There's been a lot of debate about update service lists and there is the famous 56-url list around on the net. But what is the verdict, do we need to ping all of those 56 services? Question 1) I am using Wordpress, and you know how when you publish you can expect the crawlers to be all over you within a few minutes? Well, after I added that massive list to my settings, you know what happened? NOTHING! I wasn't picked up by a single service! Sounds fishy to me. Either they think you're spamming, or Wordpress maybe can't handle it? (though there was no error message) So who do you think you need to ping to get the optimum coverage? Question 2) Is it wise to re-publish? Some of my posts have simply not appeared on Technorati, even though I specifically only pinged: http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://pingoat.com/ Is it wise to reset the post status to Draft and then re-publish the post with just Technorati in the Update Services setting in order to try to get crawled? And the questions remains - what is the optimum ping-list? markowe
Do we need to ping all 56 services? Answer = No. If you ping Technorati and weblogs that'll do the job. Better still set your blog to auto-ping every time it's updated. I don't even bother pinging any more - new posts get indexed by G within 2 or 3 days and Blogsearch within a few hours.
This is the ping list we use for the best speed of publishing / amount of exposure balance. Please note that zingfast is ours but it does send traffic and won't bog down your publishing. http://zing.zingfast.com http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/ http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping http://ping.blo.gs/ Cheers
Thanks for the ping list and the transparency Is there a feeling that Technorati is overloaded in some way, because I have to say again, I often have posts not indexed at all by Technorati (about 50/50)? m
Yes, I am pinging them direct (Technorati, for example), but I think pingomatic was in my list too. Does that mean that I am potentially "spamming" them, maybe and thus I am getting ignored...?
Heres my list http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 http://ping.feedburner.com http://api.feedster.com/ping.php http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2 http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud http://ping.blo.gs/ http://www.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 http://topicexchange.com/RPC2 http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/ http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/ Code (markup):
Thanks for this list. Weird, I am still having to manually ping Technorati every time - they are just not "answering the ping" otherwise - I have tried waiting hours, even days, and it was no good - on more than one occasion. But as soon as I ping manually the "spiders" come running. Could they be overloaded, or is something else the matter?