Updating the search engines of new content to your blog will drive traffic to your site, and it will help in getting your site noticed by the search engines, and perhaps moved up in the SERP’s…as the search engines love new and unique content that is relevant to web searchers.
You can do a simple Google search for “pinging services” to get a list free services to ping your blog.
When I set up a new blog, whether it be on my own domain, or using a free blogging platform (ie, Squidoo, Blogspot, Quidzilla), I will use Pingomatic to ping my blog every time that I add new content.
If you have your own self hosted WP blog, then make sure you add the pinging services found here to your Settings > Writing > Updated Services in your WP Admin. Also, you can use Max Blog Press Ping Optimizer so you don’t over ping every time you hit the “Update” button when changing your content and postings.
What used to be a pain in the rearend now is made a lot easier with this one little trick. Previously, I would have to manually type in the web address to Pingomatic.com and then manually enter the URL of my blog, a title, and RSS URL. Not any more.
Here are the steps to automate pinging:
Step 1: Add a new bookmark to your browser. Here are the Firefox instructions, if you do not know how to do this.
Step 2: Enter “Pingomatic” in the Name field
Step 3: Insert this java code in the Location field:
javascript:(function(){var%20url=encodeURIComponent(window.location);var%20%20name=encodeURIComponent(document.title);%20var%20rss%20='';var%20%20links=document.getElementsByTagName('link');for%20(i=0;i%3Clinks.length;i++)%20{if(links[i].getAttribute('type')%20==%20'application/rss+xml')%20%20rss=encodeURIComponent(links[i].getAttribute('href'));}%20%20window.location='http://pingomatic.com/ping/?%20title='+name+'&blogurl='+url+'&rssurl='+rss+'&chk_weblogscom=on&chk_blogs=on&chk_technorati=on&ch%20k_feedburner=on&chk_syndic8=on&chk_newsgator=on&chk_myyahoo=on&chk_pubsubcom=on&chk_blog%20digger=on&chk_blogrolling=on&chk_blogstreet=on&chk_moreover=on&chk_weblogalot=on&chk_icerocket%20=on&chk_newsisfree=on&chk_topicexchange=on&chk_google=on&chk_tailrank=on&chk_bloglines=on';})()
Step 4: Click “Save”
Step 5: Visit any page, or posting of your blog, and simply Click your new Pingomatic Bookmark Button..and It’s Done!
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Great Tip! Thanks Mark!
That is great!! Thanks man!
Thank you Mark! I have tested it, and it works
Nice one, Mark!
Thank you.
Just tried it and it works like a charm. Thanks for the tips.
Spencer
Thanks it works great, but I thought that WP sends the ping to pingomatic automatically each time you post a new post?
In my article I discuss the need to ping your blogs on places link Squidoo, etc..
Hey Mark Great Tip. But then they always are. I just have to remember it is there now.
Hey cool it worked. I saw this tip elsewhere before with a different code and it didn’t work, but this one did. Thanks.
Wow, great code. It work guys… Thanks for trick…
In a few weeks reading this blog I have found so many tips like this that are making me to save a lot of time. Thanks!!
Thanks for the tip,works like charm!
This is AWESOME!!! Thank you so much!!!
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Dear Mark, I have your advanced course on senuke and I want to know how the traffic geyser compares to the nuke in the updated senuke video section. Is traffic geyser worth 97/month compared to what nuke can do. I noticed you did not care to do the video nuke in your course from senuke and recomended the geyser. Is it because it is bad to duplicate links? Would you use the pixelpipes, rss-mix, and identi.ca along with the senuke video and geyser together or pick one? And of course which one?
If you were to purchase a computer to run senuke 24/7 what shoud its capabilities be?
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