I find the pinging services to be a little confusing. Some "ping services" will ping other ping services. Trying to figure out which ones are the best for notifying all the others is the question that I'm researching. Also, is there any reason that services should be pinged by hand? Background: Blogs are great for a number of reasons such as self-expression, easy way to build websites, easy way to keep notes, and a great way to network. I've also liked that I can do all of the above while also improving my search engine positions (remember the old joke of what does BLOG stand for? It means a Better Listing On Google). The better listing on google has something to do with the directory services related to blogs. Everytime you post, if you have your blog software set right, it automatically pings some blog directory services and builds a new link to that post. For instance, on blogger under basic listings, there's the setting (yes/no) that: If you select "Yes" we will include your blog in Google Blog Search and ping Weblogs.com. I'm not sure if additional pings on top of this basic setting are worth the efforts. Heres my questions. 1. Are additional ping efforts in addition to the basic setting in blogger (or Wordpress) worth the effort? 2. If additional submissions help, how do I compare pingomatic, pinggoat, pingler, and the other free pinging services? 3. Do repeated pings of a blog, whose content has not been updated, help? What about pings about posts that are not new? Does that refresh or build new links? 4. Do pings from forums help build the forums listing in the engines? 5. Would a ping from a regular website help build links to it? If so, would a ping of each page of the website help?
Pinging is important as it let other sites know (including technorati) that u have updated . So there is a chance for benefit from pinging
Hi, here are my answers to some of your questions, others may have different thoughts. 1. I disable the automatic ping. It only takes a second to ping and after each post, I will use pingoat to manually ping. This way I know there were no issues and the pings went out. 2. I would not do additional pings as that is duplicating the pings and can get you banned from the ping site as well as the aggregators. 3. Repeated pings for non-changing content is not advised for reasons mentioned in point 2. 4. Usually pings are for blog posts. I wouldn't ping forum posts. As it is, most forums are actively crawled, so a spider will find your link on a forum post rather quickly. 5. I can only speak from personal experience in that I have pinged non-blog pages occasionally, but personally, I prefer to only ping blog posts.