Building A Great Blog Ping List
If you have a personal or business blog website, it is necessary to ping after you post a new article. Pinging a blog will notify 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 or crawler to read your new post within seconds or minutes depending on their traffic load.
What is a blog ping?
By definition, a blog ping is a notification to a search provider that a blog has been created or updated. The ping is typically an XML message that contains the url address and RSS feed of the blog. Most blog tracking and news sites publish separate internet addresses for accepting pings, so building and testing your ping list is very important.
Good Vs. Bad
The Good: Pinging a blog is often good, because the more you ping, the more exposure you’ll receive for your blog post. As a result, many of the ping service providers will save your urls and feeds listed on their service and republished them.
The Bad: The more you ping your blog, the slower your server will become. If your blog ping list is more than fifty providers, your server load can become very high. Another downside is that most of the providers ping the same bots. This isn’t good for your site because you can potentially ping Google too many times and it looks like your a spammer. So a good blog ping list is important to your blog.
Wordpress Blog Pinging
By default, the WordPress engine pings one service automatically called Ping-o-matic. Ping-o-matic isn’t a great service by itself because it is simply outdated.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 correctly. Wordpress also pings every time you update, save or revise a post, which isn’t good because you could potentially look like a spammer and get blacklisted. We won’t get into this right now, but there is an available plug-in that will fix this problem.
How To Build Your Ping List
Here are a few things you need to take note during the preparation of your ping list. Remember that a ping list doesn’t last forever, you should check and update your list as often as possible.
1. Start with a base ping list. Our recommended providers are listed below.
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
2. Finding new ping providers.
You should add to your base list by doing some research based on your market niche, language, and country. You can also email other established blog websites within your niche and ask them for any recommendations. You should be able to find some more ping service providers to add to the base list.
3. Remove any unneeded or non-working services.
This step is very important. You should begin by checking each provider by visiting their website. Pay attention to the service and location they provide. If you have found that the website is no longer in service then remove it from your list.
We recommend that you pay attention to your list and regularly and check the providers websites to make sure they’re working. Proper maintenance of your ping list will keep your content spidered and increase your blog’s visibility in the search engines.
