Build Blog Traffic: Ping

There are so many ways to build blog traffic but in this post I am only going to mention one way (and plan on mentioning other ways in future posts).

This post will talk about something called “ping”. What if you wrote a post but nobody knew about it? No good. So, you should make sure that you setup your blog to automatically ping the numerous traffic services out there.

When you “ping” one of these services, you are basically saying “Hey, I just wrote a new post. Check it out.” That service will then go to your blog and see what you wrote. Here is a list of the services that we alert when we write a new blog post:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
xping.pubsub.com/ping
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
api.feedster.com/ping
api.moreover.com/RPC2
api.moreover.com/ping
api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
bitacoras.net/ping
blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
blogmatcher.com/u.php
www.blogoole.com/ping/
www.blogoon.net/ping/
www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
www.blogsnow.com/ping
www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
bulkfeeds.net/rpc
coreblog.org/ping/
www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
ping.amagle.com/
ping.bitacoras.com
ping.blo.gs/
ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
ping.feedburner.com
ping.myblog.jp
ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
ping.weblogs.se/
pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
www.popdex.com/addsite.php
rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
rpc.pingomatic.com/
rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
topicexchange.com/RPC2
www.weblogues.com/RPC/
xmlrpc.blogg.de/

Wow, that certainly is a long list. The more services you are notifying, the longer it may take for your new post to appear on your blog. So you should find the correct balance.

Alternatively, you could notify Ping-o-Matic (http://rpc.pingomatic.com/) and knock out several services all at once. I prefer to notify these services myself, as opposed to relying on another service to notify them. I don’t know if my way is better or not, so if you have an opinion, speak up ;).

What ping services do you use? If you use some that are missing from my list above, please share with the rest of the class!