WordPress ping list is necessary and very useful to extend your blog’s reach to major search engines, so they (search engines) know that you have just published a new post.
When you publish a new post on your blog, WordPress automatically notifies the listed site update services.
By default, Pingomatic ping service active in the service list on your WordPress dashboard notifies the different search engines.
But you can manually enter more ping services in WordPress for faster indexing of your WordPress site.
Here is the latest ping list updated for faster indexing of new posts.
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What is Blog Pinging?
Ping is a mechanism that WordPress and other blogging software use to notify Search Engines that your website content has been updated.
Well A Ping is just a packet of information (notification) that is passed on from one network device to another or services (here it is the search engines) to let them know about your newly published article/post.
It’s a way to spread the word around about your Blog.
Think it this way, after completing your article you come out of your house and shout loudly “Hai I’ve just published one of my best articles” so everybody in your neighborhood gets to know about that.
The only difference here is(Pinging)to let all the search engines get notified about your blog post so it gets indexed faster and you get more traffic. Got the idea now?
By default WordPress, Ping List service is “rpc.pingomatic.com”.
But that is only one service and it’s always good to update your Word press Ping list, to include more services, which will help to get your blog indexed faster by more search engines and of course more traffic.
However, you need to know that ping and update services are not the key factors to improve your blog rankings. There are many things you need to do in order to improve WordPress SEO
Quick Guide How to add Ping Services to WordPress?
Log on to your WordPress admin page, on the left side menu under settings > click on writing > then on the right side scroll down to Update Services” and in the box copy-paste the WordPress Ping list services, then click “save changes”. That’s it.
Here is the latest WordPress Ping list
You can copy the full list from below and paste it in the Update services box, and save it
Once your ping list is updated. Now every time when you publish a new post or modify an existing post, WordPress notifies the all above ping services automatically.
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