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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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