Monday 6th February 2012

Ping!

by Dave on November 5, 2009

Howdy

Don’t know if you knew this but everytime you publish a Blog post, your blog sends a ‘Ping’, which is like an alert, to a place called  http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ Pingomatic then sends out an alert to notify other websites that your site has been updated. So what if you could automatically alert more sites than just Pingomatic, which in turn would notify even more websites about your update. ..would be cool eh?

Well, its quite easy to do, in 3 easy steps, as I found out by looking around Google.

What you do is…

1) Copy this list, by highlighting it with your mouse.

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

2) Goto Settings -> Writing

3) Scroll down a bit to ‘Update Services’. After you see the PingOmatic address, press return then paste the list that you’ve copied.

TADA!

Now everytime you publish a post, all these websites will notify other websites that your site has been updated.

Enjoy

Ciao for now :)

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Sue November 10, 2009 at 1:16 am

Hi Dave
The only problem with this is that if you are like me you publish a post, and then decide you have forgotten to put something in like a link or category, or maybe you want to add more tags. When you update your post WordPress automatically pings your post again. Too many pings of the same post is not good.

So to get around this there is a plug in called MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. This overrides WordPress auto ping, and only pings each post once. So you can update your post as many times as you like but only ping once. There is a log too so you can check how many pings your posts have had and where they have been pinged too.

Maybe this helps – hope so
Regards
Sue

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