Pinging your website without knowing why you are doing it, might be a problem. Especially if you are pinging the wrong services.
A ping helps you to inform other services which collect information about your feeds and list them into their database. These services have a list containing recently updated websites.
Also, you must be aware of the fact that pinging won’t deliver direct traffic to your website. It will simply generate indirect traffic to your pages by sending requests to other services which are using feeds for content.
Some services, like Yahoo, after receiving a ping, they will put your websites on a list which is going to be “spidered”. Having robot activity on your website is the ideal way to get listed in the major search engines.
Pinging your website it is the best way to attract search engines and get more traffic.
Some example’s of “what you shouldn’t do” :
- don’t ping blog related websites if your website it isn’t a blog
- if you have a blog, and you don’t have podcasts, don’t ping websites which are concentrating only on podcasts (just an example)
- ping only when you have updated your content
- do not ping your website if you have no feeds in it
All this info might be helpful and you should really focus on respecting other websites terms, unless you want your pings to be ignored.
Some good advice there! Here’s a few links worth using…
- Technorati which is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. Register & claim your blog!
- Ping-O-Matic is a service you can use to manually ping your blog. Ping-O-Matic currently pings 20+ blog search engines.
- Pingoat lets you ping over fifty blog services instantly.
