Ping

The search engines send their spider, or bot, to your site on a regular
basis. They schedule their visits based on the size of your website and
how often it appears to be updated. However, if you want to send a
message to them letting them know you have updated your site, then
you can do something called “pinging.” Pinging, in this context, is
simply sending a code string to the search engines which says “hey
come look at my site again, it’s updated, and I want it indexed again.”


All you have to do to ping the search engines is to go to a ping
website, enter the URL of your blog, check the boxes of where you
want to ping (generally do all of them) and then click “Ping.” It really
is that simple and quick. The two most popular ping websites are
www.ping-o-matic.com and www.pingoat.com.

It is generally advisable that you ping each time you update your blog,
or each week at least. This makes sure your site is getting seen by
the search engines and that it is being indexed as fast as possible.