A Huge List of Places to Ping your Blog Posts
Now that I ‘ve been doing the blogging thing for a few weeks, I’ll let you know that there’s certainly more to blogging than, well, blogging. I mean, if you want people to actually read your blog, you’ve got to do a little work.
One of the things I’ve had to understand is pinging. If you’re unfamiliar, basically it’s just a term for letting blog sites (i.e. blog directories) know you’ve made another post. Once you ping them, they will come looking at your blog to see what’s new.
We’re using WordPress as our blogging software. It comes with the ability to ping Ping-o-Matic already built into the admin area. If you use WordPress, you’ll see in the admin area by going to “Options,” “Writing,” and then scroll down to find “Update Services.”
Ping-o-Matic is a great service; however, I have found it is not complete. There are plenty of other places to ping. These pinging services may be included with or in place of Ping-o-Matic in the Update Services box.
Now, there are plenty of resources for submitting your blog to blog directories and search engines. However, it’s not as easy to find exhaustive lists of places to ping. So, for those of you who blog, I thought I’d share with you my list of places I’ve found to ping. If you use Ping-o-Matic (at the top of the list below), you won’t need to add any of the URI’s listed right below it in the first grouping as Ping-o-Matic already takes care of those. Here’s the list I’m currently using:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
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.blogsnow.com/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://www.catapings.com/ping.php
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
Be forewarned, this long list slows down publishing a post to your blog substantially. Blog and Ping away!