Source: searchenginejournal.com

Google has added a pinging service to its Blog Search offering. Dubbed Google Blog Search Pinging Service, now bloggers and blog providers (such as blogger, wordpress.com or blogs.com) can now instantly inform Google Blog Search of new posts and content changes.

Besides its own new Pinging Service, Google Blog Search uses other ping services to update its index as to when blogs are updated.

Sure, manual pinging is very 2003/2004 as most blog software pings automatically, but by using the Google Blog Search Pinging Service, bloggers will no longer have to wait for Google to crawl their blogs in order for new posts to show up in the Google Blog Search index.

By doing so, blogs get updated faster in Google Blog Search and Google can consolidate its blog crawling more efficiently.

Blogs can be manually submitted to the Google Pinging Service and most blog providers should soon start pinging Google automatically

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