Written on May 12th, 2009 at 9:49 am by Jendi

megaphoneSearch engines look for new content and, hopefully, will find your content.  You can help them find your content by telling them when you have a new post.  How do you announce your post?  You send a ping.

Very simply stated a ping is an electronic message to a pinging service that says, “Hey, I have new content!”  The big search engines [like Google] and blog directories [like Technorati] have pinging services to keep their content fresh.

You can use a service like Ping-o-matic to promote a blog post or article.  WordPress has a great feature that will do the work for you.  I’m all about somebody doing the work for me.


In your WordPress dashboard the last category down the left side is Settings.  Under Settings is a Writing Tab.  At the bottom of the Writing menu is Update Services.  In that box is where you put the address of the pinging services you want to notify.

Below is the list that I use. You are welcome to copy and paste it to your Update Services box. The more sites that announce my content means more people will see it. Then my goal is to convert that traffic to loyal readers.

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://1470.net/api/ping

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://bblog.com/ping.php

http://bitacoras.net/ping

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc

http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://coreblog.org/ping/

http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt

http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

http://ping.amagle.com/

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc

http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/

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://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/

http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2

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

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/

http://rpc.newsgator.com/

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

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

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

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.blogsnow.com/ping

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

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://rpc.blogcatalog.com/

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9 Responses to “Are You Pinging?”


  1. Debbie

    1 year ago

    Wow – that’s awesome info!!! I can’t wait to use it!

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  2. Wow, what a great list. I never thought of doing this. I’ve added all of yours to my self hosted wordpress site. I’m so glad that I get to watch you grow and hopefully I can grow with you and your tips.

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  3. Jamie

    1 year ago

    Excellent! I just set mine up with exactly the same list as yours!

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  4. Wow! I never even heard of this. I always wanted to know what ping was. I looked at my update service in wordpress and it already had pingomatic on there. I copied and added the other sites that you have. Thank you so much for this information.

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  5. Angela Green

    1 year ago

    Thanks for the info! I updated my WordPress account right away. I’m learning something new every day!

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  6. Pam

    1 year ago

    Lot’s of great stuff for WordPress users! What about us who use Blogger?

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  7. Danielle

    1 year ago

    This is great!! Thanks! I just did it. I hope this helps to get traffic!

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  8. Erin Hill

    1 year ago

    Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I just set this up.


  9. Carrie

    1 year ago

    Thanks A LOT!

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