I’ve exclaimed my great satisfaction to friends recently as I’ve written blog posts on just how quickly they seem to appear in the Google indexes. And by “quick”, I mean almost instantly. Click the “Publish” button in WordPress and BLAMMMMMMO! Instant street cred. I wondered to myself, after it happened the first few times, “Self? How did that happen?”

It didn’t take very long to track down the “Update Services” section in the WordPress Admin (available at the bottom of the “Settings > Writing” page). Looks a bit like this:

Essentially, when a user hits “Publish”, an XML-RPC ping is sent to the services listed in the textarea above. There are dozens of these services with a lot of overlap, but just adding a few to this can help you spread the glory of your most recent post quickly and effortlessly.

What does this all mean to you? Traffic (and attention), like right now.

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