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How to "ping" search engines with new articles

by shopmunity
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Do you know of any wordpress plugin that "pings" google and other search engines as soon as you publish an article? I know that the sitemap gets updated, but that also depends on when google looks at it.

=> There are sites like http://www.googleping.com who do what I mean
#articles #engines #ping #search
  • Profile picture of the author pbgio
    If you're on WordPress it's taken care of, just make sure you search for a list of urls for it to ping.

    These services don't notify the search engines, usually they are content aggregators that collect information on which sites have changed, it is these lists that search engines check to send spiders to crawl.

    You can manually submit to Google, but I think this isn't necessary as if you have a good WordPress pinglist it's usually indexed in no time as long as the content isn't garbage.

    TLR
    In short, you don't need a plugin, it's built into WordPress. - Settings -> Writing -> Update services
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    • Profile picture of the author shopmunity
      Ah cool! Thank you! One more question - Do these kind of sites all support the same interface? I mean: is it a standard to ping your posts like that? Does this technique have a name?
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      • Profile picture of the author pbgio
        Originally Posted by shopmunity View Post

        Ah cool! Thank you! One more question - Do these kind of sites all support the same interface? I mean: is it a standard to ping your posts like that? Does this technique have a name?
        Yes, they are all (more or less) the same, all they are doing is notifying these agregators that your site has changed.

        Both the built in WP function and the web services you've come across will use XML-RPC (a way of sending info with an HTML request) to notify these blogroll type sites that your site has changed. they are both doing the same thing, the difference is the sites that it is notifying, so if you get a good pinglist (search WordPress Pinglist on Google) - you're doing the same (if not better) than the web apps.

        One Important thing to note though is that WordPress will only ping your posts, so it will not ping pages, category pages, author pages etc etc. You can use the web apps to ping these if you want, but there is debate on how effective pinging everything possible is though.

        You will be more than satisfied with a good ping list.

        Hope this helps
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  • Profile picture of the author S1YMY
    Hi,

    Make sure you have the plugin "XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress 4.0.8" or later installed as this generates the sitemaps that Google and lots of others use.

    Head over regularly to pingomatic.com and push your site out to a wider range of search engines.

    To best promote the site for search engine visits you need to do both the above.
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  • Profile picture of the author KamesCG
    The modern day ping is actually beating Google to indexing.

    You should post the content on all major Social Media networks: Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter, Reddit, etc... and let Google Index the new articles from those website.

    The website will be given higher value if you other Social Media websites have it present before Google does. It's a little more work, but you should really setup an automatic publisher that at a minimum publishes to Facebook and then you use Facebook's enormous awesome API to sync/publish to every other Social Media website.
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  • Profile picture of the author storedealstalk
    Agree with KamesCG, if you're looking for a wordpress plugin to submit your newly created posts to social media I suggest NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster Hope this helps.
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