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Ok, so let me just say that this list took me about 10 hours to put together! Yes, that seems ridiculous but unfortunately it’s true. I searched google for sites (RPC and RPC2) that I could ping with my new blog and I came up with a couple of lists.

Now before I get too far into this article, you may be wondering what the point of pinging sites is. Well basically, most content management system (CMS) or blog software has an automated method of telling directories and lists that your site has been updated. If you want to see how WordPress does it or how they explain it, check here. Although the blog or CMS software has a way to tell directories that your site has been updated, it still needs to know who to contact…and this is where the list comes into play. The list that I’ve provided are the sites that you’ll want to notify that your site has been updated. These sites in turn, will provide you with exposure, search engine indexing and free marketing.

The lists that I found online were horrible to say the least. I was so excited when I got them at first. One list had about 50 sites to ping and the other had about 87 to be exact. Sounded great to me!…I put the 87 sites to work right away! What a big mistake! I didn’t realize that the same sites had been re-listed on the list multiple times, under different names. It’s a great way to get your site banned for spamming! I was not impressed! I had to clean up the list somehow. The best way I could think of was to go through the list, one site at a time.

So, I started going through the lists. What I found out, is that there are a couple of different sites that are accepting pings. One is a distribution-type ping site like http://www.pingomatic.com/. The second is a single site that allows you to tell them you’ve updated your site. Distribution-type sites are a great time saver because what they do is re-distribute your ping to other servers. They’re like a ping hub. For example, if you ping pingomatic.com, the site will ping all of these sites for you automatically:

• weblogs.com
• feed burner
• feedster
• blogdigger
• moreover
• news is free
• blo.gs
• syndic8
• my yahoo!
• blogrolling
• weblogalot
• topic exchange
• technorati
• newsgator
• pubsub.com
• blogstreet
• icerocket
• blogshares
• rubhub

So, with that being said, I removed all of these sites off of my new list. I only kept pingomatic.com because it’s known to be very reliable and will take care of a lot of the work for us. I also checked the rest of the lists out. There were about three more distribution-type pinging sites that I had to take off of the lists, otherwise you might end-up pinging the same site 3-4+ times without even knowing it! I also found that about half of the ping sites on these lists weren’t even working anymore, they were either taken down (the servers themselves) or they were no longer providing ping-update services because of spam problems.

Also to note is that there are a few sites out there that allow you to ping-update them only after you’ve registered with them on their websites. There’s nothing wrong with these sites, but I don’t have the time to register at them all so they weren’t researched for this either. I also saw a couple of sites that wouldn’t allow you to ping them without placing reciprocal links on your site to their’s. I don’t understand that kind of mentality when they’re a directory. Basically they’re getting you to push them visitors as well as push their page rank up when in return they’re supposed to be providing a public service to the Internet so there really shouldn’t be restrictions like that (especially since they’ll be making a ton of money from ad placements anyway).

I also noticed one site, www.blogsnow.com had a stern warning on it’s website saying that your site would be banned and blacklisted if you pinged http://blogsnow.com/ping. That’s a scary thought, since that was included on most of the lists I had seen floating around.

Anyhow, getting to the list already! The list includes 13 ping services that you should definitely add to your list. They are:


http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.focuslook.com/ping.php
http://www.blogupdate.org/ping/
http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/

There are also 12 optional ping sites that you can add depending on your website’s language and other requirements:


http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/ - Japanese
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC - Japanese
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/ - Japanese
http://ping.amagle.com - Amazon search engine
http://ping.bitacoras.com - spanish site
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc - Ping directory
http://ping.myblog.jp - Japanese
http://ping.wordblog.de - German
http://www.weblogues.com/ping - French blogs only
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b - latitude and longitude only
http://www.blogoon.net - Japanese
http://www.blogstreet.com - Indian blogs ONLY

Don’t forget that pingomatic.com is also adding 19+ sites to the list so in total there are approximately 32+ ping sites that your site can communicate with (that’s without the optional ping sites). I think that’s still a great amount of exposure for your site and the key here is that it’s SAFE exposure for your site and will keep it off of the blacklists!

So, good luck and let me know how it goes! Also, if you have any more sites to add to this list that I might of missed, please feel free to leave a comment and let me know!

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