I feel kinda bad about not keeping this site updated as much as I should lately, but I’ve been really busy with the newest projects. Seriously folks, I really do plan to put more time into bluehatseo I just need to get some of the stuff on my desk done first.
In the mean time, since you all have been so loyal and visiting way more often than I actually update. I’ll keep ya busy with a small wordpress hack I’ve developed.
What Is It?
It’s technically not a mod or addon, its just a small template hack. It causes every person that reads one of your posts to automatically ping that post to all the most popular ping services through Pingomatic. This actually saves you a lot of time and creates a nice little circle of promotion. The more visitors your wordpress blog gets the more it gets spread. It also is 100% safe from proxies and possibilities of getting banned from ping services, since every ping comes from the visitor not from your server. I really do hate sending out blogs n’ pings through the server. Infact I avoid it at all costs.
How Do I Install It?
Login to your wordpress account
Click on the Presentation tab
Click on the Theme Editor
Edit the Single Post(singlepost.php)
Scroll through the code till you find
<?php require(’post.php’); ?>
Right below it put this snipplet of code in
pinghack.txt
And your done!
I have plans in the future of writing a Blue Hat Technique for using this same principle to boost the power of blog networks through “interpinging.” This will in a sense utilize the blogs that get more traffic to boost the blogs that get less traffic, which in return boost the rest of the blogs. Causing an upward spiral in a closed blog network. If anyone has a unique idea for this and would like to get featured on Blue Hat SEO.com by actually writing the Blue Hat Technique you are welcome to. I’ll be happy to post it up.
If you’d like to see one of the strange effects of this trick click here.
What is the point of multiple pings by others? Does it really matter if the pinged sites receive 1 or 100 pings? Does the site doing the pinging appear on some list of latest updates or higher up on a list of popular sites?
I also noticed that the iframe code sets the current page as the home page for Pingomatic rather than the true blog home page. Do you feel there’s value in this too?
Inquiring minds want to know
Hi, I am trying to apply this hack, but in all the themes I have downloaded I cannot find this “”. Did this apply to wordpress 1.5 templates? It would be cool if you could point me in the right direction to getting this to work with the latest templates.
Thanks
Mike
hmm, it seems the code has been stripped out of the above. its the php require posts dot php that was meant to show between the “”
thanks
I modified this to be use with blogger put it somewhere after the :
&blogurl=&rssurl=&chk_weblogscom=on&chk_blogs=on&chk_technorati=on&chk_feedburner=on&chk_syndic8=on&chk_newsgator=on&chk_feedster=on&chk_myyahoo=on&chk_pubsubcom=on&chk_blogdigger=on&chk_blogrolling=on&chk_blogstreet=on&chk_moreover=on&chk_weblogalot=on&chk_icerocket=on&chk_audioweblogs=on&chk_rubhub=on&chk_geourl=on&chk_a2b=on&chk_blogshares=on” border=”0″ width=”1″ height=”1″>
Thank You
Is this technique actual at this moment or do you get banned now for this?
what is the difference between pinging from your server to pinging as user? Is there a Ip-Filter of the pinger, cause Domain and Server are still the same.
I looked in my Cutline Theme template and can find the line of code you referenced. I guess yoru post doesn’t apply to the last couple versions of WordPress??
Hi Eli,
I can’t for the life of me find that line to place the ping hack under.
Eli or anyone, is there somewhere else I can put it?
Hi,
Thank you, It’s very useful for me
Does your hack work with Typepad?
I don’t understand. How does pinging more = more traffic?
jagshemash!
Neil Strauss
Pinging improves trafic because blog is more up to date in blog search engines.
I cant seem to find in my template. ca i just add the iframe somewhere at the bottom of single post template?
From what I have read, the newer versions of WP do not use the
tag. ANyone know how to update this for newer versions?
Pinging your site once or twice a day is enough. This technique is an over kill
Thank you, It’s useful information
This will no longer work with 2.5
i thik you can just add the ifram anywhere if i’m not correct as the newer versions do not support the tag