Is not pinging bad SEO practice?

[Tumbarumba]

Hello Warriors,

Pinging Blogs & Web Pages:

If a post in a blog or a new page in a static website is not pinged, does this mean search engines will not know about the new post/article or does it just mean it will take longer for spiders to crawl the content manually?

The reason for asking the question, are static html pages going to fair worse than blog posts regardless?

Cheers - Rod

[DogScout]

Takes them longer to find it depending on how often your settings have them visit. You can have them set to visit different items at different times. Such as pages once a week, CSS once a month, posts daily, etc.

Pinging should be a large list and lets other besides the search engines know there is new content on your blog. Pings can go to other blog monitoring services like Technorati and to other blogs in your niche. so it is more then just SEs you want to notify.

Another blogger may catch a ping and read your post, they may ask to re-post it if it is good enough on their blog (with links back to your blog). If it is a popular blog, you will see a spike in traffic.

If you have sufficiently interesting posts on your blog, you may be asked to guest post on a more popular blog! Once again with back links to your blog. (Be sure to offer/ask that blogger to guest post on yours, they will link to their post on your blog as well as your customers will go to his blog.)

*In fact you can request to guest post for technorati or the Huffington post. You have to request guest posting in a category they already have and they will read it before publishing it, so it has to be outstanding. If you can get a string of guest posts on one of those two, the traffic that should bring is a ton. They are not fond of affiliate links, but don't mind ads, even with naked links. (most of the blogs they link to have naked ad links). I don't think affiliate links is a deal killer though as long as you are transparent and already playing by the FTCs new rules.

If you can get 'in' with several bloggers in your niche, it can mean tons of free traffic depending on the popularity of their blog. One thing they will look at is how popular your blog is, but if your posts are interesting enough to their followers, popularity will be a secondary consideration for most.

Rule of thumb, ping everyone. Careful though, many lists contain the same site with different ping addresses. You want to cull the extra ones so as not to 'spam' other sites with pings. That can be the kiss of death. Just go through the biggest list you can find and cull those that start with the same .com and ones that have no relevance to your niche. (Some like Huffington Post and Technorati you ping no matter what niche you are in. they follow, rank and index most of them in one category or another and I have seen some make a new category for a really good writer's blog they didn't have a category it fit easily in.)

Make sense?

[DogScout]

Static pages can create a burst of traffic, but as they change rarely, yes, over time, new posts continue to bring in fresh traffic where as static pages are like old posts, they do bring in whatever traffic they are keyword optimized for if they can continue to rank high in SEs

Also, be sure to write static pages for people 1st. SEs 2nd

[Tumbarumba]

Yes makes a lot of sense thank you...

I am about to put up a photography online store selling about 200 Australian photos I have taken over the years.

Do you think having an infomation blog installed on this site, I have a lot to write about, much of the info unique as the photosgraphs are taken in remote areas, would be a better business solution than writing the same infomation but as static web pages.

I guess for one the blog is easier for site visitors to access and read and for RSS feed.

[DogScout]

Originally Posted by Tumbarumba

Yes makes a lot of sense thank you...

I am about to put up a photography online store selling about 200 Australian photos I have taken over the years.

Do you think having an infomation blog installed on this site, I have a lot to write about, much of the info unique as the photosgraphs are taken in remote areas, would be a better business solution than writing the same infomation but as static web pages.

I guess for one the blog is easier for site visitors to access and read and for RSS feed.

You can put a photo in each post with a small 'Petermen' type of description to hold their interest longer then 7 seconds. Post each photo post in an appropriate category. Adsense and affiliate the hell out of the site, Amazon & Ebay keyword widgets etc. Even Clickbank craft links. (though the return on those tends to be small, so don't over do it.

Better yet write your own product on your equipment and sell it as a tips & tricks report. (a smaller version to 'capture email contacts). If you are ambitious, make a member forum with a low entry price point ($2-$7 a month) see if you get enough bites to post your best tips there. (be sure to make SE bots able to see, but not index the member part as good content but don't want anything in there cached. Usually a sub group just for the top 50 of them will do it.)

[Tumbarumba]

The small photos in each post is making even more sense.

What you are saying is to treat the site's blog as a separate website, standalone if you like, to the online store even though both are on the same web space.

Two sites in one. One sells the product and other promotes it?

[Tumbarumba]

Well, I certainly have an interesting story for every photograph to drum up interest. Every photo is unique and many quite dangerous to get.

[kkchoon]

I would use only one ping service to avoid duplicate ping!

And not all sites had links to the backlinks we build, that's why I ping my profile links all the time. If you are posting a new article on your site, you just need to ping with one service, sit back and let the spider come.