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Aug 05 2011

Automate Your WordPress Pinging

My last post, Submitting Your Blog to RSS & Blog Directories, talked about automatically notifying blog directories whenever you post on your site. This is a great way to get the word out there!

WordPress actually has this functionality built into its inner code. Not only that, but your posts are automatically sent to one of the most popular blog directories, pingomatic.com.

So, the good news is that you are already doing without knowing it! Congratulations! The not-so-good news is that you are not letting even MORE directories know about your post! Rest assured – I will help you out with that one.

First, I am going to suggest that you install a plugin to help with this. This is not truly necessary, but it helps (and I will point out where and why).

Step 1 – install and activate the plugin, cbnet Ping Optimizer. You can find this when you search when adding a new plug-in. Remember to activate it.
Step 2 – Under Settings, you will see a new entry for cbnet Ping Optimizer. Click on the link to edit the settings of your new plugin.

Step 3 – You will see the lonely entry I mentioned before for, pingomatic.com. Rather than submit to only this site, add the following list to your list (note – you will see this list includes the one that is already there – include it only once):

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2/
http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC/
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.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.com/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.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.us/ping/RPC2/
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://feedsky.com/api/RPC2/
http://hamo-search.com/ping.php/
http://ping.bitacoras.com/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
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.rootblog.com/rpc.php/
http://ping.snap.com/ping/RPC2/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2/
http://rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2/
http://wasalive.com/ping/
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2/
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php/

Remember to click Save Settings.

You are all set! The next time you create a post, all of these directories will be notified of your new content!

If you are still reading this and you remember one of of the things I mentioned was that this plug in is NOT required, let me tell you why! While still in your dashboard, check out Settings / Writing area. Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see a section, Update Services. All the entries we put in the cbnet Ping Optimizer are also listed here. If you don’t want to install the plugin, you can simply paste in the list above into this area and the same thing will occur – everything you post, everyone gets notified.

The reason I like the plugin is that it keeps track of when the directories are updated and if any of them failed!

ping

You can see from above that some of the entries failed. Not to worry… When I see the same servers failing every time I post (after about 7 posts), i will go in and delete it from the list. If it fails once, it may just mean that the server is down or something else is going on.

Let me know if you have any questions about this. I don’t want to write tooooooo much about this 馃槈

Written by Paul · Categorized: Blogging Category

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. denny hagel says

    August 5, 2011 at 5:45 pm

    Thank you Paul, this is so awesome! 馃檪

    Reply
    • Paul says

      August 6, 2011 at 8:50 am

      Good luck with it, Denny!

      Reply
  2. Olga Hermans says

    August 5, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    Thanks Paul, I had this installed already some time ago, never thought about it any more. Thanks for showing me the value of it..

    Reply
    • Paul says

      August 6, 2011 at 8:51 am

      Olga – you can now update your list!

      Reply
  3. michael Dunner says

    August 5, 2011 at 8:04 pm

    Hello Paul,i am in the process of constructing a blog and i found this information you provided very useful !! Thank you and all the best.

    Reply
    • Paul says

      August 6, 2011 at 8:51 am

      Great, Michael! Let me know if you have any other questions! Best of luck with the new blog!

      Reply
  4. stacey says

    August 6, 2011 at 9:10 am

    I never knew this was there. I am adding to my list today! Thank you for telling me this.

    Reply
  5. AJ says

    August 7, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    Paul,
    Thanks for a great series of posts! I just installed it as you said, I appreciate your guidance.
    -AJ

    Reply
    • Paul says

      August 7, 2011 at 9:53 pm

      AJ – remember to check the logs every so often to see if any of the servers are no longer active.

      Reply
  6. Anne (Annie) Berryhill says

    August 8, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    Paul you always provide such good content that I would never otherwise know about or know how to do! I am doing this right away! I will take all the exposure I can get!

    Reply
  7. Lori Thayer says

    August 8, 2011 at 4:43 pm

    Great tips, thanks Paul

    Reply
  8. Lori Ferguson says

    August 9, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    Thank you! (installed) 馃檪

    Reply
  9. Julia says

    August 9, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    This is great information Paul. Thank you for being so generous with your knowledge.

    Reply
    • Paul says

      August 9, 2011 at 9:16 pm

      Glad you are enjoying it, Julia! And, hopefully you are applying what you think is appropriate for your site!

      Reply
  10. carol hazeldine says

    September 9, 2011 at 11:32 am

    Thank you for this information. It is really helpful

    Reply
    • Paul says

      September 9, 2011 at 2:46 pm

      You are very welcome, Carol!

      Reply
  11. Asad says

    December 15, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    Just did this and every one of the directories returned a “status code not 200” error. What gives?

    Reply
    • Paul says

      December 16, 2011 at 8:16 am

      Asad – When you ping one of the entries in your list, the server responds with an HTTP status code that provides info on how the request went.

      An http status code 200 means SUCCESS, so if you get a message that says status code was not 200, that means the request for the file failed for some reason. Sometimes a better response is provided and you can tell what the issue was. The message you are getting just says something went wrong.

      With that said, I typically do not check the ping log very often becuase I expect some failures every now and then. Servers are never up 100% of the time. Network errors occur. Etc.

      I checked my log and found a few failures for my recent post. Perhaps I will update this list over the weekend to see if any of these are no longer in service.

      Thanks for the note!

      Reply

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