Sitemap pings for instant search updates
Publishing your blog on WordPress.com lets you focus on your content while we sweat the technical stuff, including helping your content reach a larger audience.
Last week WordPress.com turned on sitemap pings for our millions of hosted blogs. Now, immediately after you publish or delete a page or post*, your WordPress.com blog sends a ping to Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask. These immediate notifications help the major search engines receive your new content as quickly as possible (often within seconds) so your blog can show up in search results faster.
Help search engines discover your content
Sitemap pings are just one of the ways WordPress.com helps your content reach a large audience moments after you hit “Publish.” Every blog includes support for webmaster validation through Google, Bing and Yahoo! webmaster portals. Post updates are sent through Ping-o-Matic!, a ping relay tool owned by the WordPress Foundation, to major feed reader and blog search engines. Our Publicize feature updates your Yahoo! and Twitter accounts with a short summary and a link back to your blog content. These are just some of the ways WordPress.com helps you find your audience.
More information
- Creating and submitting sitemaps to Google
- Bing Webmaster Tools
- How Yahoo! supports sitemaps
- Ask.com webmaster FAQ
* Note: We only expose content to search engines for public blogs on WordPress.com.
Feb 11th at 12:24 am
thanks wordpress
Feb 11th at 12:27 am
WOW! Once again, WP pulls off more awesomeness. Good for the heads-up that it is in effect. I assume this means we need to make sure the title, content and keywords are exactly as we wish before hitting the “publish” button because that is what will show on the search engines, correct?. Does it re-ping if we make any changes to the post itself, or only if we delete? Thanks again!!
Feb 11th at 6:32 pm
We send updates to search engines on every change of content including post edits and new approved comments.
Feb 11th at 9:13 am
great feature! WP seems to be having a lot of changes and improvements these past couple of days…
Feb 11th at 9:18 am
Grateful I am to all you whizzy-technical-types who are prepared to sweat buckets on my behalf…just so that I my humble posts may ping.
Feb 11th at 9:27 am
I have no complaints about the indexing of my wordpress.com blog at least. I can find my new post in google after just 5 to 10 mins of the post.
Feb 11th at 9:32 am
I was amazed that after publishing yesterday my blogpost was up on Google (using two words searching) after just a minute or so. Fantastic. Thanks a lot for a GREAT service! Loves WordPress! /
Feb 11th at 9:41 am
Really immediately after you publish how kool is that very nice update Niall!!
Feb 11th at 9:46 am
This is good news for all of us. WordPress.com is working hard to make our life easy. Thank You WordPress
Feb 11th at 9:50 am
Cool! This is a very good news to me
Thanks, WordPress!
Feb 11th at 9:56 am
This is really fantastic!
Feb 11th at 9:58 am
Superb and awesome. Getting more and more convinced for having chosen wordpress.com against wordpress.org.
Thanks a lot.
Feb 11th at 10:09 am
Tanx all
Feb 11th at 10:16 am
oh this is great. hm, but if we need to edit a post for quite a few times (like live updates to some breaking news), it will send repetitive pings – resulting to ping spam?
Feb 11th at 6:36 pm
We send sitemap update notifications to major search engines every time your site content changes. Each post edit or approved comment results in a new notification. This update frequency is the preferred behavior of search engines interested in discovering fresh content without needing to revisit your blog unnecessarily.
Feb 11th at 10:31 am
Thank U….
Indeed this is great….
Just now I have observed that posts are updated for google….
One more reason to stay on this blogging platform ….
Feb 11th at 10:38 am
Can Publicize also update facebook?
Feb 11th at 5:25 pm
@Daphne: just Twitter and Yahoo for now.
Feb 11th at 10:54 am
great! i like it. thank you
Feb 11th at 11:03 am
amazing
keep it up
Feb 11th at 11:29 am
I’m glad you let us know, as I was going to my webmaster accounts and manually re-submitting the sitemaps…
Cheers
Feb 11th at 6:37 pm
Registering for webmaster accounts on major search engines always helps. You should see your ping status and indexing completeness reported in your webmaster console.
Feb 11th at 11:44 am
Publishing your blog on WordPress.com lets you focus on your content while we sweat the technical stuff, including helping your content reach a larger audience.
I like this. I like it a lot.
Feb 11th at 11:47 am
This is very cool – makes wordpress service so much better.
Feb 11th at 12:16 pm
Thank you.
Feb 11th at 12:25 pm
good work dear…
Feb 11th at 12:42 pm
This is a step in the right direction. Thanks for listening. I did Google search for blogs on eelgrass, and the one I’d posted 45 minutes before came up # 1. I say that’s peak performance.
Feb 11th at 12:58 pm
That’s really cool! A great Big-Up for You!
Feb 11th at 1:01 pm
Yes! Very good for us. Thanks!
Feb 11th at 1:04 pm
thankss. .
Feb 11th at 1:17 pm
Wonderful! Thanks WP!
Feb 11th at 1:29 pm
Well, many thanks!
Feb 11th at 1:46 pm
Very cool!
Feb 11th at 1:46 pm
It sounds interesting! Keep Up!
Feb 11th at 1:50 pm
My blog client is pinging itself. Is it bad in the eyes of Google if there are several pings (my software and sitemap pings) for one posting? I could disable “my” ping.
Feb 11th at 1:51 pm
Nice one! This is excellent news WordPress Team
Feb 11th at 2:12 pm
Less to worry about more to love about WordPress. Thanks guys and gals.
Feb 11th at 2:26 pm
Yippee! My ramblings can now annoy a larger audience!!!
Feb 11th at 2:36 pm
Lumayan.
Feb 11th at 2:36 pm
ah! nice. Now I do not have to tell google when i remove a tag before google blames me for 404 pages
Feb 11th at 2:58 pm
This is a great service. About a year ago we started using Feed Burner, and have a link to their reader feed on the sidebar. Are you still associated with Feed Burner, or just Ping-0-matic?
Feb 11th at 5:51 pm
FeedBurner pings are handled over XML-RPC through Ping-o-Mattic.
Feb 11th at 3:33 pm
Great as ever!
Feb 11th at 3:44 pm
Yes, I am curious to know how fast the newly created page could get a lot of visitors…especially when the page and content are full established.
Feb 11th at 4:02 pm
Very, very nice! Great Job guys! Thank you very much!
Feb 11th at 4:15 pm
wow! thats innovative guys. love u all!
Feb 11th at 4:38 pm
Thank U
Feb 11th at 5:15 pm
Amazing, this is seriously impressive. I was pleased with the number of visits to my blog but now I may get even more! Thank you WordPress : )
Feb 11th at 5:34 pm
that’s a really good news, we needed that so bad… I’m so glad thanks a lot
Feb 11th at 5:40 pm
thanks….
Feb 11th at 5:42 pm
Wow, I like the sound of that, another great development!
Feb 11th at 7:01 pm
Thank you. Just one more reason why we are on WP
Feb 11th at 7:20 pm
Great! Thanks ! Does this apply to wordpress.org as well?
Feb 11th at 7:40 pm
That rocks.
Next stop, GOOGLE STARDOM!
…..or not.
Feb 11th at 7:52 pm
Great! Thank you for all the hard work and efforts in helping us get our blogs noticed – much appreciated!
Feb 11th at 9:50 pm
Thanks for the effort!
Feb 11th at 10:22 pm
Fantastic …..thank you
Feb 11th at 11:10 pm
i love wordpress
Feb 11th at 11:59 pm
This sounds good, thanks.
Feb 12th at 12:11 am
I feel indebted to all of you guys at W.P. for every minute and sweat you have given us. Could not ask for more. Thank you so much guys!.
Feb 12th at 2:43 am
Love it! IMO this feature is the running for award for best feature of the year.
Thanks so much.
Feb 12th at 4:32 am
Great info
Feb 12th at 5:48 am
Glad to know about faster pings
Feb 12th at 6:29 am
Awesome as always. Thanks.
Feb 12th at 7:22 am
This is really awesome.
Feb 12th at 9:41 am
That’s fantastic!! Thanks!
Feb 12th at 5:45 pm
Very nice, thanks a lot
Feb 12th at 5:53 pm
Thanks guys this is another reason why WordPress is second to none
Feb 12th at 6:10 pm
Great! I have shifted my main blog to .org but I am glad I have about 12 active sites here! In fact I am planning to write a post on how WP.com is better than the .org given the so many features and new roll outs!
Feb 12th at 8:51 pm
this is very usefull!! tx, Jw.
Feb 12th at 10:41 pm
Search engine response was good and now would be better? Just incredible!
Feb 13th at 6:57 am
How about updating Identi.ca and Jaiku? I’d love to see those two included.
Feb 13th at 1:41 pm
WordPress^_^
Feb 13th at 4:25 pm
Thank you wordpress… wonderful job
Feb 13th at 7:10 pm
my buddy was just bragging the other week that he figured out how to do this…ha! wordpress figured it out for me! thanks guys.
Feb 14th at 1:07 am
Props to everyone behind the scenes at WordPress who make this kind of thing possible…
Feb 14th at 7:20 am
Thanks so much WP!!! I wouldn’t use anything else!!
Feb 14th at 5:30 pm
Dear Word Press Valentine,
You are awesome!! Always finding a way to make our blogs better.
Feb 14th at 8:53 pm
GREAT WORK !
really … i saw my post in Google Blogsearch within 15 minutes
Thank you
Feb 14th at 9:50 pm
Wow! How cool is that?!
Feb 14th at 9:58 pm
Thanks guys – I was getting tired of doing it myself after every post! Maybe now some people will actually see my blog
Feb 15th at 3:47 pm
Thank you wordpress… wonderful job
Feb 15th at 3:50 pm
Thanks again word press. You are the best of the best of the best!
Feb 15th at 5:01 pm
That is really helpful! Thank you so much.
Feb 15th at 6:03 pm
WordPress ~ you are tremendous and your hard work does not go unnoticed. I love telling everyone I know that wordpress is the place to be . . .
Feb 15th at 11:25 pm
NIIIICCCEE.. was just trying out how to do that very thing! Thanks!
Feb 16th at 3:00 am
Sweet!
Feb 16th at 5:59 am
Excellent service!
I just searched Fox Gully on Google and came up number TWO!
Not bad when I put my first Fox Gully post up just four weeks ago.
Feb 17th at 5:15 am
Word! Very helpful!
Feb 17th at 8:20 am
How do I create my sitemap?
Feb 17th at 11:16 am
This is really great … luv it very much
Feb 17th at 9:07 pm
wordpress is the s**t!
Feb 17th at 11:14 pm
Thank you wordpress…
Feb 17th at 11:36 pm
thanks wordpress
Feb 18th at 1:19 am
Awesome new feature. Thanks WP!
Feb 18th at 7:52 am
Nice feature .. indeed !
Feb 18th at 7:28 pm
Automatic is always good. Thank you.
Feb 18th at 9:20 pm
Thank you so much for everything you do for us poor nontechies. Luv ya!
Feb 19th at 4:48 am
I have no words to express my gratitude.
Thanks very much WP! you are providing the most satisfactory service on the web.
Feb 19th at 5:25 am
Happy to know we are getting help with public exposure. Thanks WordPress
Feb 19th at 10:45 am
Thank you so much