Blue-Hat SEO, RPC Ping, and Metrics
"Pluck your magic twanger, Froggy!" -- Andy Devine Recently I started playing with some ideas on using RPC Ping endpoints to help promote one of my websites, ittyUrl.net . For those who aren't familiar, it is customary to ping RPC servers with the title and url of a new blog post. Most Blog hosting software already has this built in. But - it also works for websites with articles, forum posts, or that display custom search results, like mine does. The idea is that these RPC servers will be prompted to go out and request your post and they'll index it, and many sites (some not so noble) will pick up the links and essentially you have gotten yourself some free backlinks (of course, backlinks with a low or no PageRank can actually do you harm from an SEO perf standpoint, but that's a separate issue). One example site that more or less picks up everything for you is weblogs.com . They have a "rolling" display of all the ping updates they've gotten, and ...