Letting the search engines know about new content you have posted is key to gaining traffic. In my last post 5 Simple Ways to Increase Website Authority we talked about how fast your new content will get indexed. Normally if your site does have authority it could be indexed in under an hour even less sometimes.
Another way to let the search engines know is by pinging. Some people say let the search engines find the info on their own, but pinging is still a good way to get new content noticed.
There are 100’s of pinging services out there and it can be overwhelming sometimes. Pingomatic is a great service, but you need to manually enter all your site information, title, url, feed, etc. Not anymore. This little trick rocks!
Steps to automate your pinging process -
Step 1: Add a new bookmark to your browser. Here are the Firefox instructions, if you do not know how to do this.
Step 2: Enter “Pingomatic” in the Name field
Step 3: Insert this java code in the Location field:
javascript:(function(){var%20url=encodeURIComponent(window.location);var%20%20name=encodeURIComponent(document.title);%20var%20rss%20='';var%20%20links=document.getElementsByTagName('link');for%20(i=0;i%3Clinks.length;i++)%20{if(links[i].getAttribute('type')%20==%20'application/rss+xml')%20%20rss=encodeURIComponent(links[i].getAttribute('href'));}%20%20window.location='http://pingomatic.com/ping/?%20title='+name+'&blogurl='+url+'&rssurl='+rss+'&chk_weblogscom=on&chk_blogs=on&chk_technorati=on&ch%20k_feedburner=on&chk_syndic8=on&chk_newsgator=on&chk_myyahoo=on&chk_pubsubcom=on&chk_blog%20digger=on&chk_blogrolling=on&chk_blogstreet=on&chk_moreover=on&chk_weblogalot=on&chk_icerocket%20=on&chk_newsisfree=on&chk_topicexchange=on&chk_google=on&chk_tailrank=on&chk_bloglines=on';})()
Step 4: Click “Save”
Step 5: Visit any page, or posting of your blog, and simply Click your new Pingomatic Bookmark Button..and It’s Done!
Gotta love that!
Thanks to Mark Dulisse for the tip! It rocks!