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.
February 11th, 2010 at 12:24 am
thanks wordpress
February 11th, 2010 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!!
February 11th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
We send updates to search engines on every change of content including post edits and new approved comments.
February 11th, 2010 at 9:13 am
great feature! WP seems to be having a lot of changes and improvements these past couple of days…
February 11th, 2010 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.
February 11th, 2010 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.
February 11th, 2010 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! /
February 11th, 2010 at 9:41 am
Really immediately after you publish how kool is that very nice update Niall!!
February 11th, 2010 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
February 11th, 2010 at 9:50 am
Cool! This is a very good news to me
Thanks, WordPress!
February 11th, 2010 at 9:56 am
This is really fantastic!
February 11th, 2010 at 9:58 am
Superb and awesome. Getting more and more convinced for having chosen wordpress.com against wordpress.org.
Thanks a lot.
February 11th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Tanx all
February 11th, 2010 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?
February 11th, 2010 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.
February 11th, 2010 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 ….
February 11th, 2010 at 10:38 am
Can Publicize also update facebook?
February 11th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
@Daphne: just Twitter and Yahoo for now.
February 11th, 2010 at 10:54 am
great! i like it. thank you
February 11th, 2010 at 11:03 am
amazing
keep it up
February 11th, 2010 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
February 11th, 2010 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.
February 11th, 2010 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.
February 11th, 2010 at 11:47 am
This is very cool – makes wordpress service so much better.
February 11th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Thank you.
February 11th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
good work dear…
February 11th, 2010 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.
February 11th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
That’s really cool! A great Big-Up for You!
February 11th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Yes! Very good for us. Thanks!
February 11th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
thankss. .
February 11th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Wonderful! Thanks WP!
February 11th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Well, many thanks!
February 11th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Very cool!
February 11th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
It sounds interesting! Keep Up!
February 11th, 2010 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.
February 11th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Nice one! This is excellent news WordPress Team
February 11th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Less to worry about more to love about WordPress. Thanks guys and gals.
February 11th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Yippee! My ramblings can now annoy a larger audience!!!
February 11th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Lumayan.
February 11th, 2010 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
February 11th, 2010 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?
February 11th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
FeedBurner pings are handled over XML-RPC through Ping-o-Mattic.
February 11th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Great as ever!
February 11th, 2010 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.
February 11th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Very, very nice! Great Job guys! Thank you very much!
February 11th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
wow! thats innovative guys. love u all!
February 11th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Thank U
February 11th, 2010 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 : )
February 11th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
that’s a really good news, we needed that so bad… I’m so glad thanks a lot
February 11th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
thanks….
February 11th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Wow, I like the sound of that, another great development!
February 11th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Thank you. Just one more reason why we are on WP
February 11th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Great! Thanks ! Does this apply to wordpress.org as well?
February 11th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
That rocks.
Next stop, GOOGLE STARDOM!
…..or not.
February 11th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Great! Thank you for all the hard work and efforts in helping us get our blogs noticed – much appreciated!
February 11th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Thanks for the effort!
February 11th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
Fantastic …..thank you
February 11th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
i love wordpress
February 11th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
This sounds good, thanks.
February 12th, 2010 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!.
February 12th, 2010 at 2:43 am
Love it! IMO this feature is the running for award for best feature of the year.
Thanks so much.
February 12th, 2010 at 4:32 am
Great info
February 12th, 2010 at 5:48 am
Glad to know about faster pings
February 12th, 2010 at 6:29 am
Awesome as always. Thanks.
February 12th, 2010 at 7:22 am
This is really awesome.
February 12th, 2010 at 9:41 am
That’s fantastic!! Thanks!
February 12th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Very nice, thanks a lot
February 12th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Thanks guys this is another reason why WordPress is second to none
February 12th, 2010 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!
February 12th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
this is very usefull!! tx, Jw.
February 12th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
Search engine response was good and now would be better? Just incredible!
February 13th, 2010 at 6:57 am
How about updating Identi.ca and Jaiku? I’d love to see those two included.
February 13th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
WordPress^_^
February 13th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Thank you wordpress… wonderful job
February 13th, 2010 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.
February 14th, 2010 at 1:07 am
Props to everyone behind the scenes at WordPress who make this kind of thing possible…
February 14th, 2010 at 7:20 am
Thanks so much WP!!! I wouldn’t use anything else!!
February 14th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Dear Word Press Valentine,
You are awesome!! Always finding a way to make our blogs better.
February 14th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
GREAT WORK !
really … i saw my post in Google Blogsearch within 15 minutes
Thank you
February 14th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Wow! How cool is that?!
February 14th, 2010 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
February 15th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Thank you wordpress… wonderful job
February 15th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Thanks again word press. You are the best of the best of the best!
February 15th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
That is really helpful! Thank you so much.
February 15th, 2010 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 . . .
February 15th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
NIIIICCCEE.. was just trying out how to do that very thing! Thanks!
February 16th, 2010 at 3:00 am
Sweet!
February 16th, 2010 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.
February 17th, 2010 at 5:15 am
Word! Very helpful!
February 17th, 2010 at 8:20 am
How do I create my sitemap?
February 17th, 2010 at 11:16 am
This is really great … luv it very much
February 17th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
wordpress is the s**t!
February 17th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Thank you wordpress…
February 17th, 2010 at 11:36 pm
thanks wordpress
February 18th, 2010 at 1:19 am
Awesome new feature. Thanks WP!
February 18th, 2010 at 7:52 am
Nice feature .. indeed !
February 18th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
Automatic is always good. Thank you.
February 18th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Thank you so much for everything you do for us poor nontechies. Luv ya!
February 19th, 2010 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.
February 19th, 2010 at 5:25 am
Happy to know we are getting help with public exposure. Thanks WordPress
February 19th, 2010 at 10:45 am
Thank you so much