Are we allowed to ping our articles in various writing sites?
By scheng1
@scheng1 (24649)
Singapore
May 29, 2009 12:47am CST
Many of us write for Associated Content, Helium, ehow, and various writing sites.
Are we allowed to ping our articles? I have read some articles in AC and ehow about using free pinging services to ping the articles.
Obviously, using autosurf and traffic exchange to generate traffic is not allowed. So far, I know only lulu.com allows the usage of traffic exchanges to promote the storefront.
Have you tried to ping the articles you put up in various writing site? If we are allowed to use free pinging service, should we ping the profile page or each article?
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5 responses
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
29 May 09
Hi Itmoon, I do not mean mylot. Mylot does not pay for page views. But writing sites such as Helium, Associated Content, Bukisa, ehow and others do pay for page views. The more visitors means more earnings.
I'm not sure whether pinging is allowed. Hope I can ping all my articles, and attract more viewers.
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@SpikeTheLobster (6403)
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29 May 09
Heya! I think pinging mostly tells sites to update their RSS feed (though I'd have to check that). If that's the case, you'd probably be better off setting up a feed of your articles on Feedburner, then pinging that (though it updates automatically).
Since AC isn't included in any blog directories, I don't think there'd be much point in pinging it: it wouldn't update anything anywhere. I may be wrong, though.
Pingomatic.com is excellent for blog pings, by the way!
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@SpikeTheLobster (6403)
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29 May 09
Hmmm. The thing I wonder is where they'd show up. A ping is to make you appear on the 'recent update' list in a directory (like Technorati or BlogCatalog). So where would eHow and AC pings send an update? That's the bit that makes no sense to me. 
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@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
29 May 09
Hi Spike, I can understand if they ping the profile page. The profile page is similar to personal blog. So the various sites and directories can treat it as a blog.
I do not understand the logic of pinging each and every article too. Since a few Ehow writers are doing that, they must have experienced increase in page views.
Very puzzling, if AC allows pinging, I might want to try to ping every single article and monitor the page views.
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
29 May 09
Hi Spike, I have read a few articles in ehow about using ping-o-matic to ping all the articles. Apparently a few ehow writers are pinging each and every article they wrote.
And one article in AC shows the writer use pinging service to ping her profile page in AC.
That's why I wonder! If it is possible to ping all the articles in Helium and AC, I do not mind doing that!
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@spicysweetie21 (2573)
• United States
29 May 09
can you explain what pinging is? i have never heard that term, i recently started writing for helium and im trying to find out different ways to generate traffic too
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@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
29 May 09
Hi Spicysweetie, I see that you have a blog. Do make use of free pinging service to ping your blog. To ping your blog means to tell the search engines and social networks that you have updated your blog.
You can find out about free pinging services from some articles in Helium, ehow, Associated Content. Some of the free pinging services are provided by pingoat, ping-o-matic, autopinger.
I know that pinging the blog is the usual practice, but somehow I am surprised to read some AC writers and Ehow writers ping their articles. I'm not even sure if the writing site is agreeable to that.
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@underdogtoo (9579)
• Philippines
31 May 09
I think pings are great. They could bring the spiders to your articles but then again, the sites might already be pinging them so it would be a waste of their time and resources to visit an article which has been pinged. It might lead to banning or being penalized. Cheers!!
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
31 May 09
Hi Underdogtoo, I doubt the writing sites make use of the pinging service for every single article.
Some writers noticed that their articles were indexed by search engine only three weeks after the posting, and those are the writers with knowledge of SEO.
Many of my earlier articles were not written with regards to SEO, since I did not know about importance of SEO at that time. If pinging can increase 10% page view impressions, that will help!
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@Canellita (12029)
• United States
3 Jun 09
I think the best thing would be to email those sites and ask them about it. I don't quite understand how pinging works myself but when I want people to know about an article I have done I send out emails to hundreds of people and ask them to forward the info to their friends. I have started including links to my articles in my email signatures as well.
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
3 Jun 09
Hi Canellita, pinging is like telling the search engine and blog directories that there is an article or blog update.
Actually the idea never cross my mind, till I read some articles in ehow and AC about ways to promote articles. I have posted the question in AC forum, but no reply from AC.
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@Canellita (12029)
• United States
4 Jun 09
Interesting idea. I guess it is like adding your articles to Twitter feed and the like. I noticed AC has a way for you to connect your articles to your facebook page.
