Still haven’t jumped on the WordPress bandwagon?
Powering more than one hundred million websites and counting, WordPress has become the world’s most popular content management system (CMS). It’s fast, free, versatile, and can be optimized for higher search rankings.
Automatic Search Engine ‘Pinging’
By default, each time you publish a new post or page, WordPress will automatically ping the search engines. Why is this important? Well, unless Google, Bing and Yahoo know about your new posts and pages, they won’t be able to index them. Granted, search engines do a pretty good job at discovering new content on their own, but WordPress gives them a helping hand thanks to its automatic pinging feature. Whenever you publish new content to your website, WordPress sends a notification to pingomatic, which then spreads the message to the search engines.
Note: pingomatic is the default pinging service used by WordPress. However, you can add your own by accessing Settings > Writing > Update Services.