Build One Way Links by Pinging
What is pinging?
Pinging is a way of letting search engines know that you’ve created a new post, or updated an existing post on your blog. A ‘ping’ is a message sent to a ‘ping server’ notifying it that the blog has been updated with new content.
What is a ping server?
A ping server is a web-based service that accepts messages in the XML-RPC format. It uses the information in these XML-RPC messages to publish a list of blogs which have updated content. Some of these ping servers run their own blog search engines, and some propagate the information to a number of other ping servers and search engines.
How does pinging work?
Many blog publishing platforms, such as Wordpress, have a built-in pinging tool. In the case of Wordpress, pinging is turned on by default and pings go out to one ping server which updates several search engines.
You can also notify a ping server that you have updated content manually by going to their website and submitting your blog’s name and URL.
One popular ping server is PingOMatic, found at http://pingomatic.com/. When your blog pings PingOMatic it then notifies a number of search engines that your blog has been updated. Many of these search engines also have their own ping server as well.
These search engines can then update their listings with new content almost instantly. This of course will give you one-way backlinks to your blog from these search engines, many of which have a high Google PageRank.
4 things you should know about pinging
1. Only ping when you have updated content. Otherwise, your site might be blacklisted as a spam blog, also known as a splog.
2. If you tend to post to your blog and then re-write the post frequently you might want to make sure you only ping when you actually post new content, not on updates. If you are using Wordpress there are a few plugins that make sure that pings are only sent when a post is created.
3. It’s a good idea to ping several ping services, especially the ones that notify several search engines. Don’t overdo it though. Make sure that if you are pinging a niche search engine that your blog falls into the relevant niche.
4. Make sure that if a search engine is notified by a ping server you are already using that you don’t add that search engines own ping service to your list of servers to ping. Because blog spammers have abused ping servers if you are pinging a search engine multiple times your site might end up being blacklisted, and not appear in the search engines at all.
Popular ping servers
Finally, here’s a list of popular ping servers you might try to get you started.
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
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Comments
@Home Office Organization - Sherri: It’s interesting to know that Technorati has boosted your traffic. I thought I had added Yahoo to the list, as well as Google. But after reading your comment I had a second look and realized that somehow part of my post got cut off and only one of the yahoo ping servers was showing. Lots of other services I listed were missing too. I’ve fixed it now.
I only added the Google Blogsearch ping server recently and noticed a boost of traffic from them.
Very informative post. thanks for all the links.
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Thanks for the ping site list. I’ve been using ping-o-matic and have had great results.
Also appreciated the pinging tips. I’ve been following most of these already without realizing it. Its just common courtesy.
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Thanks for your post. Pinging websites are very helpful especially when you are just starting out. Thanks for the list!
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Great post. I use pinging quite often, but didn’t know there were so many places to do it from. Thanks for the list, it’s a great resource and I’ve bookmarked it.
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Thanks for the extra ping URLs. I had some but not all you suggest.
I started getting more traffic when I added the technorati pinging service to my list.
I hope adding Yahoo will also help. Google is the biggest search engine, but about 50% of the world uses something else, and in the number 2 position is Yahoo. It might help a lot to have both number 1 and number 2 listed.