Sending a Ping in Geeklog 1.4
- Sunday, November 27 2005 @ 04:23 pm EST
- Contributed by: Dirk
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So you've just published a new article on your Geeklog site and now you're eagerly awaiting the world to take notice. But it takes so long ... Sure, your regular readers will be notified through the RSS feed within the hour. But GoogleBot and friends will only come visit at their own pace and it will take even longer for your post to show up in their search engines. Isn't there some way to get the word out faster?
And indeed there is: As of Geeklog 1.4, you can send a Ping to weblog directory services, i.e. websites that specialise in listing the newest posts of blogs around the world. So by sending a Ping, you tell them "Hey, look! My new article is up!!!" and the sites send their spiders to index them. And within minutes, your post can be found on those sites. Nifty, eh?