Automate Your WordPress Pinging

My last post, Submitting Your Blog to RSS & Blog Directories, talked about automatically notifying blog directories whenever you post on your site. This is a great way to get the word out there!

WordPress actually has this functionality built into its inner code. Not only that, but your posts are automatically sent to one of the most popular blog directories, pingomatic.com.

So, the good news is that you are already doing without knowing it! Congratulations! The not-so-good news is that you are not letting even MORE directories know about your post! Rest assured – I will help you out with that one.

First, I am going to suggest that you install a plugin to help with this. This is not truly necessary, but it helps (and I will point out where and why).

Step 1 – install and activate the plugin, cbnet Ping Optimizer. You can find this when you search when adding a new plug-in. Remember to activate it.
Step 2 – Under Settings, you will see a new entry for cbnet Ping Optimizer. Click on the link to edit the settings of your new plugin.

Step 3 – You will see the lonely entry I mentioned before for, pingomatic.com. Rather than submit to only this site, add the following list to your list (note – you will see this list includes the one that is already there – include it only once):

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2/
http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC/
http://blogsearch.google.ae/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.be/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.bg/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.ca/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.ch/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.cl/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.co.cr/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.co.hu/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.co.id/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.co.il/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.co.jp/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.co.ma/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.co.nz/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.co.th/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.co.uk/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.co.ve/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.co.za/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.ar/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.au/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.br/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.co/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.do/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.mx/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.my/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.pe/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.sa/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.sg/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.tr/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.tw/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.ua/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.uy/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com.vn/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.de/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.es/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.fi/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.fr/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.gr/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.hr/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.ie/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.jp/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.lt/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.nl/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.pl/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.pt/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.ro/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.ru/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.se/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.sk/ping/RPC2/
http://blogsearch.google.us/ping/RPC2/
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://feedsky.com/api/RPC2/
http://hamo-search.com/ping.php/
http://ping.bitacoras.com/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogoon.net/
http://ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2/
http://ping.fc2.com/
http://ping.feedburner.com/
http://ping.kutsulog.net/
http://ping.myblog.jp/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php/
http://ping.snap.com/ping/RPC2/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2/
http://rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2/
http://wasalive.com/ping/
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2/
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php/

Remember to click Save Settings.

You are all set! The next time you create a post, all of these directories will be notified of your new content!

If you are still reading this and you remember one of of the things I mentioned was that this plug in is NOT required, let me tell you why! While still in your dashboard, check out Settings / Writing area. Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see a section, Update Services. All the entries we put in the cbnet Ping Optimizer are also listed here. If you don’t want to install the plugin, you can simply paste in the list above into this area and the same thing will occur – everything you post, everyone gets notified.

The reason I like the plugin is that it keeps track of when the directories are updated and if any of them failed!

You can see from above that some of the entries failed. Not to worry… When I see the same servers failing every time I post (after about 7 posts), i will go in and delete it from the list. If it fails once, it may just mean that the server is down or something else is going on.

Let me know if you have any questions about this. I don’t want to write tooooooo much about this 😉