Everything about Blogs and Blogging
What is Blog and Ping?
Blog & Ping is a process where you have a blog setup, make a post and it communicates with these available authority type sites to let them know you have updated your blog. Ping services exist to inform clients and search engines that a blog has been updated. Pinging posts can raise your over-all visibility on the web and draw new customers in. 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. Pingomatic and Pingoat are two examples of a free service that will automatically submit pings to a variety of services.
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.
Blog and Ping is a term that is applied to systems that utilize blog and ping (short for pingback) to deliver content to other sites. The entire purpose for blog and ping is to attract search engines to your site and let them spider (the post you've just made) and most likely the rest of your site on their own. The idea with blog and ping is to link back to other product related sites from a blog and get those sites indexed and ranked quickly and prominently.
 How to Blog and Ping
As obvious as it is, you need a blog to "blog and ping". During its inception, blog and ping was introduced in a sort of manual kind of way. Today however, most of the process is fully automated, readily provided with each blogging software available out there.
Enough said,  this website has an excellent comprehensive tutorial on how you can put blog and ping into practice using Blogger and Yahoo as an example. This tutorial is quite labour intensive, and is solely intended to show you what and how blog and ping is all about.
The chapters in the above mentioned tutorial include:-
- Chapter 1: Creating Your Blog 13
- Chapter 2: Making Your Blog Settings Count 22
- Chapter 3: Creating a Yahoo Account 31
- Chapter 4: Yahoo and Your Blog RSS Feed 36
- Chapter 5: Blog This! 43
- Chapter 6: Pinging Yahoo 49
- Chapter 7: Pinging Other Search Engines 54
- Chapter 8: Using Business Blogs Instead of Websites 65
- Chapter 9: Tips and Tricks 86
- Appendix 1 - Blogging Submission Sites 96
- Appendix 2 - Weblog Providers 99
- Appendix 3 - Photo Blog Software 104
Read the tutorial now ...
Do take note that this tutorial's theories and practical implementation of blog and ping can be specific to only Blogger and Yahoo. Certain other blogging platforms such as Wordpress and TypePad (and many others) might involve different set of approaches and final implementation in order it to work. Some freely available blogging software such as Wordpress for example, has an option where "Ping Lists" can be inserted so that each posts made will trigger an announcement to the list that you've updated your blog.
In other words, certain level of automation has been included in such software to ease the whole blog and ping process. Usually a default ping service such as Pingomatic will be used as a default option, but you can always add in more to expand your level of exposure you want to obtain.
Do take note that this "flexibility" of adding your own set of ping list causes vulnerability spots for people to spam these services. Having said that, do use it with some sense of responsibility.
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Many blog authoring tools automatically ping one or more servers each time the blogger creates a new post (or updates an old one.) |
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The Ping List
- http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
- http://api.feedster.com/ping
- http://api.moreover.com/ping
- http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
- http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
- http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/
- http://coreblog.org/ping/
- http://ping.blo.gs/
- http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
- http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
- http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
- http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
- http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
- http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
- http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
- http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
- http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
- http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
- http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
- http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
- http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
- http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
Other sites with their own ping list
- Wikipedia Ping List
- Dailyblogtips
- Seofeed
- Jonlee
Manual Pings (Ping Services)
- Pingomatic
- Pingoat
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Warning! The more ping addresses you have in your blog, the slower your blog will be after posting each post. Certain ping servives such as PINGOMATIC and PINGOAT are "all in one" ping services which help you to ping the most popular sites out there. |
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Ping Spam
The use of ping servers to direct attention to recent blog posts has led to a rash of ping spam or sping, which attempts to direct readers to web pages that are not, in fact, recent blog posts. Examples:
- Product vendors who use a weblog-like format to post product ads, meaningless batches of Google keywords, etc.
- Software vendors, who sell scripts that make automated "weblog postings" every hour around the clock.
Creators of ping spam and/or spam blogs may hope to benefit by creating pages to turn up in web searches for popular keywords. Typically, an individual spam post links to some external page that displays Google ads or offers a product for sale.
Other Resources
- Dave Winer inaugurates and explains blog pinging.
- Cameron Marlow on weblog ping systems
- Weblogs Multi Pingging
- John Keegan on ping history
- Online Blog Ping Tool
- Console Blog Pinger for Linux
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