Does anyone here use Pingomatic.com? It looks like a good meta-pinger and I have written a script for it, but is it stable and does it work ie ping the sites it says it will? Much easier to script it this way if it works. Any help appreciated
Yes, it has worked for me. But do not rely totally on pingomatic use others as well to buzz, feed burner has option for pinging. Lot of others which can be pinged directly are BulkFeeds, FeedBurner, Google Blog Search, IceRocket, Technorati, Yahoo and BlogBlogs. Try pingoat as well
If you're in wordpress the pingomatic is set by defaults which ping posts itself, however if you wish, you can use more services as mentioned by pushkar26.
Thanks for the replies. I am on Blogspot and have many blogs and want to write my own program to ping the main sites. I've dropped pingomatic since it wants you to wait a few minutes between pings and am sending REST message to Google Blogseach and rpc.weblogs.com for now. Would prefer to send REST messages since a little easier to code but eventually I will have to create my own xml-rpc client I think to get all the ping sites.
I have used it in the past but started using pingoat.com instead always thought that gave better results.