In a recent DP post, I read that you should "ping" articles such as ezines in order to get the indexed faster - and also presumably in order to get them backlinks. How do you ping an article and where do you ping it to??? Would be grateful for any pointers - pinging is a term I keep hearing but I've never used it for seo.
I can second Pingler. Seems to get my profiles/articles indexed pretty much instantly. If you're using the big article directories though I doubt this is an issue.
Many thanks for your help. Shall check this out. Does pinging help build links to your article or is it only useful for getting it indexed?? IE is it any good for building links to articles that are already indexed????? Is this also good for Squidoo lenses?
Hello friend, There is a big number of websites which offer ping service such as www.pingler.com or www.pingomatic.com. So you can use these.
Don't forget that if you ping the same way the same time the same everything... it will show a footprint and you want to avoid a footprint. Search engines are looking for footprints and you don't want to go trough the whole thing and it be a waste
Pinging is to let the search engine know that there is a new information on the web. Pingler is the one you need to use for this purpose.
I usually use ping.fm its good way to ping into your blogs or feedburner if you want to ping the feeds of your blog!