find the report useful – please do give me feedback on it!
Tracey x
Hi Tracey, it’s a good thing for wordpress users that their posts can be pinged automatically. Not sure if people like me that have a blogger blog have a similar functionality.
Hi Kifayat, it’s definitely worth googling to see if Blogger has an equivalent tool/plugin – it can really help your visibility.
Good luck!