Ping your blogs, ping your status! Why? Letting others know you’ve updated or done something specific can bring you new traffic. A lot of ping services are available. Here’s a list of pinging services but let’s have a look at two: Ping-O-Matic and Ping.Fm.
Ping-O-Matic
Ping-O-Matic gets the detailed URL you want to ‘ping’ and will then tell all the services you ‘check’ that your blog is updated. Why does Ping-O-Matic do what they do for free? They like to play with data. (Shrug.) This is something a lot of people make sure to use when they first start a new blog to get people visiting it sooner which can help speed up the search engine indexing process.
Ping.Fm
Ping.Fm is a new service just out of beta. It pings your status to multiple places esepcially if you’re a prolific microblogger. It works great if you’re doing the micro blogging thing and are tired of stopping by MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Plurk and a bunch of other places to post the link to your new site or blog post, to wax lyrical about the cool new pair of shoes you got for half price or shout to the world about the massive ClickBank check that just arrived in the mail. Instead of visiting all those places, Ping.Fm tells them all for you after you post the update once.
These services are definitely beneficial because not only can you spread the word on something but you can also save time! Time is money in internet marketing so go ahead and start pinging and you just might make more of it!
Have a most outstanding day.
Sean RasmussenAussie Internet Marketing
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008 - 2010
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Great info! Ping-o-matic is a must for all blogs, as it appends to several services.
sean
Which one of the two would you recommend?
Pinging is pretty much all taken care of within Wordpress now Gee. Ping.fm is a good one to get updates out to the social media sites.
Hi Sean
Is it the Traffic Getting SEO Plugin that takes care of the pinging?
Hi Sean,
Yes, my pinging is pretty much done automatically. However, there is still the odd one that I need to ping manually, like Zimbio.
It’s dangerous once you have automated most of it to not forget the manual ones. I had to get used to the comments that come back on my page telling me that the site was pinged
Pinging blog posts is a must do. Since I have started pinging my posts I have noticed that Google in particular is indexed my new articles in record time.
Thanks Sean also for the tip regarding using Wordpress plug-ins (like MaxBlogPress) to not ping on every post update, to avoid getting banned.
I’ve never used Ping-o-matic but have an account on PingFM. Another site for manual pinging is FeedShark. Drupal has an optional ping module in its core modules.
Well maybe I am but don’t know it as Sean has mentioned it is pretty well taken care of in Wordpress. Would still be good to get practiced in the art thereof.
I’ve never even heard of pinging but another one I can add to my ‘How To Save Time List’.
To set up your pinglist (you will find many pinglists from doing a quick Google search) within a self-hosted Wordpress blog, go to settings>>writing and insert your pinglist into the “update services” area. You are not able to do this on UWC Blogs by the way, but they do get pinged
‘Shrug’ – I shrugged – how stupid was that!
Yes I Ping and have been surprised that there isn’t a Pong to go with it! – but i suppose I don’t want my sites to pong!
I have a ping.fm account and it took me a little while to actually work out what it was doing and the benefits.
Anything automated is good and worth doing – even if you don’t quite understand it properly!