The Importance of Pinging with WordPress
Posted by Travis Larson in Library on May 11th, 2009 | 1 commentPinging is a way of letting search engines know about new content on your website. It’s a great way to bring some attention to new information, and help reinvigorate old information with repinging.
How to Ping with WordPress
Using WordPress, each time you post an article or page your site will ping a small list of default sites. You can later go back to older articles and reping them. The more sites you ping to the merrier, so add the following…
Pinging Additional Sites
You can add more sites to be pinged through your Admin menu under Options and Writing. Simply add the new sites you want to include your pinging here. Find a list of other sites to ping that are relevant by searching Google for ‘topic ping sites’ where topic is the topic of your blog. A few sites I like to add are:
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
The Importance of Pinging
Pinging sites in moderation can help bring more exposure to your site. WordPress is set up to automatically ping Pingomatic. Pingomatic will cover a good number of sites and ensure new posts get some lovin’ too.
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Here’s a list of good pingback services. Add these to your WordPress under Settings and Writing.
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
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://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
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://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
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.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
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/