Hello Everyone, I have heard about pinging blog, but i have a couple of questions.. What exactly is pinging a blog. Do you do it for your /blog, or do you do it for each individual post? These answers would really be great. Thanks in advance.
Pinging a blog is sending out your updated blog out to search engines, technorati and etc. It pretty much just lets the web know you updated you blog. And you ping your whole blog.
This site, pingler.com automates pinging to around 100 websites and services. Try it out to see the results.
Pinging your blog pretty much tells everywhere: my blog has new content, come and visit it. If you ping your blog after making a post the post can usually be indexed within 10 minutes or so
Okay, my blog resides at http://www.sismediagroup.com/blog So i would end up pinging http://www.sismediagroup.com/blog and not the individual post...Thanks everyone.
I prefer to get a quality backlink to new content on my sites. Pinging is a way to let search engines know about new content on your blog. Pingomatic is the most popular I belive.