Show Your Website/Forum to Search Engines.

[Afro]

The best part of website is that it is known by both humans and search engines. If these two doesn't see or know your website,
then you don't have a website. In this Article, I will show you how to pass the message (Your website contents) across the internet.
I have list of websites that we are going to analyze how they work and how they will help you to spread the message across the world. I have about 40 websites you can post your contents without Violating their TOS.
The good news is that you can send your topics to all this websites at once through ping.fm.

Let me introduce ping.fm first and how it works.

Ping.fm is a free social networking and micro-blogging web service that enables users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously.
Sounds good enough ? The good news is that so many websites allows ping.fm to post to them. That will just allow you to post to all those websites in just a click.

To start, go to the Ping.fm website and register your free account.
After your registration, Click on the Dashboard at the top and look for Add More Networks. A list of all the Social networks you ever heard of will be presented to you. That includes the mighty Facebook Wall, Myspace, Hi5, Photobucket,  Google Buzz, Facebook Pages, LinkedIn, Delicious and many many more..

I personally use ping fem with conduit. Conduit is a toolbar provider that allows website owners to create custom tollbars.
Example of conduit toolbar is Toolbar. You can create your own toolbar by following the link. After that, go to the Ping.fm page and You will see a little icon [Image below]. Click on the Icon to add ping.fm add-on to your custom toolbar.


The Red arrow is the toolbar Add-on.
The green stars is where you add your url to ping if you don't want to use the toolbar.

I will analyze these websites one by one and show you how to use them with the ping.fm.

Each underlined link here is clickable and will lead you to the website.

1 - Facebook : Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004 and operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc..  Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Register an account with facebook if you don't already have one. Then go to your account on ping.fm and click on Add Networks. You will then be prompted to add your facebook Login details. Do that. There is a drop down men on the right that asks if you would want your messages to be sent to Blogs, micro-blogs or Statuses. Just leave it on default. That's it. You are good to go.

That is pretty much how you are going to add other networks.
What i am going to do below is to list the websites you can use with ping.fm and you are good to go.

2 - Twitter : Twitter is a social networking and microblogging  service that enables its users to send and read other user messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile  page. Create an account with twitter sync it with ping.fm.

3 - Facebook Page : A Facebook Page, sometimes referred to as a Fan Page, is a single page that you can create for anything you want: a particular subject you like: a celebrity, a business profile, whatever your heart desires

4 - Google Buzz : Google Buzz is a social networking and messaging tool from Google, designed to integrate into the company's web-based email program, Gmail. Users can share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in "conversations" and visible in the user's inbox. You need to have a Gmail account before you can create a Google buzz account.

5 - Myspace : MySpace is a social networking website. It also has the possibility to upload music,photos and receive comments from other users

6 - Ning : Ning is an online platform for people to create their own social networks.

7 - Gtalk Status : Gtalk is an Instant messenger platform from Google. It serves the same purpose as the Yahoo messenger but it uses Gmail.

8 - AIM Status : AIM is the instant messenger from AOL.

9 - : is a business-oriented social networking site, it is mainly used for professional networking. The site is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

9 - Tumblr : Tumblr is a blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, video, links, quotes, and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users are able to "follow" other users and see their posts together on their dashboard. Users can "like" or "reblog" posts from other blogs on the site.

10 - Identi.ca is an open source social networking and micro-blogging service. Based on StatusNet, a micro-blogging software package built on the OpenMicroBlogging specification, Identi.ca allows users to send text updates (known as "notices") up to 140 characters long

11 - brightkite : Brightkite is a location-based social networking website that is available on any mobile device. Users "check in" at places by using text messaging or one of the mobile applications and they can see who is nearby and who has been there before.

12 - Plurk : Plurk is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as plurks) through short messages or links, which can be up to 140 text characters in length

13 - Friendfeed : FriendFeed is a real-time feed aggregator that consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS/ Atom feed.

14 - Jaiku : Jaiku-a social networking, micro-blogging and life streaming service.As a special feature,Jaiku offers its users the possibility to post directly on their webpage from their cell-phones,using a software compatible with Nokia S60 series.

15 - Blogger : Blogger is a blog storage service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It is funded by on-screen ads. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003.The service itself is located at.

16 - Plaxo Pulse : Plaxo is an online address book and social networking service founded by Napster co-founder Sean Parker, Minh Nguyen and two Stanford engineering students, Todd Masonis and Cameron Ring. The company was named by David Weekly.

17 - Bebo : Bebo, an acronym for "Blog early, blog often", is a social networking website, founded in January 2005

18 - Hi5 : Hi5 is a social networking website. The company was founded in 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi who is also the current CEO. As of January 2009, Hi5 claims to have over 60 million active members.

19 - Xanga : Xanga is a website that hosts weblogs, photoblogs, and social networking profiles. It is operated by Xanga.com, Inc., based in New York City.

20 - Custom Url : You can create your own Custom url too. Click on the link to Check that out.

21 - Delicious : Delicious (formerly del.icio.us, pronounced "delicious") is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. .

For more, Visit Show your site to Search Engines

I will end the list here and add more when i have more time. I hope you enjoy my list.
-  Afro

[InfoStrides]

Thanks for this vital information Afro. I just developed a mod that users can easily click on beside forum topic and submit to all social networks on ping.fm.

It has to be noted that user must register on ping.fm and connect choice social networks before this can work. I have it installed on my forums and tested it. It really works fine.

Although, the mod is still awaiting approval but can be explored here: PingThis_SMF V.1.0. Once approved, further development will be done.

Pending the approval from SMF team, we can discuss posibble improvement on the mods this link link: PingThis_SMF v.1.0 - Simultaneously Update Social Networks with a Click.

Afro, do you know any application to auto-post to ping.fm?

[Afro]

Good development. I am sure it will be approved if it meets the mod requirements.
It will be very useful indeed.
Meanwhile, I think it will conflict with Facebook Like Mod and Facebook Integration mod.
They both uses the topic title bar to display their Links.
People can always manually edit the display.template.php file to display that elsewhere but a lot of people dont know how to edit files.
It will be good if you give guidelines on how to edit the display.template.php file to display the "Ping This" link inside the post or even below the profile info.

Very good mod indeed. I am sure i will use it.

You can add my post above about ping.fm in your original mod page if you want. I wrote it myself, so no copyright issue.
I can give you the original post with bbc codes and links to the mentioned social networks , so that you dont have to create them again.

- Few more suggestions will be to also use image to replace the link.
- add the link to messegeindextemplate to display at the top or bottom of lists of topics, so that someone can always ping many topic titles at once,, not just a topic.

[InfoStrides]

Thank you for your comments and further insights into the Mod. Your suggestions would be considered in the next version. I will get in touch for further supports if necessary.

On your post above, please send it to me or you can post it on The InfoStrides, under WebMasters' board or post created for PingThis_SMF.

Thank you.

[InfoStrides]

My mod on socialisation, PingThis_SMF has been approved yesterday. Thanks to SMF Team.

Explore the mod and give your feedback on the "Support and Comments on the Mod" or PingThis SMF Mod Support for improvement that will serve us better.

[InfoStrides]

I have an instruction already on how to auto-post to or auto-update your ping.fm account. Check the link below for more information.

How to Auto-Post to ping.fm from Your Forum/Website