Ping Servers, Search Engines About New Posts

Do you run a blog? How about letting some giants, RSS feeds, blogs, servers and search engines know that you have posted something new and interesting at your blog, automatically and free!

What is Pinging

Pinging is really quite simple but essential. It’s letting the search engines, RSS feeds, and other interested blog sites know that your blog has been updated. It’s like running out into the streets of the internet and screaming that your blog has a a brilliant new post for everyone to read. Maybe not quite that dramatic, but you get the idea. It’s simply a notification of a post.

Is it’s essential to ping the blog services immediately after poting. Well, as soon as you post is the best time. If you do forget, however, ping the blog later when you think of it. Don’t worry about being on time. Better a late ping than no ping at all.

Many blog authoring tools automatically ping one or more servers each time the blogger creates a new post (or updates an old one.) That is, the tool sends an XML-RPC signal to one or more “ping servers” which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material.

Check out what’s going on at Weblogs.com and Technorati.

Open ping servers, like VeriSign’s Weblogs.com and Yahoo!’s blo.gs, let other web-services subscribe to a list of blogs that have recently pinged them. Blog search engines can provide fresh results very quickly by polling only the newly-updated blogs. Similarly, aggregators use results from ping servers to tell subscribers which items on their subscription lists have fresh material. A few of the blog aggregators that can be pinged directly include: FeedBurner, Google Blog Search, IceRocket, and Technorati.

Bloggers have turned to services such as Ping-o-matic, which pings multiple proprietary ping servers. As the blogosphere has grown, other ping “services” have cropped up, such as Pingoat and BlogFlux Pinger.

Auto Pinging

I believe in free services.
you can customize you blogging software for auto pinging too. It means that whenever new post will arrive at your blog some servers will know and index that url automatically. How cool! I will discuss wordpress software here.

AutoPing Technorati Using WordPress

• Log in to your WordPress weblog.
• Select “Options” from the top menu.
• Select “Writing” from the sub-menu.
• The last option on the page is “Update Services.” Add Technorati’s ping server as a new line within the Update Services text box. http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
• If Ping-o-Matic (http://rpc.pingomatic.com/) appears in the text box you are configured to ping Technorati as well as many other ping locations via a relay service. We recommend pinging Technorati directly with every new post and update.

For Detail see Technorati configuration page.

Other Recommendations

In your Wordpress Blog - Admin - Options - Writing - ‘Update Services text box’ by default it is written.
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
You can modify it like;
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/

You can also manually post your blog URL to ping servers.

Recommended Powerful Pinging servers

http://www.technorati.com/ping
http://www.pingmyblog.com/
http://pingoat.com/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/ (Login Required + Blog URL must be added in blogflux directory before pinging)
http://www.pingoblog.com/
http://pingomatic.com/
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping
http://kping.com/
http://autopinger.com/

More

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://www.zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
http://www.blogsdominicanos.com/ping/
http://www.xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php
http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/ 

Thats why you donot need SEO or Google Submit (Google just accepts top level URL of your website and many submissions can lead to drop your website from Google Index) for blogs as they are SEO oriented and also can let other servers and blogs know about fresh content at your blog.

Thanks to wordpress and autopingers. No more worry for SEO. Relax, your website is being watched. Just keep posting.

Meanwhile also consider Technorati. All probloggers are connected to Technorati. Ping Technorati time to time.

Technorati is the recognized authority on what’s happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. Technorati search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”

Permalink facility, Customized Meta Tags, Tags Cloud, Categories, Widgets, Plugins, Pings, Trackbacks, Pingbacks, Recent Posts, Related Posts are the useful and powerful features of blogs which make them useful, unique, popular and ultimate weblog source.

Useful Information Resource

http://www.instant-info-online.com/wordpress-compressed-all-inclusive-ping-list.html
http://www.xmlrpc.com/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services

While you post, don’t forget to check allow pings check box under allow comments from discussion bix.
Please share if you know other pinging servers. I am lovin’ it.

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Gravatars - Global Avatars - Post Online Identity in Comments

Wether you are a blogger or not, Sometimes you post comments for posts in websites. How about posting your personal or company identity avator with your posts.
It too easy and simple procedure to follow.

Go to the website.
http://site.gravatar.com
Create account. Confirm account by provided email. Upload 80×80 pixels avatar image. Assign avatar to email and you are done.
Now when you will post any comment anywhere online, if webmaster has that facility than your identity avator will appear besides your comment.
Avator is associated with your assigned email address. So you have to post same email address while posting comment.

For example:
http://javedkhalil.com/personalBlog/focused-cat/#comment-16

Cool eh!!

Global Avators

A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?

An avatar or gravatar is an icon, or representation, of a user in a shared virtual reality, such as a forum, chat, website, or any other form of online community in which the user(s) wish to have something to distinguish themselves from other users. Gravatars make it possible for a person to have one avatar across the entire web. Avatars are usually an 80px by 80px image that the user will create themselves.

A Gravatar is essentially the same thing, but they are all hosted on a single server and are called up by encrypting the users’ email address via the MD5 algorithm. So instead of having one avatar on one forum you visit, and another at a blog you visit, you could have the same avatar at both.

Signing up for a gravatar.com account is FREE, and all that’s required is your email address. Once you’ve signed up you can upload your avatar image and soon after you’ll start seeing it on gravatar enabled weblogs!

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Wordpress Post Writing Advanced Features

New bloggers find some difficulties sometimes for these expert mode posting facilities offered by wordpress. I thought that we might share information relating to Slug, Drafts, Excerpt, Trackback, Permalinks, Pings, Time stamps to know these powerful functionalities more. Here these are.

What is post slug

To set the name of the post to be used in the permalinks use post slug feature. The name can include only numbers, letters and hyphens. This is where WordPress will “clean up” your post title to create a link, if you are using Permalinks. The commas, quotes, apostrophes, and other non-HTML favorable characters are changed and a dash is put between each word. If your title is “My Site - Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid”, it will be cleaned up to be “my-site-heres-lookin-at-you-kid” as the title. You can manually change this, maybe shortening it to “my-site-lookin-at-you-kid”.

Your Drafts

Drafts are posts that have been saved rather than published. If you have posts you have written and saved, thereby creating a Draft, they will be listed above the Write Post title. Click on the title link to open that posts’ Write Post edit screen, edit the post, and when you are ready, click Publish and it will be released to your site and to the world.

Excerpt

An Excerpt is a summary or brief teaser of your posts featured on the front page of your site as well as on the category, archives, and search non-single post pages. WordPress handles Post Excerpts in two ways. One is by an explicit excerpt and the other is through the use of the Quicktag button more. If you want to have a summary of the post show, rather than the first paragraph or so, write the summary of your post in the excerpt field. If you have changed the index.php template file to display the Excerpt instead of the full Content of a post, WordPress will automatically use the first 55 words of your post as the Excerpt or up until the use of the More Quicktag mark. If you use an Explicit Excerpt, this will be used no matter what.

Send Trackbacks To

Trackbacks let other blogs know you’ve referenced one of their articles. To send trackbacks from this post, enter the URI or website addresses in the box, separating each one by a space.

Edit Time Stamp

By default, at the time the post is saved, that will be the date and time of the post within the database. To change this, click the checkbox and change the date and time information. All posts dated in the future will not appear on the site until that time has passed. If you wish to write posts that will automatically appear on your schedule, set the date and time here.

Permalinks

Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to refer to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. Especially when they are used to link to individual postings, once a story is posted, the URL to it should be permanent, and never change. Hence.. permalink.

More details can be found at Wordpress Docs Section

Tips and Information about these from expert readers will be appreciated.

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