Don’t Forget To Ping! 70 Links Included

For those of you who own a blog, are you making sure to “ping” blog crawler sites when you publish new posts on your site? Pinging these services is like submitting a static website to a search engine- only better. When you submit a website to a search engine, you have to wait for weeks or months for the spiders to crawl your website, and then hope that they will list your site. When you ping these blog services, you are in effect notifying them that you have published new information and their spiders will automatically crawl your blog to search for this new information, publish it, and in turn will increase your website’s popularity. The crawling process is usually completed within a few hours as opposed as weeks or months. Pinging sites as these is something that every blog owner should implement when making posts. And best of all, it’s free!

If you use Wordpress for your blog, here are the instructions on how to set which services you automatically wish to ping when you write a new post:

Login to your Wordpress admin area. Go to Options > Writing > Update Services.
Enter a list of all the services you wish to notify when you publish a new post in your blog, and Wordpress will automatically ping these services for you.

Don’t know which services to notify? Have no fear! I have included a list of 70 sites you can ping to have their spiders automatically crawl your blog (courtesy of WikiPedia.org):

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
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://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping
http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs
http://ping.blogg.de
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
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://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://pingqueue.com/rpc
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://rpc.britblog.com
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080
http://rpc.newsgator.com
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
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.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping
http://www.imblogs.net/ping
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc
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://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/

If you regularly post quality and original content on a well designed blog and ping some of these blog crawlers, you will without a doubt notice an increase in your blog’s popularity. So when you’re writing those posts, remember- don’t forget to ping!