Who to ping when you’ve updated your blog?
Daniel of the Daily Blogging Tip, I wrote about one of his articles earlier, published an interesting and useful article again, titled with the simple but clear ‘Ping list‘. For those who don’t know what it’s aiming a: these days weblogs send out ‘pings’ to other weblogs and indexing services to let these know there has been added new or changed content.
The advantage of this is clear; these web services wont have to keep checking your weblog every x hours to see if there is something new, saving both you and them time. In addition to that your content will also appear online very quick, which is no doubt important for webloggers.
In his article he has pasted a huge list of web services that you can use to notify your blog has new content. Many people seem to think ‘more is better’, but I personally prefer ‘less is more’, as having less servers to ping will crease the speed of your websites.
However, according to an article by Instant Info Online, this list contains a whole lot of duplicate entries, slowing the process down unnecessarily. The reason of these duplicate entries for this is pretty simple; a lot of these services don’t actually run a search engine themselves, but merely collect statistics and pass the pings on to various other websites. By letting those websites do that work for you, the process will be done faster, giving your server less stress and you less of a waiting time before your entries appear.
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://bblog.com/ping.php
If you use the URLs of trackback servers above here with Wordpress, you should be totally fine and finished a lot faster than with the ten to twenty times more links in the other article. Simply add them under ‘Options’, ‘Writing’ and ‘Update Servers’. In case you’re using different software you’ll have to take a look at your options webpages.
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