How Do I Ping My Blog

Posted at September 15, 2010

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One of the reasons wordpress blogs are so popular with the search engines is the fact that you can ping servers all across the web to let them know that you have updated your blog. This results in new pages being indexed by the search engines much faster – and if you did your homework (a.k.a. keyword research) – in quicker rankings in the search engines.

Which of course brings up the question: “How Do I Ping My Blog?”

You can ping your blog two different ways. You can do it manually, or you can utilize the automatic pinging tools that comes with most blogging software. Let’s take a quick look at each method.

Manual Pinging:

Let’s start with manual pinging. This simply means that after you’ve written your new blog post you go out to one of the pinging websites and manually enter your blog url and ping various servers.

One of my favorite sites to do this on is Ping-O-Matic. It’s quick and easy to use as well as quite effective. When you get to the site, all you need to enter is the name of your blog  (TIP – use your main keyword in the name), your site url as well as your feed url. Here’s what the filled out form looks like:

Below that you will find a list of services to ping. I recommend you leave it at the default settings. Click on “Send Pings” and you’re done.

Other sites you may want to consider to ping your blog manually are:

• Auto Pinger
• Feed Ping
• Feed Shark
• Pingler

Doing this manually each time you blog can become a bit tedious though and it’s easy to forget. That’s why I recommend you automate the process if possible.

Automatic Pinging:

Another option (and the easier one if you ask me), is to set up automatic pinging on your blog. Most blogging platforms allow you to set up a ping list or at the very least check an option that makes sure at least one of the pinging sites is notified anytime you make a new post.

In a wordpress blog it is very easy to set up an extensive ping list which is something I highly recommend you do. Here’s how to set it up:

1. Log into your wordpress admin area.
2. Go to your settings. This is one of the last links found in the left sidebar of your blogs admin area.
3. Click on the “Writing” link under settings.
4. Scroll down to “Update Services” and paste the list below in there.
5. Click on “Save Changes” and you’re done.

Here’s my list. I have been using it for a few months now. Feel free to copy and paste it into your “Update Services” list.

http://a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2

http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://bitacoras.net/ping

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

http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

http://blogpeople.net/ping

http://blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1

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

http://blogsearc

h.google.at/ping/RPC2

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

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

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

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

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

http://blogsearch.google.co.cr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.hu/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.id/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.il/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.in/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.jp/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.ma/ping/RPC2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://blogsearch.google.co.nz/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.th/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.uk/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.ve/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.za/ping/RPC2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://blogsnow.com/ping

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

http://feedsky.com/api/RPC2

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc

http://ping.blo.gs

http://ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2

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

http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc

http://ping.fc2.com

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.kutsulog.net

http://ping.myblog.jp

http://ping.namaan.net/rpc

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.wordblog.de

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2

http://r.hatena.ne.jp/rpc

http://rpc.bloggerei.de/ping

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping

http://rpc.twingly.com

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://rpc.wpkeys.com

http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx

http://www.wasalive.com/ping

http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

http://www.bloglines.com/ping

http://www.blogoole.com/ping

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

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

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://www.wasalive.com/ping

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

http://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php

That’s it for today. I hope you’ve found this little tutorial about how to ping your blog helpful.