To Ping Or Not To Ping......

[rslaing]

I had one of my articles published over the last two weeks in 420 article directories (AMR confirmation) but my backlink count has not increased - I've checked it with various software including Market Samurai and the latest version of SEO Spyglass. Should I ping the URLS or just let nature take it's course?
Thanks

[opportunist86]

You should ping them. This will make search engines crawl your links sooner I guess. if possible, ping RSS feed also.

[edegreeusa]

Ping them as well as bookmark each of your URL and try to give eye catchy description in the bookmarks where ever required!

[mikest4u]

Well You can Ping Them so Search Engine can crawls your Links! You can Also Social Bookmarks your Links as well!

[charlescl]

In what universe you don't ping them?

[Mike Hutton]

thats a small enough number mate you should be fine to ping them, the problem comes when ppl start pinging massive scrape box blast of like 10k + your asking for trouble then, yours should be fine its contextual backlinks and its not a massive amount

[Petchonka]

I usually ping when I get new content on my site. I mean, I've heard it doesn't matter either way, but it only takes a minute or two, so what's the big deal?

[JaviB]

I think that every day is more difficult to index poor backlinks like forum profiles, directories pages, bad article directories, etc.. so its important to ping, create RSS feeds or whatelse to increase possibilities.

[rslaing]

The man that does the scrapebox instructional videos (loopline?) recommends that you don't ping articles because the search engines will pick them up naturally and pretty quickly. If you rss ping them apparently it looks like they are "unnatural" and could look suspicious. I just thought I would ask for other people's experiences and consequences. Thanks for the responses - I'll give it a day or two and start an rss ping.

[BenJackson]

Originally Posted by rslaing

I had one of my articles published over the last two weeks in 420 article directories (AMR confirmation) but my backlink count has not increased - I've checked it with various software including Market Samurai and the latest version of SEO Spyglass. Should I ping the URLS or just let nature take it's course?
Thanks

Your backlink count doesn't matter, what matters is how many are actually indexed.

You can use scrapebox to check how many are indexed or search for each URL in "quotes" in Google.

Usually with AMR blasts like this 10-30% or so will get indexed on their own. Honestly, pinging is very weak for increasing this, but I wouldn't get wild with the indexing. Aggressive linking CAN hurt your rankings for months. The common mistake is that people neglect the difference between the number of links rapidly built VS the number of links rapidly indexed.

If you're not building all of these links directly to your money site and want to increase indexing rates then instead of pinging I would suggest...

1. Linklicious
2. Backlink Energizer
3. SEO Fast Indexer
4. Social Bookmarking (software of your choice)
5. Tiered RSS Submission

[rooze]

If Google doesn't 'naturally' find a link to my website then it's probably the type of link that I don't want pointing at me in the first place.

[HKSEO Rotzee]

Originally Posted by rslaing

I had one of my articles published over the last two weeks in 420 article directories (AMR confirmation) but my backlink count has not increased - I've checked it with various software including Market Samurai and the latest version of SEO Spyglass. Should I ping the URLS or just let nature take it's course?
Thanks

Yes you should ping them, sign up for linklicious.me

Also remember, although Market Samurai is the best independent search engine...but it doesn't mean it will crawl the entire internet. Hell, Google doesn't crawl even CLOSE to the entire internet...and thats GOOGLE.

Market samurai has to crawl the fraction of the internet that it can, plus re-crawl everything it already knows about...its not reasonable to think they are going to find all of your indexed backlinks.

Your wasting so much time worrying about that, when you could just put your links through an automated pinger, get your links crawled so that google adds them to its "Crawled Database" and then let them start helping your SERPS.

As soon as it crawls your links and it is added to Googles Crawled database, it will begin helping your SERPS, Google will then pick and choose which of these it wants to add to its "indexed database" which will make those links help you even more.

[steven Clayden]

I always ping when i add new content to my site, once pinged i go over to imautomator.com and bookmark it. Did it earlier and got indexed in 3 minutes.

[nora1]

i would ping them and use linklicious.me service to do so

[flashcontent]

you should ping it, it will increase your indexing rate. You can also bookmark your link and rss it, or using linklicious to help indexing your backlink.

[jackpeter20]

The problem comes when ppl start pinging massive scrape box blast of like 10k + your asking for trouble then, yours should be fine its contextual backlinks and its not a massive amount.

[HKSEO Rotzee]

Originally Posted by jackpeter20

The problem comes when ppl start pinging massive scrape box blast of like 10k + your asking for trouble then, yours should be fine its contextual backlinks and its not a massive amount.

That is what the scheduler feature is for in linklicious. You can set up 10k but schedule it to drip out at a safe rate.

[OO]

I ping only one time as of late, however not pinging is more natural.

[thetravelbug]

Originally Posted by jackpeter20

The problem comes when ppl start pinging massive scrape box blast of like 10k + your asking for trouble then, yours should be fine its contextual backlinks and its not a massive amount.

What about say pinging a list of maybe 100 wiki links a week, or every 3 or 4 days?

Or would it be better to just bookmark all the links (tend to use Delicious) and then ping the rss feed?

[Royalking]

If you have spun those articles into unique ones and then submitted to 450 directories then its worth pinging them but if they are all duplicate then don't do it.

[kea55]

I too think that pings are good, but everything in moderation is a very good practice I believe.