The Netiquette of Pings
Whenever you publish a blog entry, it’s good practice to “ping” or alert other search engines and directories. What is pinging, some of you might ask? Essentially, when you release a new entry, WordPress or Movable Type or whichever blog system you’re using sends out a notice to the directory that, “Hey, come check out my new entry and make sure it gets into your search results for other bloggers to read”. It’s pretty real time and important for evangelizing your blog and building traffic.
WordPress pings Ping-o-Matic by default, which in turn pings a whole slew of XMLRPC servers, but I’ve found in recent months that Ping-O-Matic has been less than reliable.
I’ve found that a good set of common ping URLS are:
- http://api.feedster.com/ping
- http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
- http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
- http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
- http://coreblog.org/ping/
- http://ping.feedburner.com
- http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
- http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
- http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
- http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
- http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
There are some basic rules of netiquette for pings. They may vary slightly from one service to another, but generally, it’s not a good idea to ping more than once in 30 minutes. Some services, like Technorati, automatically reject multiple pings in a 30 minute period of time.
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Written by Aaron Brazell on May 18, 2006
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Hey Aaron,
With the problems that P-O-M has had recently, I found another service that will ping all the same basic services.
It’s called King Ping http://fgiasson.com/pings/ping.php
I have used it on days that P-O-M was down and it seems to work well.
Thought you might like to pass it on for emergencies.
Joe
Hey Aaron,
With the problems that P-O-M has had recently, I found another service that will ping all the same basic services.
It’s called King Ping http://fgiasson.com/pings/ping.php
I have used it on days that P-O-M was down and it seems to work well.
Thought you might like to pass it on for emergencies.
Joe
So if I use your ping list should I remove pingomatic?
I have. That’s the only list I use and I use it on all my blogs.
So if I use your ping list should I remove pingomatic?
I have. That’s the only list I use and I use it on all my blogs.
Hey Aaron, doesn’t Wordpress automatically ping POM?? Hm…Unreliable?? What do you mean by that mate?
Wordpress automatically puts pingomatic in the list of URLs to be pinged, however it can be replaced. Unreliable as in it’s not been pinging. If you ping pingomatic, you’re pinging a black hole. That might have changed now that Automattic got VC funding and can put some effort into fixing it, but I haven’t checked recently.
Hey Aaron, doesn’t Wordpress automatically ping POM?? Hm…Unreliable?? What do you mean by that mate?
Wordpress automatically puts pingomatic in the list of URLs to be pinged, however it can be replaced. Unreliable as in it’s not been pinging. If you ping pingomatic, you’re pinging a black hole. That might have changed now that Automattic got VC funding and can put some effort into fixing it, but I haven’t checked recently.