Wordpress Ping Update Services
Fairly frequently, I will see someone offer a tip to another member here about blog writing or marketing their blog. They mention pinging websites when you make a new post, but I don't usually see them give much more information than that. So, I thought I would put together a brief ping guide and invite others to list the update services that they use on their Wordpress blogs.
When you ping a website about a new blog post, you are actually sending that website a notification in XML-RPC format that lets them know you have created or updated a post. These websites will then include your post in their index. This can lead to targeted traffic to your blog and fast indexing of your new posts in search engines. The people that browse ping websites will be able to see your most recent blog posts.
The Wordpress software actually includes an easy way to ping these websites. In the admin area of your Wordpress blog, find 'Settings' in the left-hand menu and then click the 'Writing' sub-menu. On the writing page, you will see a section at the very bottom called 'Update Services'. Simply type your list of websites here that you want to ping your blog updates to. These website address should be entered one per line (or you can just copy and past a list of them into the box). Be sure to 'Save Changes' once you have entered your list. Once you are done, these websites will be "pinged" whenever you write a new blog post or update an existing one.
I would love to hear some input from others out there that use pinging a lot. What update services do you use? Do you think you can reach a point where you are using too many and it may be considered spam?
Here is the current list of update services that I use on most of my Wordpress blogs:
When you ping a website about a new blog post, you are actually sending that website a notification in XML-RPC format that lets them know you have created or updated a post. These websites will then include your post in their index. This can lead to targeted traffic to your blog and fast indexing of your new posts in search engines. The people that browse ping websites will be able to see your most recent blog posts.
The Wordpress software actually includes an easy way to ping these websites. In the admin area of your Wordpress blog, find 'Settings' in the left-hand menu and then click the 'Writing' sub-menu. On the writing page, you will see a section at the very bottom called 'Update Services'. Simply type your list of websites here that you want to ping your blog updates to. These website address should be entered one per line (or you can just copy and past a list of them into the box). Be sure to 'Save Changes' once you have entered your list. Once you are done, these websites will be "pinged" whenever you write a new blog post or update an existing one.
I would love to hear some input from others out there that use pinging a lot. What update services do you use? Do you think you can reach a point where you are using too many and it may be considered spam?
Here is the current list of update services that I use on most of my Wordpress blogs:
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http://api.feedster.com/ping http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 http://bblog.com/ping.php http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://geourl.org/ping http://ipings.com http://ping.feedburner.com http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/ http://ping.blo.gs/ http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 http://topicexchange.com/RPC2 http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2 http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php http://www.blogsnow.com/ping http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php http://www.pingerati.net http://www.pingmyblog.com http://www.feedsubmitter.com http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
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