The How To -> Quickly Ping Any Open Page In Seconds! Time Saver Tip/Trick!

I am missing something here.... how do I get the code book marked?

OK from your explanation, I bookmarked the code, then I bookmarked a page I wanted to ping and it is done auto in the background.

How can we check if it is actually doing it?

lol... I prefer dragging it into my custom bookmark toolbar. But I've learned that some people are more visual and need screenshots.

Superb shortcut btw...thanks for this tip!

Thanks Tom for this tip and thanks also Blue Squares for explaining it step by step. Will this also work for squidoo lenses?

I created a lens a week ago and it still isn't indexed so am wondering if this would help it get indexed?

Thanks
lh

I'm not Tom, but I'd be happy to explain what Keith meant.

Yes, you are exactly right - if you comment on a blog, most blogs have a comment feed. If you have a comment in a feed, and that feed has a link back to your site, take that feed and submit it to RSS aggregators.

And ping it too. Technically, you can ping the actual page AND the RSS URL.

You can ping anything. A ping is just a notice that says "hey, this page has some new content on it, you should come by and index it (possibly again)" It's a single event. Now some blogs have a pinging mechanism, so that when you publish it automatically "pings" the new page every time.

That's not the same way aggregators work (or at least, you don't utilize them for quite the same reason.

When you submit your feed to aggregators, most of them will then just monitor the feed and when there is new info, it will pull it and republish on its site, in its own feeds, etc. Then those get scraped and republished, which benefits you.

It's true that some aggregators are ping sites too. Some just do one or the other. But the reason you do both is different. The ping will get your pages (and your backlinks) crawled and indexed and counting towards your rankings. The RSS submission will spread your actual content to be republished on other sites.

When it does, go ping THOSE places too, and if they have a feed that your link shows up in, submit that one too.

You don't HAVE to do these things, but it certainly helps. Pinging used to be kind of a pain in the ass, but now with this bookmark, it's not. Submitting the RSS feed manually for every site you post is also kind of a hassle, and you also want to do it fast so that your content is actually still in the feed when you submit it. I've been using Big Mike's RSS Bot to do this for feeds I don't own, while still manually submitting my own RSS feeds.

There's not so much a set reason for that other than I already have a systematic submission process in place for my own sites, so I haven't started using RSS bot for that yet.

Anyway, hope that clarifies things - pinging and RSS submission are related, and sometimes combined as a service, since you can kind of use the RSS feed to tell you, "hey this site got updated and needs a ping". You can see how if you owned a pinging service, that might be a handy shortcut. But as the webmaster, there are different results and reasons for making sure you do both, because there are different benefits.

Hope that makes sense.