For those of you who own a blog, are you making sure to “ping” blog crawler sites when you publish new posts on your site? Pinging these services is like submitting a static website to a search engine- only better. When you submit a website to a search engine, you have to wait for weeks or months for the spiders to crawl your website, and then hope that they will list your site. When you ping these blog services, you are in effect notifying them that you have published new information and their spiders will automatically crawl your blog to search for this new information, publish it, and in turn will increase your website’s popularity. The crawling process is usually completed within a few hours as opposed as weeks or months. Pinging sites as these is something that every blog owner should implement when making posts. And best of all, it’s free!
If you use Wordpress for your blog, here are the instructions on how to set which services you automatically wish to ping when you write a new post:
Login to your Wordpress admin area. Go to Options > Writing > Update Services.
Enter a list of all the services you wish to notify when you publish a new post in your blog, and Wordpress will automatically ping these services for you.
Don’t know which services to notify? Have no fear! I have included a list of 70 sites you can ping to have their spiders automatically crawl your blog (courtesy of WikiPedia.org):
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping
http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs
http://ping.blogg.de
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://pingqueue.com/rpc
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://rpc.britblog.com
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080
http://rpc.newsgator.com
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping
http://www.blogoon.net/ping
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping
http://www.imblogs.net/ping
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
If you regularly post quality and original content on a well designed blog and ping some of these blog crawlers, you will without a doubt notice an increase in your blog’s popularity. So when you’re writing those posts, remember- don’t forget to ping!
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Article posted by: Neon on July 23rd, 2007
Thanks for this list! I know I only have about 30 or so right now.
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Are all of these working. i want to just cut and past the list into my WP blog. Hope it works.
Please let me know if it causes problems. Don’t want to be marked a spammer or anything.
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i hope i will get the good one from the 70 lists.
Thanks.
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Vision:
I took the list from wikipedia, so I am assuming they are working. The only concern I would have is that some services such as feedster may ping multiple services on your behalf, so just be sure the same services is not being pinged multiple times. It may just take a few minutes on your part to sort through the links and track who pings what to be sure everyone is only being pinged once.
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Hi John,
Please could you explain the comment made in you newly released article (ebook *lol*): “Many of the sites listed will automatically ping more than one service, so check to be sure you are not pinging the same service twice”.
How do you check that? Some of the services are in Chinese
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@Mikael:
Some services such as pingomatic will ping multiple services. If you are pinging the same service twice or even three times every time you make a post, they can eventually ban you or ignore your site.
If some of those ping services show up in Chineese, just ignore them as they will not help you out much anyway!
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Just because you took them from wikipedia does not mean they are all working J.Robinson. You should test them out yourself. Out of the 15 I tried only 1 was working…
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Then don’t use them Andy… I told you where the list was from. Go complain to Wikipedia.
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I need to get someone to make a plugin to ping all of these locations.
Would that be a good idea?
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I just realised it is in the Wordpress admin…(idiot)
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