Introduction

If you want lots of visitors for your site, first thing you need to do is ?get visible to search engines. Once you have search engine visibility, when someone searches for a keyword in a search engine, your blog is listed on top if not first. For this to happen, the first step is to inform the search engine that there is a page exists with a url http://myblog.blogspot.com. Normally, if you keep quite after publishing, it will take many days and sometimes many months for the search engine to find that there is a blog exist. It will take many more days (if the content is good) to reach top in search engine. You can fasten this process by informing the search engine as you publish and also every time you make some changes to the site.

Pinging

Simplest of this is manually pinging the server with search engine url and the rss feed from your blog.

For example, to ping yahoo, you need to type in
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://bobslinux.blogspot.com/atom.xml

As you can see,
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u= - Ping server.
http://bobslinux.blogspot.com/atom.xml - RSS feed of my blog.
If you are using blogger, it is the actual url followed by ?atom.xml?. It can be different for different blog hosts.

Ping servers

There are many ping servers provided by many of the major search engine providers like yahoo, google etc.
Following is an example list.

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://bobslinux.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://bobslinux.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://bobslinux.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://bobslinux.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Periodic Pinging

It is a nice idea to ping the servers periodically like say once in a week. A word of caution before going further -Don?t over do it. Search engines are smart enough and they might block your site for spamming.

Automatic Pinging

Most of the people have many blogs and even pinging once is week, manually typing the urls is a tedious process. So I have created a small tool to automate the process. It is very simple. Please download the tool by clicking following url.

Download

How to use?

It is very easy to use. When you extract the folder, you get a folder with following files. Modify the in.txt file with all your blog rss.xmls. If your blog is in blogger, and if your blog url is http://bobslinux.blogspot.com/, then the RSS url will be http://bobslinux.blogspot.com/atom.xml. Add one entry per line

There is one more file called ?Pingtargets.txt?. If you get to know more ping servers, you can add those to this list.

Once you are done, double click the batch file and it will automatically ping all the pingtargets with all the urls mentioned in the in.txt file.

You will get a report file Report.txt with result of pinging.

I hope this helps. I am using this tool to ping servers. Please use the tool at your own risk.

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