In the most general terms a blog ping is simply a way of letting sites that accept the pings know you have updated your blog. The sites that you ping can then use your blog update information in various ways. Those uses include publishing your post headlines with a link to your post, providing search engine indexing, and notifying RSS subscribers that you have a new post.
The short answer to whether a blog ping helps with one way link building is yes. You should always include pinging as part of your link building campaign. The pinging process is quick, easy and has no negative impact. Since it does help with one way link building, doing a ping after every new post is a no-brainer.
The next question is how do you do a blog ping? The two usual ways to do a blog ping are to let your blog software do it automatically when you post or to use a blog ping service and enter your blog information then let them do the pinging for you.
Most blog software that you host on your own site will do the pings for you, but normally to a very small list of ping servers. For example, WordPress blogs are set to use Pingomatic by default. Pingomatic in turn will ping 15 – 20 servers.
What if you want to ping more sites? With WordPress and many other platforms you can enter your own list of sites to automatically ping. First you need a list of working sites to enter. Then you will want to be careful that the software does not timeout while trying to ping a long list of sites. I’ll give you another option in the next paragraph.
What if your blog is hosted on a service such as Blogger? You can go to Pingomatic and other similar sites and enter your blog information and have them ping for you. However, the list of sites they ping is fairly small. If you really want the maximum link effect and traffic from your blog ping you want to ping the biggest list you can.
I had been pondering that quandary for a while and was just not satisfied with the blog ping services that were available on the Net. So, I decided to create my own private blog ping service and list as many working ping servers as I could find.
I bought a blog ping script. The list of ping servers it came with was fairly large, but most of them didn’t work. I searched the Net and found about 400 ping servers from at least a dozen different lists. I tested them all and ended up with a list of 133 blog ping servers that actually worked. I was happy with myself that I’d put the work in and ended up with a very nice private blog ping service.
I had put so much work into getting this service just the way I wanted it I started thinking it was a shame that I was the only one that could use it. That’s when I decided to share the service with my newsletter subscribers. All you need to do is register for my newsletter and confirm your email address and you will get free access to my blog ping service. Go ahead and sign up now and you can ping one or even 100 blogs if you want.
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Gut!
thanks for the info.
Great idea, thanks for this tip!
Great post! I’ll subscribe right now wth my feedreader software!
Great idea, thanks for this tip!
hmmm, great post
subscribed!
Hey yo, I’m really happy for ya and am gonna let you finish but you didn’t mention PingNinja.com
Excellent article. Exactly the info I was searching for regarding blog pings
I am a subscriber. How do I get to your blog ping service? Thanks
Oooops, I found it.
I have used Lee’s 133 Pinging Service.
It is easy to use.
The services does actually ping 133 services. It provides you a log as it pings each service.
It works…
In less than a week after having tried it I see increased traffic trends in some of the sites which I tested it on.