A Good Ping List
Pinging services come and go. A couple years ago, I would add dozens of ping sites to my blogs and would see some good results. Using the ping logs reported in my copy of the MaxBlogPress ping optimizer, I’ve now whittled the list down to the following which do not report errors:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2
For the Non-Technical People
If you have absolutely no idea what I am talking about, “pinging” basically refers to your blog “telling” announcement services that it has just been updated. This in turn invites search engines to index your blog. Because of their pinging capabilities, many webmasters find that having a blog included on their sites or elsewhere helps deliver Internet traffic.
When you install WordPress, the software automatically includes http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ in its ping list. To add additional pinging services, you do the following:
- Go to your administrative dashboard and click “settings” (the link is in the upper right hand corner of the page).
- Click the link that reads “Writing.”
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you’ll see a section called “Update Settings.”
- You can insert additional ping services in the “Update Settings” form box.
Pinging works great — but you might be spamming the ping services without realizing it. That’s why the plugin from MaxBlogPress is so useful. Visit MaxBlogPress for more information.
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