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Google has launched their own pinging service, the Google Blog Search Pinging Service. Now you could easily inform them whenever you post a new content on your blog. The benefit of pinging is your blog will get extra traffic. Before you include the ping, make sure that you have register your blog here.

Here’s a quick guide on how to ping Google Blog using your Wordpress Blogging System.

1) First, go to your Admin Control Panel.
2) Then click “Option” tab.
3) Go to “Writing” section. Scroll down the page
4) Include the Google Pinging Service url in the box just like below.

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

What if you got another type of blog?

Blogger.com

Unfortunately, Blogger did not support automatic pinging for Google Blog Search right now. So you have to do it manually by submitting the url at the ping website. Don’t forget to activate automatic blog pinging for Weblogs.com though. Here’s how you do it.

Log in to your account and go to the ‘Settings’ section of your blog. Then, go to the ‘Publishing’ area. Choose ‘Yes’ in the part where it says: ‘Notify Weblogs.com’. Your Blogger.com weblog will then send pings to Weblogs.com every time you post new content. If you have more than one blog with Blogger.com, you need to activate this in all your blogs, if you wish to use the ping service.

Tips: There’s lot of other blog search engine out. Unfortunately, blogger did not support automatic pinging of other search engine than weblogs.com. There is a site where you can ping to various blog search engines for free, pingomatic.com.

Movable Type

Log in to your account and go to the ‘Configuration’ section and click on ‘Preferences’. Scroll down to the area where you can find: ‘Publicity / Remote Interfaces / TrackBack’. Pings for blo.gs, weblogs.com, and technorati.com are built-in and you just have to tick or untick the appropriate boxes. Add the url for Google Blog Pinging Service.

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

Note:

Blog pinging are often use by spammers to get ranked highly in the search engine. Do not make use of the service by pinging your blog several times.

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