Growing my Community - Feature Request?

One of the features that Wordpress exposes is the ability to ping update services when new content is added to a site or when content is updated.

The default service is ping-o-matic, but the admin UI enables publishers to select other services. IIRC, Ning has a similar capability, I just can't remember where in the admin UI it's buried.

Is there any similar service in Jamroom? I did a search on SEO in the marketplace (both of them) and came up with nothing.

My community is very narrowly focused. It gets hundreds of thousands of page views per month and is updated (according to a daily Feedblitz notification) an average of at least 8-10x per day. These two things, over the course of six+ years, means that new adds to the site show up in search results as quickly as 4-8 hours and that the site shows up in the top 20 results for non-generic searches, not for " chocolate " or on keywords that are heavily paid for.

I have paid not a single cent for SEO and Ning's SEO optimization tools at the level I was paying for a pretty thin. I owe pretty much everything to the constant pinging off of the update server saying "I'm here and something new and different was just added ... " Of course, I also plan to implement https:// as soon as I can 'cause I know Google likes that.
updated by @claygordon: 02/15/15 02:22:11PM

Yup, feature request. Currently the sitemap is the way that those who want to be notified of new stuff get notified of new stuff.

"Sitemap Generator"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/modules/741/sitemap-generator

Module location:
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/networkmarket/93/xml-sitemap-generator

Or look in your MARKEPLACE tab on your site for "XML Sitemap Generator" then submit that to google webmaster tools:
http://webmaster.google.com/

Loaded as a feature request into our todo list. Thanks.

Can you clarify how this works for us - what exactly is an "update service"? I'll do some searches on ping-o-matic and see what it does, but clarification on what services it reaches out to would be great.

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Just was reading this:

http://htwp2.com/to-ping-or-not-to-ping/

so it looks mainly like a tool to update blog search engines that you have new content.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

@Brian -

I have already uploaded the XML sitemap generator and will submit it to Google when I go live.

There's a lot to learn from the HTWP post about how a well-behaved service should run. For example, when in developer mode you could turn it off. But not pinging when updating a post - because some people are obsessive over formatting and/or fixing typos - is also a very good idea.

It's a virtuous cycle. Every mention you get potentially drives traffic. If you're using google analytics I can't help but think that part of the secret sauce of google's algorithms - using that data to inform their ranking.

Looking at this it looks like the Ping-o-Matic is a free service, so a small module that "submits" your site URL to Ping-o-Matic say an hour AFTER the last change would not be hard.

We have a to do on this so we will for sure check it out when we get to it.

Hope this helps!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

@Brian -

It's not a top priority - especially not compared with the other things I have been asking for my ToDo list!