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:
- commercial JT Auto Ping Plugin
- and free J!Ping (still yesterday it was on extensions.joomla.org) which made ping only to rpc.technorati.com.
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.
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September 20th, 2007 at 5:18 am
I found one more plugin:
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Weblogpinger
But it pings Weblogs.com, Blo.gs, Technorati, and Ping-o-matic only (and have GoogleAdsence on each component page
September 20th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
great component, have been waiting for this for a long time
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:47 pm
i am using weblogpinger great component but ping to Blo.gs not working
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.
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???
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).
September 1st, 2008 at 9:55 pm
What about joomler Pinger
Joomler! Pinger
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
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.
December 8th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
I always thought having an XML sitemap was more than enough. Using Google Webmaster Tools, you can specify the address of your sitemap file. Thus, new content is indexed every time your site is crawled.