When you ‘ping’, you notify blog indexing services that you have made an update on your blog.
Why is Pinging Important?
In order for your blogging efforts to be extremely effective, you will want to make sure the content on your blog is syndicated properly. There are many different ways to do this and pinging is one of them.
Ping-o-matic is used automatically by Wordpress when you install it, but there are others you should take advantage of. Use the following list to make sure your content is represented by these services.
- http://rpc.pingomatic.com
- http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
- http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
- http://ping.myblog.jp
- http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
- http://bblog.com/ping.php
How Do You Install These?
It’s really easy!! In Wordpress, click on ‘Settings’ in admin, then ‘Writing’, and paste them into ‘Update Services’ at the bottom of the page. Click ‘Save Changes’ and you are in business. Now Wordpress will notify these services automatically.
Dedicated to your success,
If you are familiar with pinging services you already know that there are plenty more pinging services available than the ones listed above. This list is researched and optimized for efficiency. Credit for the research goes to Instant Info Online. You can check out the research here.
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11. November 2009 at 12:11 pm
Thanks Nicole! I have a new blog up and I was not aware of the importance of pinging–I will make sure to add those sites to my settings!
12. November 2009 at 9:32 pm
Thanks for your kind words Ayanna. I’m glad you got something out of this article and I know your new blog will love it!
25. December 2009 at 8:00 am
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And you et an account on Twitter?
30. December 2009 at 2:16 pm
Yes, that’s fine if you want to quote my post.
All the best!
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