Search Engines || Information Architecture

We all have learned by now that having the ability to ping is doing miracles for our sites. So having a ping feature for a pligg based website is a must. Due to the fact that this is not a built in feature, we have the following options:

Buy a custom module. For this there is Plingger which is very cheap, only 10USD. This ping by default 13 engines and more can be added.  If you are in a hurry this is for you.

If you are not willing to invest in such a module there is another option for you: Feedburner. Here are the steps that you need to make:

1. Go to Feedburner and burn a feed for each of your sections.
2. For each feed, go to the “Publicize” tab and activate the “Pingshot” service.
3. Check the  Google Blog Search Engine and Ping-O-Matic and than add 3 more search engines of your choice

If you want to deeply integrate your Pligg based website with feedburner, here is a tutorial on how to do it. This will allow you to get statistics for your RSS feeds.