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SEO: Do You Ping Your Real Estate Blog?

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This is a great post, and I highly recommend pinging after you post new content to your blog. If you are setup on WordPress, I recommend using this plugin to automate the job. It will help to keep you from over pinging and getting banned in the pinging services.

 

Original content by Orlando Masis

Sometimes we work, sometimes we play, but when we get bored, we go find ways to drive more traffic to our site.

After writing a blog post, we ping. Do you?

Er, ah, what does it mean to ping a blog?

In a nutshell, blog pinging is telling search engines, blog directories and other places out there that your web site has new content. 

If you're running WordPress, you might already be ping-spamming unless you've installed a ping plugin that gives you more control over who and when you ping out your content. You only want to ping out NEW content, not updates, saves and edits to existing content, unless you've really given that old content a fresh injection of good stuff for your readers. If you ping out all of your edits and saves, you may get blocked for spamming which falls into the Not Good category.

We ping manually via a few free pinging services when we write new content:

  1. http://blogbuzzer.com
  2. http://pingomatic.com
  3. http://pingoat.com
  4. http://pingler.com
  5. http://mypagerank.net

We rotate through those 4 - we don't ping each one each time because they have considerable overlap in where they send the pings and again, you do not want to be a ping-spammer.

Some things to think about when you ping new real estate blog content:

  1. YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary. Some of the manually pinging sites seems to report successful pings when they still have defunct pinging sites on their list, which calls into question the legitimacy of their ping reports.
  2. Sometimes pings go through, sometimes they don't.  If you never ping, however, then your successful ping rate is a big fat ZERO.
  3. Free pinging sites seem to come and go, and we've found some that are frequently unavailable due to traffic overload.
  4. Just for kicks and grins, you can use a place lite http://websitegrader.com to give yourself a starting point for how your website is doing (compared to others), then check again monthly for a few months to see if you think your pinging plan in making a difference.

We recently installed cbnet ping plugin for wordpress and configured it with these ping destinations, and we're just now starting to track whether or not this helps drive (relevant) traffic to our real estate appraisal site:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.odiogo.com/ping/
http://pingmyblog.com
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/

We'd really like to hear about your pinging exploits, adventures, lessons and words of advice or caution so that we can better what we do, then share it all back with you.

 

Orlando Masis | Austin, TX |  (512) 914-1481 | Austin Appraiser for Real Estate in Central Texas

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Comments (4)

Larry Bettag
Cherry Creek Mortgage Illinois Residential Mortgage License LMB #0005759 Cherry Creek Mortgage NMLS #: 3001 - Saint Charles, IL
Vice-President of National Production

Jeff....a lot of good sights here.  Thanks.....this is something that I have not done.  Nor was I aware of it.  Thanks.

Apr 06, 2011 02:36 AM
Jasmine Jackson
202.794.3904 - Washington, DC
Global Realtor

Great information, thanks for sharing, Jeffry.

Apr 06, 2011 02:38 AM
Jeffry Evans
Temple, TX

Y'all are quite welcome. Again, if you are using WordPress, make sure to use this plugin to automate your pings, and protect you from over pinging.

Apr 06, 2011 02:40 AM
Jerry Newman
Brown Realty, 210-789-4216, - San Antonio, TX
Texas REALTOR, San Antonio Military Relocation

Hi Jeff...I was not familiar with concept of "pinging a post". Thanks for the information.

Apr 06, 2011 03:00 AM