Using the right blog ping services will get your blog post found by major blog search engines such as Google and Technorati in a matter of minutes.
I have been using WordPress for about 2 years now. All this time, I left it to WordPress default settings to get my latest blog post updated with the major blog directories and blog search engines.
However, I didn’t realize that every time I save a published blog post, a ping is sent to http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ and this may cause ping spam or sping. So I installed the Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger to ensure that it will only ping once when I published my post and will not ping again when I edit and save the post.
So far, I found http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ very effective. In additional, I added http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to make sure that Google pinger server is updated with my latest post.
Here’s the step-by-step guide to verify that you have http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ in place and also add http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
WordPress 2.5 and above
- At the Dashboard, click settings then select Writing
- Scroll down to find the section Update Services, you should see http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ in the box
- Add http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to the line below http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
- Click Save Changes
Caution: Don’t use blogflux ping server, it is not working.
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Ditto what Mata said; I couldn’t find a way to disable the automated Wordpress pingomatic update and it was driving me nuts! Luckily, I found this post on google!
Hey gary and rio… Thanks for your usefull posting here. This is exactly information i need. Best of you. Thanks
Gary is right. Pingomatic like a parasit in our blog. But i have some solution. I install “no self ping” plugin is my blog. Just search in google this plugin. You will find it. After install that plugin, Try to make a post again to your blog and then ping your blog using pingomatic. You can see that there is no “Cowboy” messege again
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Hope this can help you
This ping service like a parasit in our blog. When i remove this pingomatic.com ping service and then try to ping manually in pingomatic, there alwaya a messege … Slow Down Cowboy… This make me confuse enough because i don’t want my blog url get black listed. Have you an idea how to prevant this problem…??? Hope that you help me. Sorry For My Bad English because i only can speak english a little.
Thanks and regards
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