How often do you ping?

Meoww
from Seoul
12 years ago

Me too! Never pinged before. Let me see if it brings about any major jump in my traffic!

DS
from Mumbai
12 years ago

I have never pinged! Will try to do from now on if I remember. Seems useful.

Subhorup Dasgupta
from Hyderabad
12 years ago

i cannot tell what percentage of traffic to niche blogs like tech or entertainment might be coming from feedfarms and directories, but i get about 1 percent of my traffic from directories. i ping after every update, and though eariler i used several pinging services, now i use pingomatic only. pinging without updates does not make sense, since the servers read the last update and if there is a duplicate, your ping is ignored, therefore...

nice to read some ninja tips here though.

note to indigrammar police. lowercase due to key trouble, not laziness or creativity.

Arti
from Mumbai
12 years ago

Thank you, Subho. Good to finally have someone from blogspot who pings. Yes, pingomatic is the best of the lot acc. to me too and I never miss pinging via that. How exactly should we ping, as in with a .in or .com extension? or does it not matter since both would be pointing the servers to the same content? Any ideas on that?

And a nice note to the IGP there...  However, they seem to be busy fighting a hard battle elsewhere.

Mohonish 'Xeno' Chakraborty
from Kolkata
12 years ago

Well i'd surely ping often if I posted often in the first place. :D

Arti
from Mumbai
12 years ago

Yeah, now that you are free.. you should definitely be putting your pen to paper more often!

Mohonish 'Xeno' Chakraborty
from Kolkata
12 years ago

the thing is, my exams start tomorrow. So as usual, i'm back to blogging as well.

Arti
from Mumbai
12 years ago

lol! You are 'THE XENO', really! Welcome back to the world of blogging and All the best!

Hemal Shah
from Mumbai
12 years ago

lol dude!!

DS
from Mumbai
12 years ago

Nice one Xeno!! LOL

Stephen
from Raleigh
12 years ago

yes i never knew all this.. you should perhaps put some light on this too

Arti
from Mumbai
12 years ago

Just go through this thread TSW, should help you get started on a lot of things...  I myself have been learning things here.

indu chhibber
from Kota
12 years ago

This pinging business is totally new to me,i shall check it up now-thanks friends.

Arti
from Mumbai
12 years ago

Do check it out Induji and if you stumble on something new, do let us know too :)

Shalu Sharma
from Patna, Delhi
12 years ago

If you have a wordpress, it should do it automatically as far as I know. No need to do it all the time, only after a new post. 

Arti
from Mumbai
12 years ago

Thanks Shalu, yes we need to do it only after a new post.

Hemal Shah
from Mumbai
12 years ago

Fortunately, my selfhosted Wordpress does this for me and all I have to do is list down all sites that I need my blog posts pinged to! :)

Arti
from Mumbai
12 years ago

Lucky you, to have that feature! I have to ping manually each time like a robot :(

Which sites are they and how many of them have you listed? Are they free and can they be used for blogspot as well?

Hemal Shah
from Mumbai
12 years ago

As of now, the following are the sites my wordpress pings to.

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/http://zing.zingfast.comhttp://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.phphttp://xping.pubsub.com/ping/http://xmlrpc.blogg.dehttp://www.zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.phphttp://www.xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.phphttp://www.weblogues.com/RPC/http://www.weblogues.comhttp://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2http://www.snipsnap.orghttp://www.popdex.com/addsite.phphttp://www.popdex.comhttp://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.phphttp://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloudhttp://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.phphttp://www.imblogs.net/ping/http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2http://www.catapings.com/ping.phphttp://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgihttp://www.blogsnow.com/pinghttp://www.blogshares.com/rpc.phphttp://www.blogsdominicanos.com/ping/http://www.blogroots.comhttp://www.blogpeople.nethttp://www.blogoon.net/ping/http://www.blogoole.com/ping/http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.phphttp://www.a2b.cchttp://weblogues.com/RPC/http://weblogues.com/ping/http://wasalive.com/ping/http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.phphttp://topicexchange.comhttp://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.phphttp://syndic8.com/xmlrpc.phphttp://snipsnap.org/RPC2http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.dozhttp://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspxhttp://rpc.wpkeys.comhttp://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2http://rpc.twingly.comhttp://rpc.technorati.jp/rpc/pinghttp://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/pinghttp://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/pinghttp://rpc.pingomatic.comhttp://rpc.newsgator.com/http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080http://rpc.britblog.com/http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/http://rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/http://rcs.datashed.nethttp://r.hatena.ne.jp/rpchttp://popdex.com/addsite.phphttp://pingqueue.com/rpc/http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2http://pingoat.com/http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpchttp://ping.wordblog.de/http://ping.weblogs.se/http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.phphttp://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.phphttp://ping.snap.com/ping/RPC2http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.phphttp://ping.namaan.net/rpchttp://ping.myblog.jphttp://ping.kutsulog.net/http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/RPC2/http://ping.feedburner.comhttp://ping.fc2.com/http://ping.fakapster.com/rpchttp://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpchttp://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpchttp://ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2http://ping.blogoon.net/http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/http://ping.blogg.de/http://ping.blo.gs/http://ping.bitacoras.comhttp://ping.amagle.com/http://packetmonster.net/xmlrpc.phphttp://newsisfree.com/RPCCloudhttp://newsblog.jungleboots.org/ping.phphttp://mod-pubsub.org/ping.phphttp://mod-pubsub.orghttp://lasermemory.com/lsrpc/http://imblogs.net/ping/http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/http://hamo-search.com/ping.phphttp://fgiasson.com/pings/ping.phphttp://feedsky.com/api/RPC2http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgihttp://coreblog.org/ping/http://catapings.com/ping.phphttp://bulkfeeds.nethttp://blogupdate.org/ping/http://blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgihttp://blogsnow.com/pinghttp://blogshares.com/rpc.phphttp://blogsearch.google.us/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.tw/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.sk/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.se/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.ru/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.ro/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.pt/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.pl/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.nl/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.lt/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.jp/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.it/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.in/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.ie/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.hr/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.gr/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.fr/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.fi/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.es/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.de/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.vn/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.uy/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.ua/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.tw/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.tr/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.sg/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.sa/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.pe/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.my/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.mx/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.do/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.co/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.br/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.au/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.com.ar/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.co.za/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.co.ve/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.co.uk/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.co.th/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.co.nz/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.co.ma/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.co.jp/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.co.it/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.co.in/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.co.il/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.co.id/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.co.hu/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.co.cr/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.cl/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.ch/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.ca/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.bg/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.be/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2http://blogsearch.google.ae/ping/RPC2http://blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1http://blogpeople.net/pinghttp://blogoon.net/ping/http://blogoole.com/ping/http://blogmatcher.com/u.phphttp://blogdigger.com/RPC2http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpchttp://blogdb.jphttp://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.phphttp://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPChttp://blog.goo.ne.jphttp://blo.gs/ping.phphttp://bitacoras.net/ping/http://bitacoles.net/ping.phphttp://bitacoles.net/notificacio.phphttp://bblog.comping.phphttp://bblog.com/ping.phphttp://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/pinghttp://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2http://api.my.yahoo.com/pinghttp://api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2http://api.moreover.com/RPC2http://api.moreover.com/pinghttp://api.feedster.com/pinghttp://a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2bhttp://1470.net/api/pinghttp://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

Hemal Shah
from Mumbai
12 years ago

crap! i went through pain to get the formatting right, but still the formatting went for a toss.. s***t

Hemal Shah
from Mumbai
12 years ago

Trying one last time.. this time using HTML.

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://zing.zingfast.com

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

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

http://xmlrpc.blogg.de

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

http://www.xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php

http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

http://www.weblogues.com

http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2

http://www.snipsnap.org

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

http://www.popdex.com

http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php

http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud

http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php

http://www.imblogs.net/ping/

http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/

http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2

http://www.catapings.com/ping.php

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

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://www.blogsdominicanos.com/ping/

http://www.blogroots.com

http://www.blogpeople.net

http://www.blogoon.net/ping/

http://www.blogoole.com/ping/

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

http://www.a2b.cc

http://weblogues.com/RPC/

http://weblogues.com/ping/

http://wasalive.com/ping/

http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php

http://topicexchange.com

http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php

http://syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://snipsnap.org/RPC2

http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz

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

http://rpc.wpkeys.com

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://rpc.twingly.com

http://rpc.technorati.jp/rpc/ping

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

http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2

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

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

http://rpc.newsgator.com/

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080

http://rpc.britblog.com/

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

http://rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/

http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2

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

http://rcs.datashed.net

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

http://popdex.com/addsite.php

http://pingqueue.com/rpc/

http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2

http://pingoat.com/

http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc

http://ping.wordblog.de/

http://ping.weblogs.se/

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

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

http://ping.snap.com/ping/RPC2

http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php

http://ping.namaan.net/rpc

http://ping.myblog.jp

http://ping.kutsulog.net/

http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/RPC2/

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.fc2.com/

http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc

http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc

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

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

http://ping.blogoon.net/

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

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

http://ping.blogg.de/

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.amagle.com/

http://packetmonster.net/xmlrpc.php

http://newsisfree.com/RPCCloud

http://newsblog.jungleboots.org/ping.php

http://mod-pubsub.org/ping.php

http://mod-pubsub.org

http://lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

http://imblogs.net/ping/

http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/

http://hamo-search.com/ping.php

http://fgiasson.com/pings/ping.php

http://feedsky.com/api/RPC2

http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi

http://coreblog.org/ping/

http://catapings.com/ping.php

http://bulkfeeds.net

http://blogupdate.org/ping/

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

http://blogsnow.com/ping

http://blogshares.com/rpc.php

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://blogpeople.net/ping

http://blogoon.net/ping/

http://blogoole.com/ping/

http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

http://blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc

http://blogdb.jp

http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php

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

http://blog.goo.ne.jp

http://blo.gs/ping.php

http://bitacoras.net/ping/

http://bitacoles.net/ping.php

http://bitacoles.net/notificacio.php

http://bblog.comping.php

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/ping

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

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://api.feedster.com/ping

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

http://1470.net/api/ping

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

Hemal Shah
from Mumbai
12 years ago

finally, got it right! :P 

indu chhibber
from Kota
12 years ago

Hemal,tell me how has all this helped you? i mean is the labour worth the pains taken>

Arti
from Mumbai
12 years ago

Hemal, thank you so much for going through so much of trouble for getting this here. That was very nice of you, really appreciate a lot.. thanks

I guess these cannot be used for blogspot blogs and are custom made specifically for wordpress blogs (is it?), coz I tried opening up a few of the sites that you mentioned and it just refuses to open up. The only site that I seem to identify in the list is pinggoat. I have a meager count of 3 pingsites when compared to the long list that you have put down. I wonder how many sites blogspot users generally use for pinging since we do it manually.

@induji For wordpress blogs, pinging is done automatically unlike blogspot. Must be quite useful I guess, otherwise this entire concept wouldn't have existed. Still, I am sure Hemal can throw more light on this.

Hemal Shah
from Mumbai
12 years ago

@Indu about how it has helped me, frankly I have no clue at all. The problem could be that I am not optimally using keywords or the content that I write may not be exiting to many markets, bar India. Why this helps, yes I do have an answer. When you have a good RSS feed subscriber base and / or websites which show your feeds, this Pinging helps. It updates all the servers in the world to fetch the latest information from your blog. If you see throough the list that I have posted above, there are Google Blog reader sites. This is also doubles up as a bot helping google search, as well as update all the RSS feeds linked from a iGoogle page, which is a customizable google page. Unless you have a large reach, doing all of these manually does not make sense.

As Arti said, a self hosted (or free wordpress.com) Wordpress does this automatically. As long as this list is there, you dont have to be worried about pinging this to other servers.

@Arti no problems dear! :) sacchii... :D :D

It does not limit to Wordpres dear, every blog feed / content can be pinged on these sites. There are so many variety of blogs out there, I can list a few already :P There are close to 22 million blogs overall this world and everyone has a story to tell.

• Wordpress
• Moveable Type
• Typepad
• Blogsmith
• Gawker
• Drupal
• Expression engine

DS
from Mumbai
12 years ago

Hemal Sir has started his classes here!!!

Arti
from Mumbai
12 years ago

Oh my!! Hemal, this is like an entire wikipedia (or IndiWiki ;)) on Ping and its benefits! You always come up with some info entirely new! Thats really nice, though some of it did sail over my head (because of my tech handicap) but quite a bit of it went into it too.. Thank you for the insightful explanation.

Pooja Pradeep
from Bangalore
12 years ago

I don't know what PINGing is. Someone, explain to me pleaseand also tell me what's the USE of it?

Desire v/s Destiny
from Gurgaon
12 years ago

Pinging means advertising ur blog , any updation on ur blogs via these servers , which forward ur RSS feed and updates to various servers

 

Pooja Pradeep
from Bangalore
12 years ago

And there are sites just for that?

I mean you can do that here in Indi, FB, Twitter and Pintrest.

Why a totally different site just for that?

Desire v/s Destiny
from Gurgaon
12 years ago

Because at once it sends ur ping to several sites at once

Janak Kumar Yadav
from Howrah
12 years ago

Pooja, you can also search wikipedia for "ping"....

Arti
from Mumbai
12 years ago

Poo, I guess the sites that you mention act more like mediums for notifications to people about our blog updates whereas Ping sites do the same for the machines

Janak Kumar Yadav
from Howrah
12 years ago

Arti, since you are having a travel blog you may need to ping everytime you post a new article on your site. This pinging will let other web tools, sites and search engines to know that you have a new content. Pinging your blog is required only when you have new contents on it. Unless otherwise it is waste of time to ping your blog with old content. 

The above mentioned pinging services are fine to use, whereas use the first and best pinging tool, that is weblogs

I personally, dont use pings for my blog anymore. I just keep in my mind to get quality backlinks to my blog, as backlinks are much better for bringing traffic to your blog. Pinging did not helped me that much but for blogs like yours, I would prefer to ping whenever you have a new post so that your new contents be available to search engines from the very first day.

Happy Pinging 

TF Carthick
from Bangalore
12 years ago

Thanks a lot, Janky. I was wondering what all this ping was all about. You are the tech guru here.

Pooja Pradeep
from Bangalore
12 years ago

I got a bitbut still more clarifications needed. Help na JKY jhi

Janak Kumar Yadav
from Howrah
12 years ago

your welcome TF...and sure Pooja I will like to share the knowledge with you all.....

Arti
from Mumbai
12 years ago

@Janak Thanks Janak for your detailed reply. Interesting to know that personal blogs do not need to be pinged at all! I learnt about pinging when I was very new to the blogging world and have since then been using it for my blog regularly.

Weblogs is a new name for me, checked it out and will certainly use it from now on. However, I have one question, how should I ping my blog - with .in extension or .com? And what does 'Changes URL' field (in weblogs) supposed to signify?

Thanks