Google announced today that bloggers can now ping Google Blog Search. Pinging is basically a way to tell a service that you’ve updated your blog.
From the help page from Google:
The Google Blog Search Pinging Service is a way to inform Google Blog Search of weblog updates. These updates are then published and shared with other search engines to allow them to discover the changes to your weblogs. In addition, Google Blog Search will add submitted weblogs to the list of blogs it needs to crawl and index.
If you’re using Word Press for your blog (not WordPress.com however), you make these settings in the Dashboard under Options and then Writing. This is who I ping with each post:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
This is a very simple way to get your updates added to the blog search engines. With these four pings I’m using, I’m letting Ping-O-Matic, Technorati, Bloglines, and now Google Blog Search know every time I’ve updated a blog.
Simple marketing.
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I didn’t even realize Google had a specific blog search; I guess it’s good, then, to be able to ping it.
With the other options you gave as current ping recipients; I may be mistaken, but I think that when you send a ping to ping-o-matic, they, in turn, ping Technorati, bloglines, and a lot more. (http://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services) This is where I’m not sure, but I think some of those services frown upon being pinged more than once for the same post. So I’m not sure I’d ping Ping-o-Matic AND Technorati, for example.
I think I will add this new Google ping to my update list, and I’ll keep an eye on Ping-o-Matic to see if they end up adding it to their collection of automatic pings.
Paul, I have no proof that pinging all of those is a problem. Ping-o-matic does ping a lot of folks, but it has seemed that pinging bloglines, google, and technorati individually has spead things up a bit.
That’s what I wasn’t sure about. I’ve read accounts of people saying yay or nay for both methods so I wasn’t sure.