Don’t mess with this guy above or you’re in for a world of hurt! My latest guest blog post has just been published over at Web Movement, LLC and I must say I’m pretty proud of it. The topic for discussion revolves around the importance of distributing content. The cliche phrase that has become a mantra in the SEO community is “content is king”, which is a very true statement, the only problem is that who wants to be king is nobody’s reading? The post covers topics on how beginners can find effective ways of distributing content and how to begin establishing a workflow for content that already exists.
Check it out! You may learn a thing or two about how you distribute your own content.
In response to my previous post on blogs and pinging, here’s a definitive list of ping URIs I have kept in a textpad document over the past few months. Please let me know if you find duplicates, addresses that no longer work, or more that deserve to be on this list. Any new links will be added, with credit given to the person that submitted the URI. I’ll even throw in a link to your website or Twitter account, too!
Now… time for the list…
EDIT: The first list below are the services that DO work with WordPress right out of the box (or in this case, copy and paste)/ Enjoy!
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
After spending a few months doing some reading and searching, I’ve put together a comprehensive list of ping URIs for blogs, specifically WordPress. For those unaware, a ping in the blogosphere is an XML-RPC service that notifies services that a blog has been updated. Mind you, that spammers have already found ways to abuse the system by excessively pinging services to drive traffic to their sites, which may not actually contain updated content, but rather links to products or ads. Such activity is not condoned nor do search engines tolerate excessive spam pinging (your site could get banned from some search engines). On the other hand, effective and legitimate pinging does aid in search rankings and search engine optimization because if search engines are pinged when new content is made readily available, the faster search engines can crawl and index the fresh content.
For a few other articles on pinging and SEO, check out
For those that use WordPress like I do and worry that your site could yield a false positive for ping spam, there’s an awesome plugin out there called MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer which will limit excessive pinging that can occur when a blog post is updated or modified. The plugin only pings services when new content has been published. Users can also limit the minimum pinging duration for added security. The best part of the plugin is that it’s free, but you do have to provide your email address in order to download and use the plugin.
