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What’s the easiest way to tell Google what’s new on your Joomla! site?

This week the site alledia.com had a competition of answers to a question “What’s the easiest way to tell Google what’s new on your Joomla! site?“. As a prize the ebook “Joomla SEO book” (the price $37) acted.

Funnily, but I became the winner of this competition. It is funnily, because I have responded, that a way which allows making it quickly, now is not realized in Joomla (even as extension).

My answer was such:

The right way is to use XML-RPC2 (as described by Zorro). BUT! Almost all weblog ping programs use “weblogUpdates.ping” method instead of “weblogUpdates.extendedPing.” “weblogUpdates.ping” says to Google only the fact that site was modified, and “weblogUpdates.extendedPing” says URL of the page to be checked for changes too (see http://www.google.com/help/blogsearch/pinging_API.html).

May be I’ll add such feature in the forthcoming release of Joomla! Weblog ping component (http://joomup.com/blog/category/joomla/extensions/ping/).

Actually, the support of “extendedPing” method are available in many CMS, but for some reason not in Joomla!.

For Joomla! I have found only two plugins (except for Weblog Ping ;-)) for weblogs pinging:

Unfortunately, I don’t know, that is JT Auto Ping Plugin (by the description that is necessary), but in any case there is no free plugin now which would carry out such simple task. I hope, I shall shortly correct this situation.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 at 12:40 pm and is filed under Weblog Ping, Joomla!, SEO. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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9 Responses to “What’s the easiest way to tell Google what’s new on your Joomla! site?”

  1. 1
    Physicist Says:
    September 20th, 2007 at 5:18 am

    I found one more plugin:
    Weblogpinger
    But it pings Weblogs.com, Blo.gs, Technorati, and Ping-o-matic only (and have GoogleAdsence on each component page ;-) ).

  2. 2
    Jhon Says:
    September 20th, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    great component, have been waiting for this for a long time

  3. 3
    yudhistira Says:
    September 23rd, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    i am using weblogpinger great component but ping to Blo.gs not working

  4. 4
    henry Says:
    October 1st, 2007 at 7:36 pm

    finally. someone can open to the door for SEo in Joomla in details,
    i thank god for this infoirmations
    hope i can reach a 1000/day mark soon with this tools. :)

  5. 5
    Igor Says:
    November 22nd, 2007 at 5:57 pm

    Question to make sure?  Every time I have a new content I need to go to backend a ping???

  6. 6
    Physicist Says:
    November 23rd, 2007 at 1:35 am

    Yes. But I now develop technology which will allow to avoid it (you can estimate it in work on an example of component Google AutoPing 1.0beta).

  7. 7
    joomlasiteowner.com Says:
    September 1st, 2008 at 9:55 pm

    What about joomler Pinger
    Joomler! Pinger

  8. 8
    daventurewebtech Says:
    November 17th, 2008 at 9:27 am

    I am using sh404 component at my site. And index.php is coming in between my urls can any one help me to remove it.
    http :// daventurewebtech.com /index.php/services.html i want to remove index.php and is should be look link this http :// daventurewebtech.com /services.html

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    Physicist Says:
    November 17th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    daventurewebtech, set in sh404 settings
    Rewriting mode: with .htaccess (mod_rewrite)

    PS. Really, I don't understand why you ask this here.

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