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Another Part Of Blogging Dies – Pinging

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  1. Otto (215 comments.) says:

    I’ve said it before, but XMLRPC pings are kinda useless. Install RSSCloud and the PushPress plugin and your content will get to readers in seconds after publishing it.

  2. Paul (1 comments.) says:

    Thanks for the mention Jeff!

    I was a little apprehensive about publishing that particular article, but the outcome has been pretty much one sided and seem to agree with the points you and I have made.

    Since that post I have been pinging Ping-O-Matic’s list and many never actually get there, so one would assume there isn’t much life left in pinging!

  3. Tom Coburn (67 comments.) says:

    I never did understand the point to pinging anyways, always seemed like a spam tactic to me

  4. Angie (20 comments.) says:

    While there is no spike in traffic when pinging services are used, there definitely is faster indexing by the search engines. I’ve never used pinging to help out with extra traffic, but the difference between how fast my blog with pinging enabled gets indexed versus a blog with pinging disabled is staggering. That of course provided that all of the pages from the later get indexed to begin with, which is another positive side effect of pinging – it helps fast indexing before your page gets buried and missed by the spider. I would certainly not ditch pinging unless you already have a PR5 or higher blog so SE spiders are on it at all times.

  5. Michael Pate says:

    It lasted 9 years (sort of) but everything comes to an end eventually…

    http://oldweblogscomblog.scripting.com/2001/10/21

  6. Doug Smith (17 comments.) says:

    I suspect pinging as we’ve known it is nowhere near as important if you generate an xml sitemap when new content is added and then ping Google and others using their specific services to notify them that your sitemap is updated. In my experience, that makes a huge difference in the time to get your content indexed.

  7. Simon (1 comments.) says:

    Thanks for the heads up, I have been pinging my blog from the beginning, but its new so I can’t really tell if its working or not, but I will try to use the RSSCloud to see some results.



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