Should I Ping a URL Link

4 years ago

No, it is not important, mandatory or even necessary. In fact, we've never done it. You can submit new URLs directly to Google or even just posting them on social networks will get them immediately noticed by search engines.

Or ... you can just wait for the search engines to crawl the site and find them. If the site constantly has new content, search engines will crawl the site more often. If it is a rarely updated site, they might only crawl it once per month.

Of course, I'm not sure why it even matters. If you think that Google is going to rank your site better because there is a link in a forum to it, you better come up with a much better SEO strategy. Even if it is one of the few remaining forums that don't have nofollow links, Google is going to ignore the link because they know that website owners can place them, themselves; therefore, it is not an earned link and holds no value.

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aminsaleh

4 years ago

Originally Posted by dave_hermansen

No, it is not important, mandatory or even necessary. In fact, we've never done it. You can submit new URLs directly to Google or even just posting them on social networks will get them immediately noticed by search engines.

Or ... you can just wait for the search engines to crawl the site and find them. If the site constantly has new content, search engines will crawl the site more often. If it is a rarely updated site, they might only crawl it once per month.

Of course, I'm not sure why it even matters. If you think that Google is going to rank your site better because there is a link in a forum to it, you better come up with a much better SEO strategy. Even if it is one of the few remaining forums that don't have nofollow links, Google is going to ignore the link because they know that website owners can place them, themselves; therefore, it is not an earned link and holds no value.

Big thanks to all answers - and bigger thanks to this answer mainly. I liked it. Yes I am now really looking for better SEO ways to improve my content on Google and other SEs.

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George Flm

4 years ago

Yes ping them, if you want the search engines to find a not so reachable piece of content.

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ryanbiddulph

4 years ago

Hi Amin,

Do not focus on Pinging. Focus on creating helpful content and befriending top bloggers in your niche. Create and connect persistently to build a thriving forum.