I blogged about this new ping service last week so thought I could come share it here. I have no connection - just thrilled to find something besides Pingomatic. When PingOMatic putters, sputters and times out - try Pingoat. It pings around 54 services - many more than Pingo and is fast as lighting! I get frustrated when I slave over my keyboard to get a quick blog out 1st thing in the AM and Pingomatic just putters because everyone is using it and it overloads. I was using ping.ws when Pingo bogged down but after trying this Pingoat - it's now my pinger of choice. SUPER FAST! http://www.pingoat.com While you are over there, they also have a Google sitemap generator. I was putting off trying to figure out how to do this until my new site was finished, plus it sounded complicated - but this makes it sound easy. Enjoy!