Update your Ping List To Boost your Blog Traffic

Update your Ping List To Boost your Blog Traffic

Posted on 30. Aug, 2009 by Mike J in WordPress

Every blogger or blog  likes extra traffic, so here’s a good way to increase traffic to your blog.  Take for instance by default, WordPress  will let different RPC services know that you have updated your blog by sending what is called a ping to them. It also is referred to as a RPC (Remote Procedure Call).  A ping is sort of like a tap on the shoulder or just a friendly reminder to check out your blog for the latest news.  By default, a WordPress blog is setup to only ping the service Ping-o-matic which pings over 20 other RPC services. By updating this list, your blog will ping many other RPC services not included with Ping-o-matic.

Advantages
The sole purpose of some of these services is to gather all of the latest news on blogs around the world and to promote them. This of course, will drive some traffic back to your blog — not tremendous amounts though, since a lot of these services aren’t too popular. Also, this will also help your latest post get crawled and indexed faster by search engines as they will find your post faster.

Disadvantages
Not to many really, except that if you ping a service too often, you may get black listed. When I say too often, I’m meaning in the hundreds of times a day so as long as you don’t go wild (spamming), I wouldn’t worry about it.

Updating your Ping List
In WordPress, you can update your ping list from the admin page under Options->Writing. Here is a good list of RPC services. I found this list at a site by Vladimir Prelovac @ Prelovac.com.

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

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11 Responses to “Update your Ping List To Boost your Blog Traffic”

  1. Blog Traffic

    10. Sep, 2009

    Good starting ping list.

    Blog and ping should be a vital part of EVERY BLOGGER’S PROMOTIONAL ARSENAL.

    For a comprehensive list of 142 ping services consult my blog post:

    Blog And Ping — Expanded
    List Of Ping Service

    If you find sufficient value in this list of ping services, please link to it in your “Resources” section.

    Thanks.

    Best of success,

    Robert A. Kearse

  2. Hassaan Khan

    07. Oct, 2009

    Hi,

    Informative post! Keep it up!

  3. Mathdelane

    15. Oct, 2009

    Hi Mike,

    This is a great list although some of it can already get pinged via pingomatic so it needs a little bit of updating but other than that, thank you for sharing this!

    It’s my first time here and this blog is promising. I wonder if you needed a contributor.

  4. Mike J

    15. Oct, 2009

    Mathdelane: I will check on that and get it updated as soon as possible thanks for the advice.

    On the contributer, yes I have needed a contributer it enables me and the blog itself to provide more quality content often. I believe this also provides for a more diverse opinion base as well.

  5. Marketing Internetowy

    27. Jan, 2010

    Hi Mike,

    I’ve got a nice pinglist on my blog as well:) I have also installed quite a useful plugin called Ping Optimizer which prevents some of these pinging services from pinging too often, even when I edit my blog post.

    I hope you find this small tip useful:)

  6. LarryLove

    25. Feb, 2010

    Hey very nice blog!!….I’m an instant fan, I have bookmarked you and I’ll be checking back on a regular….See ya :)

  7. hixViary

    09. Apr, 2010

    Thanks for taking the time to post such a detailed and informative article. It has given me a lot of inspiration and I look forward to more like this in the future.

  8. very early symptoms of pregnancy

    01. May, 2010

    Your blog is so informative

  9. David

    03. May, 2010

    Good article, great list and a great start to a solid ping list but definitely include some more sites so you can get more exposure :)

  10. knightblogger

    11. May, 2010

    thanks for that list. I like it.

  11. Scott Fuller

    29. Jul, 2010

    Nice, simple list, great site. I’m RSS subscribed!

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