There are many ways business blogs put your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) on autopilot, and the ability to ping search engine servers every time you post new content is one of them. Quite a few people just starting out blogging for their business miss out on this painless optimization technique because they don’t know what it means to “ping their new blog content.” So here’s a quick, simple explanation…

“Pinging” your blog is simply letting the RSS and blog-specific search engines know that you have new content on your blog. Pinging your new blog content allows instant indexing of your new content by these directories. With a normal website, you post new content and you wait for the search engine spiders to come in to crawl your site to index new content (which can take from 48-hours to a week or more to happen.)

Best thing about pinging is that WordPress can take care of this automatically for you every time you publish new content live to the web. Although you can access the update list at WordPress.org, here it is for your convenience:

    http://1470.net/api/ping
    http://api.feedster.com/ping
    http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
    http://api.moreover.com/ping
    http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
    http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
    http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
    http://bblog.com/ping.php
    http://bitacoras.net/ping
    http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
    http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
    http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
    http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
    http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
    http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
    http://blogupdate.org/ping/
    http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
    http://coreblog.org/ping/
    http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
    http://ping.amagle.com/
    http://ping.bitacoras.com
    http://ping.blo.gs/
    http://ping.blogg.de/
    http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
    http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
    http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
    http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
    http://ping.feedburner.com
    http://ping.myblog.jp
    http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
    http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
    http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
    http://ping.weblogs.se/
    http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
    http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
    http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
    http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
    http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
    http://rpc.britblog.com/
    http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
    http://rpc.newsgator.com/
    http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
    http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
    http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
    http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
    http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
    http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
    http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
    http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
    http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
    http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
    http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
    http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
    http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
    http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
    http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
    http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
    http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
    http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
    http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2
    http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
    http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
    http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
    http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
    http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
    http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
    http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
    http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
    http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
    http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
    http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
    https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
    http://www.packetmonster.net/xmlrpc.php

Just copy the list above and paste it into the area under “Update Services” in your WordPress admin panel under “>Options>Writing” then click the “Update Options” button.

After that every time you publish new content on your business blog the pinging will take place automatically for you. (Note: be sure to copy and paste the list below the existing “http://rpc.pingomatic.com/” entry already there.)

Enjoy! :)

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