Sitemap pings for instant search updates
WordPress.com now sends sitemap pings to Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask immediately after you publish or delete a page or post.
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 11, 2010
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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!!
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We send updates to search engines on every change of content including post edits and new approved comments.
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great feature! WP seems to be having a lot of changes and improvements these past couple of days… 😀
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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.
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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.
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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! /
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Really immediately after you publish how kool is that very nice update Niall!!
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This is good news for all of us. WordPress.com is working hard to make our life easy. Thank You WordPress 🙂
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Cool! This is a very good news to me 🙂 Thanks, WordPress!
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This is really fantastic!
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Superb and awesome. Getting more and more convinced for having chosen wordpress.com against wordpress.org.
Thanks a lot.
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Tanx all
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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?
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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.
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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 ….
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Can Publicize also update facebook?
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@Daphne: just Twitter and Yahoo for now.
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great! i like it. thank you 🙂
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amazing 🙂 keep it up
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I’m glad you let us know, as I was going to my webmaster accounts and manually re-submitting the sitemaps…
Cheers
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Registering for webmaster accounts on major search engines always helps. You should see your ping status and indexing completeness reported in your webmaster console.
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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.
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This is very cool – makes wordpress service so much better.
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Thank you.
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good work dear…
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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.
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That’s really cool! A great Big-Up for You! 🙂
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Yes! Very good for us. Thanks!
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thankss. .
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Wonderful! Thanks WP!
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Well, many thanks!
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Very cool!
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It sounds interesting! Keep Up!
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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.
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Nice one! This is excellent news WordPress Team
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Less to worry about more to love about WordPress. Thanks guys and gals.
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Yippee! My ramblings can now annoy a larger audience!!!
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Lumayan.
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ah! nice. Now I do not have to tell google when i remove a tag before google blames me for 404 pages
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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?
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FeedBurner pings are handled over XML-RPC through Ping-o-Mattic.
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Great as ever!
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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.
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Very, very nice! Great Job guys! Thank you very much! 😀
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wow! thats innovative guys. love u all!
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Thank U
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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 : )
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that’s a really good news, we needed that so bad… I’m so glad thanks a lot
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thanks….
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Wow, I like the sound of that, another great development!
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Thank you. Just one more reason why we are on WP 😉
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Great! Thanks ! Does this apply to wordpress.org as well?
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That rocks.
Next stop, GOOGLE STARDOM!
…..or not.
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Great! Thank you for all the hard work and efforts in helping us get our blogs noticed – much appreciated!
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Thanks for the effort!
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Fantastic …..thank you
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i love wordpress
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This sounds good, thanks.
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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!.
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Love it! IMO this feature is the running for award for best feature of the year. 😉
Thanks so much.
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Great info
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Glad to know about faster pings
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Awesome as always. Thanks.
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This is really awesome.
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That’s fantastic!! Thanks!
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Very nice, thanks a lot
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Thanks guys this is another reason why WordPress is second to none
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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!
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this is very usefull!! tx, Jw.
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Search engine response was good and now would be better? Just incredible! 😉
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How about updating Identi.ca and Jaiku? I’d love to see those two included.
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WordPress^_^
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Thank you wordpress… wonderful job
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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.
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Props to everyone behind the scenes at WordPress who make this kind of thing possible…
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Thanks so much WP!!! I wouldn’t use anything else!!
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Dear Word Press Valentine,
You are awesome!! Always finding a way to make our blogs better.
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GREAT WORK !
really … i saw my post in Google Blogsearch within 15 minutes
Thank you 🙂
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Wow! How cool is that?!
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Thanks guys – I was getting tired of doing it myself after every post! Maybe now some people will actually see my blog 🙂
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Thank you wordpress… wonderful job
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Thanks again word press. You are the best of the best of the best!
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That is really helpful! Thank you so much.
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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 . . .
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NIIIICCCEE.. was just trying out how to do that very thing! Thanks!
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Sweet!
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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.
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Word! Very helpful!
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How do I create my sitemap?
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This is really great … luv it very much
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wordpress is the s**t!
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Thank you wordpress…
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thanks wordpress
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Awesome new feature. Thanks WP!
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Nice feature .. indeed !
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Automatic is always good. Thank you.
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Thank you so much for everything you do for us poor nontechies. Luv ya!
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I have no words to express my gratitude.
Thanks very much WP! you are providing the most satisfactory service on the web.
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Happy to know we are getting help with public exposure. Thanks WordPress
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Thank you so much
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