Article Blog and Ping Does It Work?

Blog and Ping Does It Work?

I have been doing an experiment with blogging and
pinging, one of the ways which supposedly gets
your site listed and ranked higher quicker.

Firstly I’ll explain what blogging and pinging is.
Blog and ping is a technique you can use to get
your site listed in search engines. The idea is
that search engines like blogs because of the
ever updating content, so they keep going back.
By writing a blog and placing some site links
in the posts, the search engines will spider the
links, and pages shortly after you blog.

Pinging is when you send a “ping” to let the
directories, which keep lists of blogs, and when
those blogs are updated, know that you have added
content to your blog. These are allegedly closely
watched by the search engine spiders, so they can
spider any new content and add it to the search
engine which controls them.

Anyway, back to my experiment, does blogging and
pinging really get your site noticed?

Well my results have been encouraging. I have tested
by only using a blog as the front page of a new
information site I started.

http://www.informationpagesonline.com has only
been advertised by way of the blog to announce
new content, and then pinged through
http://www.pingoat.com which distributes the
blog entries to several large ping sites.

Following a week of adding content, and then
posting an announcement of the new content
to the blog on the front page and pinging
with pingoat, the site seems to be getting
visitors to most of the sections, which I can
see from the log files. I can also see some of
the traffic is coming from search engines, and
also a lot of spider activity can be seen on
the site, where the search engines are crawling
the content.

So I have to conclude that blogging and pinging
is a way of getting listed on search engines, or
at least of getting noticed by them quickly.

Should you be blogging and pinging?

Of course that’s up to you, but for the time it
takes, it maybe worth trying blog and ping for
yourself and tracking the results. A quick blog
post (use http://www.blogger.com if you don’t
already have a blog) and then ping with pingoat
takes only a few minutes, and may help a site
into all the search engines quickly.

About the Author

Douglas Titchmarsh writes several blogs including
http://www.informationpagesonline.com
and http://www.thediscountebookstore.com/blog
and also has a website at
http://www.monthlyinfoproducts.com