Google announced that they will accept pings to their blogsearch service. Hopefully Pingomatic will support it soon so you don’t need to update your “Update Services” in WordPress. I’d say Matt’s sleeping off the jet lag from his trip to Vienna but it’ll probably be there in a few hours!
If you can’t wait, add “http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2″ to the “Update Services” in your WordPress Dashboard under Options->Writing.
Why is this good? By pinging Google you can tell them that you have updated your blog. That will get your post into the Google Blog Search index that much faster.
Update! Matt has already updated Pingomatic. WordPress users can rest easy that their posts will show up quickly on Google Blog Search now!
24 Comments
Robert (1 comments.) on October 6, 2006 at 10:28 am.
Too bad that wordpress.com does not allow adding ping url’s. We’ll have to wait for Matt.
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hwa (1 comments.) on October 6, 2006 at 11:58 am.
i thought we can add the ping url at Options->Writing correct??
googleslave (1 comments.) on October 6, 2006 at 12:32 pm.
great stuff, nice info.
It’s strange why its taken them so long to implement it, although thier indexing of new articles have never really been that slow.
But hey ho – the “med” blogs will at least have something else to spam
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Donal (27 comments.) on October 6, 2006 at 2:31 pm.
“i thought we can add the ping url at Options->Writing correct?? ”
Not for those of us who are hosted on wordpress.com it would seem.
Donncha (1707 comments.) on October 6, 2006 at 2:36 pm.
Even though you can’t modify who you ping on wordpress.com, Google blogsearch still picks up your posts, search for Donal or vanbregt to show posts from your respective blogs. No need to worry!
TechZ (14 comments.) on October 6, 2006 at 3:20 pm.
The Google XML Sitemap plugin, pings Google as well
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Lori (5 comments.) on October 7, 2006 at 10:57 pm.
Does anyone know if there are any penalties for pinging Google twice for every post, or if there is any reason to use the ping option for the sitemaps plugin if pingomatic is already doing it?
TechZ (14 comments.) on October 7, 2006 at 11:58 pm.
Lori, I’d think it’s best not to over do it and just use one of the ping options. Google might not like being pinged over and over.
You can also submit your XML feed via the Google Webmaster Tools.
Lori (5 comments.) on October 8, 2006 at 12:26 am.
Thanks TechZ
aJ (1 comments.) on October 8, 2006 at 6:51 pm.
Lori, TechZ:
This might help
http://www.google.com/help/blogsearch/about_pinging.html
Check out the previous to last question on this page. It answers the question you asked
drmike (11 comments.) on October 10, 2006 at 1:18 am.
Shouldn’t there be a checkbox over at pingomatic for Google though? I don’t see one.
colbert (1 comments.) on October 29, 2006 at 12:25 am.
thanks for the good tip. I’ve added it already.
Traveler (1 comments.) on October 18, 2007 at 7:46 pm.
very good tip.. i added it and googlebot is coming to my site when i add a content to my blog, immediately
Teenburg on April 9, 2008 at 12:36 am.
I’m add XML Sitemap plugin and use https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview
chethan on August 14, 2008 at 5:04 am.
sad I’am still trying very hard to get listed on the top of google search and get a PR but sad all hardwork is of no use
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nichive (1 comments.) on December 17, 2008 at 11:11 pm.
I wonder, does Google aslo provide a tool to actually ping any given domain, to test the quality of service from any web-hosting.
I landed here, coz I use the phrase “google ping” as the keyword
shivin (1 comments.) on December 10, 2009 at 6:47 am.
you can reed hear More http://www.google.com/help/blogsearch/pinging_API.html
Pardoseli (1 comments.) on February 22, 2011 at 4:32 pm.
I wonder: It is posible to ping google for a normal site? Must my site to be a blog? What happening if I ping google for a normal site? This is bad for my site? Is very interesting that Google Google gives more importance to personal websites than business one.