How to tell Google about your new content?

[crtbs]

Hi Everyone,

I've noticed that a lot of blogs using WordPress are pinging Google about their new content, so in a matter of minutes the new content is indexed and displayed in the Google search results.

How can you do that exactly?

Thanks.

P.S. This is different than sitemap.

[wige]

In the options/writing section of the administration area, you should see a text box for Update Services. In that text box, add http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2, which is Google Blog Search's ping function.

[BradHart]

The best method for doing this within wordpress is use the gooogle xml sitemap plugin which not only updates the sitemap with the new content but pings google, msn, yahoo and ask

[crtbs]

Well, I am doing everything in asp.net and I want to use that functionality from WordPress in my applications. Does anyone know how to do that pinging in .net?

Thanks.

[Conficio]

There is a very simple solution. Create and RSS feed with the pages that are changing.

That is much better than pinging or an xml sitemap. However, Google does read your sitemap only with the frequency it deserves. So if you have bursts of changes, lets say you add ten pages in two days and then nothing for three weeks and then 5 pages in two days. Chances are Google figures a daily check or every three days is enough. However if you add about three pages a day, almost every day, it might check the RSS feed every two hours (especially if these are new pages and not just changes to existing ones.)

If you then want to also ping Google, read the Google Ping URI. But this needs a small program and programming knowledge.

Good luck

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