RSS Feed Submission

If you have not done so already, it is recommended to read a prior blog post about sitemaps and search engine submission.

RSS feeds are a great and non-intrusive way to tell both people and search engines about the changing content of your website. If you’re using Wordpress, then a “Ping” is sent to the site ping-o-matic when new content is published. This is the default configuration. However, there are some who manually add a list of sites to ping in lieu of using Ping-O-Matic alone. There are others, like myself, who opt to do something different.

Using Feedburner

Let feedburner do the pinging for you. Since Google acquired Feedburner, using Feedburner to do all the pinging leg work makes the most sense. This can be done using the Feedburner Feedsmith plugin for wordpress.

Rather than having your standalone Wordpress site handle all of your RSS traffic, you can offload this task by giving it to feedburner. Feedburner can be configured to send Pings to Ping-O-Matic and more.

Sites that Feedburner Pings

1. Technorati
2. MyYahoo!
3. Bloglines
4. Newsgator
5. Google Blog Search Pinging Service
6. Ping-O-Matic

In addition, Feedburner can be configured to Ping 5 additional services.

1. Weblogs.com
2. Blogdigger
3. Syndic8
4. Alexa
5. Snap
6. Icerocket
7. Tailrank
8. Blog Buzz Machine
9. Feedblitz
10. Bloggarkivet
11. Blogblogs
12. Bloggrevyen
13. Feed Crier
14. Moreover

After installing the feedburner plugin, in Wordpress v2.5.1, changing the pinging service is easily done at the bottom of the Settings -> Writing page.

Change :

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

To :

http://ping.feedburner.com

You can also add your feedburner RSS feed to a couple of search engines. For more information on this, consult Tips for New Bloggers.