Link Pinger? Is this something I should know about?

[Clicksjim]

Just came across a post written back in 2011 that speaks about using a 'link pinger' to bring attention to the link and expedite the process of Google recognizing the link. Is this something that still works today? If so are there recommended tools?

[Brian-H]

RSS pinging links doesn't work enough to warrant any effort doing it. In fact I ran some tests last year on a site using different pinging services on a dozen sitse and they were added just as fast to google index without any pinging as with pinging.

That said, if your site is not crawled regularly the pinging service will let google know that there is new content on your site to visit. If it's a wordpress site then it already has this rss pinging by default and you can add more.

[Clicksjim]

Thanks for your reply Brian - good to know.