Use of the Update Services that must be filled with List of Ping URLs is a source that sends pings to various search engines about your latest post. In other words, whenever you publish a new post or modify an existing post, WordPress sends a ping to all Ping Networks registered in the Ping Update Service area of WordPress.
So Search Engines will be notified of new posts or modifications that you have made to your WordPress site, and they will quickly index your posts so they appear in search results immediately, which is great for SEO optimization your WordPress website or blog.
A ping server will usually send notifications to several major services such as:
- Search Engines
- Directory of Website Directories
- News website
- Aggregators
- Feed Websites
- And much more
In this article I will explain how to easily enter a list of ping update services in your WordPress admin. Actually, by default the column has been filled with the ping service URL, but the URL entered by default is not complete.
How to Enter a WordPress Ping URL
The first thing you need to do is to login to your WordPress admin area and after that go to the menu section Settings »Writing» Update Services. Look scroll to the bottom and look for the Update Services column. Enter the Ping URL list into the column and click “Save Changes “.
Here’s the WordPress Ping List
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://rpc.twingly.com http://ping.feedburner.com/ http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 http://ping.bitacoras.com http://topicexchange.com/RPC2 http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2 http://www.blogoole.com/ping/ http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/ http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 http://blog.with2.net/ping.php http://blo.gs/ping.php http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/ http://ping.fc2.com/ http://rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/ http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx http://ping.pubsub.com/ping
I took the list of ping URLs above directly from the official WordPress site, so you don’t need to worry. You can see it right away here.
*Alternative
- You can also use free Ping services from Feed Shark which can ping more than 60 services for free for your website, please visit here.
- Feedburner users can use the Feedburner service Pingshot, which will alert the most popular ping services.
- You can also try other services from Vladimir WordPress Ping List, where the service is always checked and updated manually.
WordPress Multisite Network
By default, edit the Ping Services for network sites WordPress Multisite disabled. This can be reactivated with a plugin such as a plugin Activate Update Services .
And that’s an easy way to enter ping services URLs into your WordPress settings so that your articles are indexed quickly by search engines and improve WordPress SEO. Besides using the method above, you can also try how to quickly get an index from the Google search engine, you can read my other tutorials here → How to Quickly Index Articles by Google Search Engines . Hopefully useful and good luck.
