Mass pinging
by Sapphire (June 22, 2005)
I got a brilliant idea a while back: go ahead and write, say, 10 articles for this blog at a time, then publish them with future dates so they post over time instead of all at once. Get a week’s worth of work done in one sitting, have it out of the way. The only problem was, when you do that, it pings the server as you publish the article… not on the day the article posts.
I may be mistaken, but I think it’s hurting my traffic. I think having the pings happen on a regular, daily or near daily basis, keeps a steady flow of traffic coming. What I’m noticing is: big traffic on the days I ping a few future articles, and a slow, steady drop-off the rest of the week.
So, there’s a solution: write them all at once, but save them as drafts. Then go in every day and publish one, so it pings then. It does require at least checking in here and clicking a few times every day, but the hard work’s still being done in one sitting, at my convenience.
Or I suppose I could ping manually every now and then over at Ping-O-Matic. That’s another option, but I think I like the one that forces me to check in here daily, so I can have a quick look-see to make sure everything’s in good order.
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August 22nd, 2006 at 10:45 pm
What a good idea. Have it all done in one sitting and focus on other things through the week… and I do believe saving it as a draft won’t ping any of the systems.
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:46 pm
It definitely won’t on WordPress or Serendipity - those are the ones I’m familiar with.