Pinging

[Allan]

Does pinging your site actually help?

 

[Derpec]

No it does not at all, i think it's just a waste of time.

 

[Allan]

I have tried a couple of times and seems like it does nothing.

 

[Derpec]

Yeah, it's just a waste of time.

 

[eNinja]

I have set up pinging on my WordPress sites via a plugin called MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer, but have never done any split testing to verify its effectiveness.

 

[Derpec]

It's not really effective on my side.

 

[Allan]

I have set up pinging on my WordPress sites via a plugin called MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer, but have never done any split testing to verify its effectiveness.

Let us know the outcome, if you ever do test it.

 

[briansmithx2]

It is effective for onsite posting

 

[wasi90lk]

Pinging your site can help, you should do it every time you update your site.

 

[newBB]

I used to ping my site every time I published a post but it didn't get them indexed. I don't ping my site anymore, "Fetch as Google" tool is thousand times better than pinging.

 

[Allan]

I have do fetch as google as well, probably not as much I should though