The Adult Blog Pinging Phobia….
I have read some posts on adult webmaster boards recently on the fear that some adult webmasters have about “pinging” their blog.
If you do not know what a “ping” is, click here for the Wikpedia article on “pinging”.
If you do know what pining is and are somehow fearful of pinging your adult blog as you update, it is time to put that notion to rest.
First of all, pinging is an intentional service intended to allow Search Engines to access and provide results for fresh content that is published in the blog format. It is specific to “blogs” because of their decidedly “news” and “opinion” orientation and bias in format of the publishing mechanism.
If you doubt that it is the intention of blog pinging services to wish to be let known of blog updates, following is a quote from the Google page introducing their blog pinging service:
“Today we’re launching the Google Blog Search Pinging Service, which is a way for individual bloggers and blog platform providers to inform us of content changes. Blogging providers who syndicate RSS/Atom/XML and want to be included in our Blog Search index can now ping us directly. We’ll continue to monitor other pinging services and will contribute change notifications to the community. Read more at our FAQ. “
This was published on this Google page in 2006.
Furthermore, pinging allows your new site to be indexed faster (I have put some blogs up on new domains that went from grey bar to a PR 0 in a matter of hours). It will also bring fresh traffic to new posts.
But, all webmasters, particularly adult webmasters, need to be concerned about being identified as a “ping spammer”. Because there should be concern, however, does not mean or imply that one should not ping their updates…
