It seemed at first that Ping Goat, the blog pinging service, was down, which would be a real shame.
But it isn't really.
I think they basically got a little fed up with users simply copying and pasting the 'very long' URL, saving this as a bookmark and then once a week giving it a click, without paying any attention to their site - they do have tools!
Therefore you can fortunately still use Ping Goat to ping all your familiar sites: Technorati, Icerocket, weblogs &c. All you need to do is go to:
http://pingoat.net/
Notice it's a .net and not .com site now.
Simply fill in your blog details like you did first time you used this excellent pinging service and hey-presto your blogs just been pinged.
Thursday 31 December 2009
Tuesday 1 December 2009
Fetch as Googlebot - Not Just a Gimmick
When I first seen the 'labs' button and 'Fetch as Googlebot' in Webmaster tools, I thought to myself what good is this? I can render pages in SERPs if I need to see if they're working or not - or can I?
By entering the page you want to check and clicking 'Fetch', if your page is available on the net Google will return a green tick and 'success'.
![fetch as googlebot](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWlhYhItq6MEpArw9j8sKh7LvLyMsKoxKMEhItfCbVYoxzckzA0aO7xir2DRsxwEEXWLj0ciEyxT-gcPxvOJJl4SQmWKgp7G4QT3uwITReTehF9YvtOF4qcZdgU5Yj8SwRVzx3YjzZ3RQq/s400/Google.jpg)
But that's not all - there may be something hidden.
By clicking on the 'success', you get a full blown view of exactly what the Googlebot sees when he visits your page.
![fetch as googlebot code](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dm5p7GrxhUIv1EE33CxRaOAD5grJJaqy_MVWQXX3XQtUCu7Rt9ffKgsSZnYNTXSSrbCM4ZFNBJkNC0X7-SZ65qpCmU0Vkj7Kaqr6eELxa7yOEa90gnbZXLUYI_uzZdiA8VTah6dpZtM2/s400/hell3.jpg)
Not very interesting if there's nothing to hide, but if something somehow got into your code, which you didn't intentionally put there, well, it could just save you, not only a headache, but also a little time in Google jail.
By entering the page you want to check and clicking 'Fetch', if your page is available on the net Google will return a green tick and 'success'.
![fetch as googlebot](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWlhYhItq6MEpArw9j8sKh7LvLyMsKoxKMEhItfCbVYoxzckzA0aO7xir2DRsxwEEXWLj0ciEyxT-gcPxvOJJl4SQmWKgp7G4QT3uwITReTehF9YvtOF4qcZdgU5Yj8SwRVzx3YjzZ3RQq/s400/Google.jpg)
But that's not all - there may be something hidden.
By clicking on the 'success', you get a full blown view of exactly what the Googlebot sees when he visits your page.
![fetch as googlebot code](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dm5p7GrxhUIv1EE33CxRaOAD5grJJaqy_MVWQXX3XQtUCu7Rt9ffKgsSZnYNTXSSrbCM4ZFNBJkNC0X7-SZ65qpCmU0Vkj7Kaqr6eELxa7yOEa90gnbZXLUYI_uzZdiA8VTah6dpZtM2/s400/hell3.jpg)
Not very interesting if there's nothing to hide, but if something somehow got into your code, which you didn't intentionally put there, well, it could just save you, not only a headache, but also a little time in Google jail.
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