Pinging Service?
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Hi I'm considering using this pinging service http://www.pingler.com
I would just like people opinions on this? They will ping 25urls for me each month on regular basis. I can choose either to get my urls pinged daily or every 10 days for only $3 a month.
Does any have experience with pining services & will this benefit my seo, thanks.
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Mike, I think I almost got the jest of your reply post, but let me make sure. I'll make some assumptions out loud and you tell me if I'm reading the tea leaves correctly, if you don't mind, that is, please.
The site you mention, e.g. blogrolling.com etc., I take it those are sites that a ping service would notify about my newly submitted url to the ping service?
Regarding the 'keeping track' comments, I take it you mean that I could manually go to each of these sites and submit my site, but the ping services does that for me, and to many sites from my one submission to them?
As you can tell, ping services are new to me and like Socialdude who started this post, I am trying to understand it. Especially three aspects:
1. How and why do ping services work, and
2. What is their incentive to exist and do all this work for us for free? So they can advertise to us?
3. I own the site www.Grossinternational.com and I put new pages and blogs up on the site often so I am trying to understand if I should ping every new page and post, which I think I should, and second, should I ping them just the once and let it go or re-ping those pages?
It seems to me that I should only do it once, but when I see ping services offering to ping my site weekly or daily even, then I start doubting my understanding again. My latest blog tonight is at http://grossinternational.com/penny-auction-strategy/ and I just pinged it. Now, should I do that again in a week? And if so, why and how often?
Thanks for your help and time, and with me especially, thanks for your patience.
Kurt Gross, Knoxville, TN USA
P.S. One other question, i.e. I pinged this page with this post on it. Isn't that a good idea, or not?
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Thanks for the link Robert. I can't see details on the site for how regularly they check your sites - does the free service still check fairly regularly? we're currently using another service that I'd like to switch away from.
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cheers for the reply guys
@Mike I'm not using wordpress
My site is built using the cms http://modx.com so I'll find out how to add a pinging service to my site.OR as mentioned above just use pingler.com
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Yes, it basically spreads the word about your content.
As Ping-o-Matic puts it:
So why would you want to be on these sites? One word: traffic. Blogrolling scripts like blogrolling.com and WordPress check update services to see if you've updated and then shows it on everyone's site -- usually by moving you to the top of people's blogrolling list or putting a recently updated indicator by your link. Services like Technorati spider your links to track who links to you and who you link to; almost in real time. If you show up on someone's Technorati link list (often called an "egorati search") they're likely to visit your site to see what you said, increasing your exposure. Other sites like weblogs.com and blo.gs list recently updated blogs. Lots of people browse these when they're bored. Many of the services offer their own forms for pinging their own service, but keeping track of all those services is a hassle.
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Aaaaahhhh, thanks for the assist,
Does it assist SEO?
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Robert,
I think you and Socialdude are talking about two different meanings for pinging. Socialdude is talking about pinging regarding updated site/blog content, where you are talking about monitoring to make sure your site is still active.
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Hey,
Wordpress has a huge list of pinging services available:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services
I would think that one of those will do what you need.
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Before you make your decision, check out Mon.itor.us
We started using them when we had some sites on one of our dedicated servers go down. They monitor every IP address we have and we get reports via email and if a problem we get sms.
They are very good, have reporting, etc. and.....they are free.
Best of luck.
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