What is Pinging? UPDATED List of 65 Ping Services!

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Ping is a XML-RPC based push mechanism. It notifies search engines and other servers that your blog is ready with updates. Once servers get notified by ping services, they visit your blog, crawl your contents and update their database. In order to get a good stand, you need to use ping service every time you update your blog. Blogs like WordPress and Nucleus use an inbuilt pinging service and can notify severs automatically once you update your blog. But with blogger blogs, you have to do it manually.

There are several pinging services available today. In order to get noticed and updated, you should use the best pinging services. Here, i am listing a list of best ping services. Use them and ping your blog. This plays a very important role in your blog’s SEO also.

Lets start with WordPress and Nucleus. You can update these following ping services in your blog and your blog will automatically ping search engines once you make some changes in your blog.

1. http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
8. http://bitacoras.net/ping
9. http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
12. http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
13. http://coreblog.org/ping/
15. http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
16. ttp://ping.amagle.com/
17. http://ping.bitacoras.com
18. http://ping.blo.gs/
19. http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
23. http://ping.feedburner.com
24. http://ping.myblog.jp
25. http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
27. http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
30. http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
31. http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
32. http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
35. http://rpc.pingomatic.com
37. http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
40. http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
43. http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
46. http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
49. http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
56. http://xmlrpc.blogg.de

Now if you are a blogger user, you have to ping your blog manually. Once you post a new article, visit the below sites, enter your site’s name and ping.

1. Pingomatic – Most popular one. Can ping your blog to most of the search engines.
2. Technorati – One of the most powerful ping service. Always try pinging this service.
3. Pingoat – This can ping up to 52 services.
4. King Ping – Check the pinging services and ping up to 18 ping services.
5. Ping The Empire – Pings 18 most used servers.
6. Pingates – Supports several language pings.
7. AutoPinger – As the name suggests, once asked it will start pinging to selected servers.
8. Ping.in – It can notify blog services and blog search engines.
9. Feed Shark – You can use this service to ping several search engines and directories.

Pinging is a very powerful part of blogging and should be used to maximize your blog’s exposure. But few times this pinging might get you banned from search engines also. Pinging services automatically notify search engines once you update your blog. This update may happen because of a new post or if you have just edited one of your posts. Now suppose you edit 10 blog posts in one hour, then all ping services would get pinged 10 times in one hour.

Sending excessive pings in a  short period of time may get you banned from search engines. And also, while posting a future scheduled post, your blog notifies the search engines that your blog is ready with updates. But when the search engine spiders visit your blog, they will find nothing new as you have a future scheduled post. In this way they will think that you are sending them unnecessary pings. Doing these thing unknowingly might get your blog banned.

But here is a solution for this excessive pinging. You can use any of those ping optimizer tools. For wordpress users, there is a plugin called MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer. This plugin will automatically notify search engines only when you make a new post A must download tool for all wordpress users. It’s wordpress ping optimizer.


MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer will limit excessive pinging by not sending any pings while editing or saving any scheduled posts. You can also set the minimum pinging duration and can add different pinging services with this. It uses a log system which can tell you the last 20 ping records. Use this pinging plugin for wordpress for maximum security and excessive pinging problems.

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