While most bloggers use Ping-o-Matic to handle their pings, I have found that using a comprehensive ping list is a much more ideal solution. By using pings, your site can inform other sites that it has fresh content and should be crawled or indexed. So each additional ping service that you can add to your update list increases your site’s exposure online.
By default, WordPress pings the sites on it’s update list each time a post is published or edited. While this sounds nice, this feature has taken a lot of heat over the years for a few reasons:
- Pinging your update list unnecessarily and frequently can cause your site to be banned from certain sites.
- WordPress pings the update list as soon as the publish button is clicked, so even if you schedule a post for the future it will ping the update list immediately.
Please don’t get me wrong here, this is a great feature. I wouldn’t be surprised if the WordPress developers fixed these issues over the next few releases. But anyways, let’s get down to making a great update list for your blog!
Editing Your Update List
Log in to your WordPress Dashboard and navigate to the Settings tab. Now click on the Writing tab under Settings. Once you are on the Writing page navigate down the page to Update Services.
This box is now your best friend, and if it is utilized correctly it can yield a steady traffic stream from users searching the web. My personal update list is below, please feel free to use it, edit it, and share it! Most of the links are current, but since it is such a big list it is hard to keep track of sites which may have gone offline. If any sites are dead they will not affect your ping performance so you can leave them in the list.
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://1470.net/api/ping http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b 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://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php http://bitacoras.net/ping http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2 http://blogmatcher.com/u.php 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://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc http://coreblog.org/ping/ http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/ http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php http://ping.amagle.com/ http://ping.bitacoras.com http://ping.blo.gs/ 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://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2 http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/ http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2 http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/ http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2 http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php http://topicexchange.com/RPC2 http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/ http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/ http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/ http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://bblog.com/ping.php http://rpc.newsgator.com/ http://rpc.pingomatic.com http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud http://xmlrpc.blogg.de http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx http://bloglines.com/ping http://api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2 http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 http://blogpeople.net/ping http://blogsearch.google.ae/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.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.it/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.co.jp/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.co.ma/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.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.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.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.in/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.tw/ping/RPC2 http://blogsearch.google.us/ping/RPC2 http://feedsky.com/api/RPC2 http://hamo-search.com/ping.php http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/ http://ping.blogoon.net/ http://ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2 http://ping.fc2.com/ http://ping.feedburner.com/ http://ping.kutsulog.net/ http://ping.myblog.jp/ http://ping.namaan.net/rpc http://ping.snap.com/ping/RPC2 http://ping.wordblog.de/ http://r.hatena.ne.jp/rpc http://rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/ http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping http://rpc.technorati.jp/rpc/ping http://rpc.twingly.com/ http://wasalive.com/ping/ http://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
So here you go, 140 sites for you to ping! Just copy and paste this list into your Update Services box and click Save Changes. Presto, you’ve just upgraded your blog’s performance.
I would enjoy some feedback on pings so please comment and share your strategies. Thanks for reading!
That’s such an easy way to get a quick improvement! I am going to use this on my websites.
Just want to say what a great blog you got here!
I’ve been around for quite a lot of time, but finally decided to show my appreciation of your work!
Thumbs up, and keep it going!
Cheers
Christian
Great article, thank you very much!
Thank you so much, I just updated my ping list which was only about 5 sites before hehe. Let’s see if this helps!
Amazing!! This is what I’ve been looking for thanks.
Glad to hear this list has been helpful, again if there are any sites I missed please let me know!
Good article, thank you so much.