Ping New Content and Have the Search Engines Come to Your Website Almost Instantly!
You may be familiar with the concept of pinging. In blogging terms this is an automatic process when you publish a new post on a blog. The blog sends out a message to essentially tell other services “Guys, I have a new post for you, come check it out sometime”. Usually the website receiving the ping will do just that, and add it to their content somewhere. As I say this is an automatic part of blogs, and is one of the reasons why blog posts are quickly indexed by Google. Google might take days to find your post when it next decides to visit your website. However, if a website like technorati indexes your website the Google bot is checking that for new content hundreds of thousands of times per day. As a result it will often quickly find your post by following the link from technorati (or another site like it) and index your post right away. Sure would be nice if this was available for non blogs, wouldn’t it? Well guess what, it is!
