To Ping Again or Just Rely on Wordpress Services Ping List?

[LisaSchwartz]

Hello Warrior Folks-
I use mostly wordpress blogs for my niches (customers' niches). I've always been a bit concerned that I should be going to the site pingomatic.com and pingoat.com and doing a manual ping from there on new posts per blog. Of course that can be tedious for my Team to perform.

I've heard two different opinions on this forum and in the Wordpress blogosphere.

A. You should include a large list of ping sites in your Wordpress writing settings and set the blog to update those services. And that will be just fine.

B. In addition to #A, you should also go to pingomatic.com, pingoat.com and do a manual ping from their site on new blog sites.

So my questions are:

1. Should you do both? If so, why?
2. If you should do only #A or #B, what evidence can I gather (tool to track the pings are occurring) to validate the ping took place? As I don't currently see any comments in the comments section suggestion pings took place?

I hope I'm making sense. Since I'm still a new warrior member I don't have the ability to reply to thread comments just yet, just make initial posts. So I may be only in "read only" mode to your thoughtful replies.

Thanks and make it a great day,
Lisa

[jasonmorgan]

You shouldn't have to do any additional pinging when it comes to wordpress. It does all of the pinging for you.

I'll only manually ping a wordpress site or page when I've made changes to something other than posts and pages - sidebar and widget junk.

I do social bookmark sites and sometimes individual posts and pages if I'm feeling froggy.

I've never had any issues with a blog not being indexed and I've only relied on the default wordpress pinging. I can see the bots all showing up shortly after making my first post and within a week it'll show up on google.

When i doubt, I would rely on the opinions of bloggers when it comes to wordpress issues and not so much the people here - unless they also happen to blog.

[JustSerps77]

For me it's the same. I use the default ping list and all the new post are in the G index at least in two days....

[LisaSchwartz]

Originally Posted by jasonmorgan

When i doubt, I would rely on the opinions of bloggers when it comes to wordpress issues and not so much the people here - unless they also happen to blog.

thank you Jason. This was very helpful. Did you have a resource of where bloggers might be talking about this? Were you referring to wordpress.org?

Thanks,
Lisa

[LisaSchwartz]

Originally Posted by JustSerps77

For me it's the same. I use the default ping list and all the new post are in the G index at least in two days....

thank you JustSerps77. Perhaps the folks who think we should additionally manually ping at pingomatic are just more comprehensive? I guess I wonder why there is so much indecision. It sounds like the folks in this forum are suggesting that wordpress writing update services should provide sufficient pinging of the posts.

Cheers,
Lisa

[bigcat1967]

I've tried pingomatic and pingler - I didn't get any results. I've always left backlinks on web 2.0 props linking to the "un-indexed" page. Seems to work more that way.

[jasonmorgan]

actually, one of the better forums for wordpress is an adult forum. WP is huge in the adult IM world so you have more topics and discussions that are relevant to WP.

with warriorforum, you have a lot of different methods and business models at work so what works for somebody using a squeeze page might not work for a blogger.

I don't even understand why adsense, PPC and SEO are lumped into one forum here when you're talking apples and oranges. There really should be an SEO forum and a blogging forum.

I wiped out my bookmarks and only follow three forums nowadays, so I can't give any good suggestions. All I follow now is warrior forum, an seo forum and an adult forum. Between those three I get more than enough information, ideas and techniques to keep my happy.