The problem is that combined with the pings, once a search engine enters a WordPress-driven site, and if the Theme is designed well, it crawls through easily, especially with a well defined navigation menu. How many posts were gathered due to the submission of the site or the site categories is hard to tell.

Still, my category pages are listed with Google. Put in “web wise site:http://lorelle.wordpress.com” in the Google Search and my Web Wise category should be at the top of the list.

Are your category pages listed with Google or other search engines? Check and see. If not, or if you find a certain category of posts not listed, then give it a try.

Pings are great. Unfortunately, pings don’t cover everything. WordPress works only with Ping-o-matic. While it sends pings to many major search engines and directories, it doesn’t cover “everything”. It certainly doesn’t cover international search engines and directories, if you are interested in that market.

I’ve had great success with Selfpromotion.com in reaching a much wider audience, especially international, than I do just sticking with the “big guys”. My hits from non-English traditional countries grew tremendously.

You don’t have to do anything, as I said in the article, but if you want wider coverage, do some investigating to see what your coverage really is in the major search engines, submit single or category links to expand your coverage, and then check out the smaller folks. Spread yourself around.

I am interested how your submission of categories has worked out? Has that worked for you?