Pinging Web Pages that are not Blogs

I frequently get asked how it is possible to ping pages that are not blogs (ie cloaked pages). You ping your cloaked pages the same way you would ping a blog page. There are a number of ways you can do this though.

One way is to go to a pinging service like pingomatic.com or pingoat.com and just type in the URL of the cloaked page that you want to be pinged. Also, I know that Joseph Tierney has a free pinger tool that I used to use a few years ago. Joseph is the creator of BloggerGenerator, so you might be able to go over to his website and find the free download.

The final way to ping your cloaked pages is to use EWI. EWI has a built-in pinger. Based on the cloaked pages that EWI creates, EWI also configures a pinger that is hosted on your server as a PHP file. Then to ping several pinging services all you need to do is go to the URL of the pinger script (ie http://www.yourdomain.com/pinger.php) and a random cloaked page will be pinged. After running this script you will see almost immediately several search engine bots, including google and yahoo, start to spider your website. This pinger is a HUGE bonus with EWI and by itself is probably worth more than the monthly subscription price to EWI.