Although Google has certainly simplified their sitemap process and plenty of free software is now out there to help, its still not a dead easy process to upload an entire sitemap.
I’m sure their must be an easy way around it, but this post shows a way in which you can inform Google of any new post to your site to get it indexed quickly.
Open your browser and type in the following, adding your blog domain where appropriate:
www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2[www.yourdomain.com]%2Fatom.xml
This will then get Google to ping your blog.
It will only ping the home page but will eventually follow the new links and index the new posts. You need to do this every time you create a new post so Google knows you’ve added some content, so it might be worthwhile adding the link above (with your domain inserted) to your browser favorites.
You can also add your blog to a personalised Google homepage. Unfortunately at time of writing this you couldn’t do this in google.co.za, but you can from google.com or .co.uk.
At the moment Google knows nothing about our blog, so it will be interesting to see if we can get indexed in the next few days.
- Mike
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Please tell me what thees means to ‘ping’ your blog? I think she is not very nice, esse. What does this ping she mean?
Please tell me what thees means to ‘ping’ your blog? I think she is not very nice, esse. What does this ping she mean?
The best way to remember it is to think about submarines. Remember those old war movies when they used to all go silent onboard the sub, the only noise you heard was an intermitant: ping, ping, ping.
I think I’m right in saying that those pings were something to do with sending out a signal and if that sound signal hit another object it would echo back letting the sub where its target was.
I’m waffling, sorry. Its basically means sending out a signal. And in blogging context it is sending out a signal to the search engines.
Check this out. this is the technical explaination in Wikipedia:
“ping is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network. Ping works by sending ICMP echo request packets to the target host and listening for ICMP echo response replies. Using interval timing and response rate, ping estimates the round-trip time and packet loss rate between hosts.”
What the @*$% ? This is Andrew and Robin speak!
Que? What is this ‘waffle’? Who is thes Andrew and Robin?
They’re a bit like Batman and Robin, but without the underpants over their trousers. They’re the technical guru’s that make sure the websites we do work. They speak a language of their own. A bit like you with your wierd mexican/south african accent. Esse