Suggestions on pinging blog

[greent]

I started a blog 4 months ago. This is all new to me but the other day I was comparing my site with a site ranking higher and noticed he had a meta description and keywords on his blog.

I've added them today to my blog. I have about 400 posts. Should I be pinging all the pages again so that google can find the updates and rerank them hopefully.

[scarfacedude]

What engine do you use? Blogger or WP?

[my_misyel]

^Ping only once you updated your page. (Mostly, it pings automatically).

[greent]

I use WP, but I've had disabled the automatic ping, I prefer to do it manually using pinggoat.

[sankarjan]

Sorry....by mistake i wrote here

[markov]

If you are using wordpress, then it automatically pings to the search engines. Why not prepare a sitemap!

[robertgallagher]

Originally Posted by markov

If you are using wordpress, then it automatically pings to the search engines. Why not prepare a sitemap!

hay guise,
it's nice to learn that Word Press automatically pings to the search engines.

[gbh1935]

there are several good plugins for wordpress for creating sitemaps. here is where you can find one

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...map-generator/

don't forget, that google isn't the only search engine that can use sitemaps. Add a reference to the sitemap in your robots.txt file

ie
sitemap: http://[your sitemap url here]

and they ping the sitemaps to the other search engines.

[Dirky47]

kindly ping your blog when you make an update to it. Thanks!

[Ashley27]

I don't pinged every pages of my blog. I only ping my blog or site when I updated it.

[Gayana]

Originally Posted by greent

I started a blog 4 months ago. This is all new to me but the other day I was comparing my site with a site ranking higher and noticed he had a meta description and keywords on his blog.

I've added them today to my blog. I have about 400 posts. Should I be pinging all the pages again so that google can find the updates and rerank them hopefully.

Ping once and then ping each time you have an update. Here's a good pinging site: autopinger.com.

[Copybuild]

If you are using wordpress as your blog host, pinging of your blog will be automatically done. Unlike blogspot that you need to ping it every updates.

[john06]

What happens if I pinged my site twice?

[zeruel]

Originally Posted by john06

What happens if I pinged my site twice?

I don't think it will be a problem. But why would you ping it twice? Curiosity?

[gbh1935]

Captain Ramius: Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.

[rypher21]

ping your blog once you update it...

[my_misyel]

Originally Posted by gbh1935

Captain Ramius: Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.

You'll receive this message if you ping it more than once

"You're pinging too fast" ..."Your last ping was less than a few minutes ago"
(Pingomatic)

[thenicheblogger]

Originally Posted by my_misyel

You'll receive this message if you ping it more than once

"You're pinging too fast" ..."Your last ping was less than a few minutes ago"
(Pingomatic)

haha I've got that message when quickly pinging squidoo pages after updating a few at a time Just have to wait a few minutes then do it again on the next lens/blog/whatever.

[Dirky47]

Originally Posted by thenicheblogger

haha I've got that message when quickly pinging squidoo pages after updating a few at a time Just have to wait a few minutes then do it again on the next lens/blog/whatever.

Yeah... Don't need to ping it twice. Once is enough. Some pinging sites takes time to ping but some, few seconds is enough.

[gbh1935]

I don't think it would hurt, but it probably doesn't help. If search engines penalized you for pinging too much, folks would use it as a tool to attack the ranks of competitors.