Want To Get Your Latest Blogs Indexed At The Speed of Light?
Well if you’re using Wordpress then you’re in luck!
Traditionally your new posts and pages won’t get indexed until Google next crawls your site, which for a small site isn’t that often. The larger and more popular the site, the more frequently Google crawls to check for updates and index new pages. So what you want to do, is get links to your new posts onto big frequently-crawled sites the moment they go live.
But How?
Well I’m not going to get too technical here because frankly that’s not what this blog is about and I’ll likely get way out of my depth, but in short what you want to do is ‘ping’ an update service. Which is to say that when you post a new entry you want wordpress to tell some big social networking/rss sites that you have a new post, and that they should take notice.
How To Do it
In your Wordpress administration interface navigate to
Settings > Writing > Scroll To The Bottom > Update Services
You should see a text box filled with the default http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ which is the only service that Wordpress pings by default.
Logically, for Google to find us quicker we want to update as many of these services as possible, so here’s a list of some more that we use here (that have worked very well).
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blogupdate.org/ping/
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://ping.feedburner.google.com
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
So How Fast Are We Talking?
The record so far? 10 minutes.
I’ve had a couple of new blog posts who’s title I’ve Googled 10 minutes after posting and they’ve popped right up at number 1.
The Benefit?
People find your site, and they find it fast! Particularly if you blog about current events or breaking news of any kind this is a must have! I blogged the day that iPhone was released in the UK and I got indexed so quickly that I was number 1 for ‘O2 iPhone UK’ for a couple of days.
Final Notes
Typically with these posts getting indexed so quickly you may rank very highly for competitive keywords, over time though (a week or two) you should expect these rankings to drop back down to a ‘normal level’ for your site. Clever Google.
So, what’s the quickest you’ve ever had a fresh blog post indexed? Have you used any other techniques that have worked well to speed up the process? Let me know in the comments below!
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September 30th, 2008 at 9:53pm
So how would this be accomplished without using wordpress? Although the advice is good for only one of my sites runs wordpress.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:57pm
Hi Cory, thanks for commenting! Feedburner lets you highlight several of these to ping (if you use there services). Navigate to the Publiscize > Pingshot page and you should be able to select some options there. Hope that helps!
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:39pm
Great post - thanks for the info!
October 14th, 2008 at 12:46am
The way you could get the same effect without using WordPress would be to use Digg. Simply submit your stories to Digg using long tail keywords and you’ll get indexed fast. Google is always crawling Digg upcoming news.
October 15th, 2008 at 5:16pm
great post once again John! It’s so simple yet I would have never thought it up on my own.