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Does pinging actually work, are you wasting your time?

by billionareHuman
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I read alot of threads about pinging sites and backlinks to help them get indexed but how do you know it's the ping that is getting them indexed are you wasting your time?

The reason I say this is that Wordpress has an automatic inbuilt ping system which means you don't need to Ping, I have many wordpress sites and they all get indexed straight away (within a few hours) without me doing anything, never pinged them.

What I'm concerned with is my websites that are not wordpress and my backlink pages on non wordpress sites (which most profile backlinks are on). I've never seen anything get indexed from a Ping and I've done quite a bit of testing. I've even taken the pinging code from wordpress and built a script to ping all my urls and nothing. The urls do get indexed but in the usual 7 to 14 day cycle that most websites get indexed, so obviously that is not from the Ping!


Anyone got some proof that Google indexes your backlink urls and non wordpress websites from a ping?
#pinging #time #wasting #work
  • Profile picture of the author HostColor
    Pinging hasn't much to do with the indexing of the web pages from Search engines. Well in theory any website which was pinged was visited by something... either a human or a program. If a webpage receives a lot of traffic, this means it is important. But the best you can do is to bring visitors to the news pages in order to get them recognized. The more visitors you have, the better ranking and popularity you get.
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  • Profile picture of the author ArticlePrince
    I think pinging is a complete waste of time, if you update the site regularly it will get crawled anyway. Just my opinion
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    • Profile picture of the author Si_P
      I find that even though my site and supporting Web 2.0 sites are crawled regularly, it still doesnt hurt to ping. Create a list in a notepad file or something of all your RSS feeds then copy and paste to pingdevice.com. It will mass ping and save you time.
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      • Profile picture of the author cma01
        I think the main discussion about pinging is on the links you build on other sites, not the pages on your own. It is just to make sure that the page your link is on gets found.

        I read alot of threads about pinging sites and backlinks to help them get indexed but how do you know it's the ping that is getting them indexed are you wasting your time?
        If you use Sean Donahoe's Backlink Booster, there's really no time that you're wasting. All you do is click a button and it does it for you.
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        • Profile picture of the author searchnology
          Yes, this is the correct strategy for pinging. You want backlinks that aren't normally indexed to get indexed for SEO purposes.

          Originally Posted by cma01 View Post

          I think the main discussion about pinging is on the links you build on other sites, not the pages on your own. It is just to make sure that the page your link is on gets found.



          If you use Sean Donahoe's Backlink Booster, there's really no time that you're wasting. All you do is click a button and it does it for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author billionareHuman
    thanks for the advice people

    But how to do you know Pinging actually works?
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Kohler
      My results that I have personally had are as follows, and this is for WP blogs or regular sites:

      If you ping a website with new content every 3 days, I have had excellent results. Any more than that, I do not see an obvious spike in traffic.

      If you have, say 100 sites, I would update them in segments. With WP, it is easy in that you can post every 3 days with an automated poster and WP will automatically ping each post.

      I have seen no difference using an automated poster opposed to manual posting.

      The only major difference I have seen outside of this pattern is using completely unique content which seems to have a residual effect, meaning the site seems to attract visitors over a few days after the ping, opposed to sites with automated content posting, which gets traffic only on that day.

      Hope that helps.

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  • Profile picture of the author billionareHuman
    thanks Michael

    I'm only posting unique content rewritten by a human. Like you I have have spoken to someone who said the only way pinging worked for a non WP site was to post content very regularly and ping every 3 days or so.

    However it maybe that Google just decides that it likes you site because you update it often as is the case for most frequently updated sites, so it has nothing to do with the pinging.
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  • Profile picture of the author RNMKR
    do they have to be indexed or can they just be spidered to count as a backlink
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  • Profile picture of the author billionareHuman
    do they have to be indexed or can they just be spidered to count as a backlink
    I would say indexed, because the fact that Google knows about the page with the backlink doesn't mean it counts. It maybe that Google didn't like the page so it doesn't want to index it, thus your backlink doesn't count.
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  • Profile picture of the author TylerF
    If your site is totally new, pinging can actually help the spiders to find your site.

    Test it for a week and see the results, because results vary from person to person depending on their effort, persistence and motivation.
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