How to build links for your blog by Pinging
A simple SEO tip for building links to your blog posts is to enable pinging in the Wordpress Admin pages.
Pinging the major search engines and blog directories notifies them that you’ve made a new post so they should come and index it double-quick. On this blog, a new post normally appears in the Google search results within 5 minutes of being published.
The bigger benefit of pinging though is that there are a loads of automatic blogs that pick up new posts and link to them. It’s usual that within a few hours each new post on this blog picks up 3 or 4 links from other blogs as a result of pinging. These links aren’t of the highest quality but never turn down the opportunity for an easy link.
To enable pinging, you need to tell Wordpress which pinging services to use when a new blog post is published. To do this:-
- Log into your blog as the admin.
- Click on the Settings link over on the right, near the top of the page.
- Click on the Writing link on the left.
- Paste the links to pinging sites in the Update Services field at the bottom of the page.
- Press the Save Changes button.
There are hundreds of pinging services you can use, but there are only a few major ones worth bothering with. Here’s the list I use.
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2/ http://pingqueue.com/rpc/ http://ping.feedburner.com http://www.bloglines.com/ping
If you want to easily find out when someone links to your posts, enable trackbacks when you write a post. When another Wordpress blog links to you, you’ll then get a comment on the post being linked to in the form of a trackback. Askimet will pick these trackbacks up as spam so you can easily delete them before they get displayed as comments, but it’s a quick and easy way of knowing who’s linking to you.
For more Wordpress SEO Tips read Improving Wordpress blogpost titles and How to use the All-In-One SEO Pack.