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Case for Ping-O-Matic
Filed under: Asides | November 22nd, 2004
Okay you’re blogging or writing a weblogging tool, you can ping 41 services today and who knows how many tomorrow, or just lock in rpc.pingomatic.com and worry about more important things. Also I wouldn’t recommend pinging all of those services indiscriminately as some are for specific niches (blogs in German or Japanese for example) that your blog might not fit into. Don’t pingspam. (8)
Geof F. Morris | November 22nd, 2004 @ 10:10 am
Amen. I remember when I wrote up a plugin to ping Wondergeeks.net and then saw, a while later, TrackBacks picking up on the ping. I didn’t really think about how I hadn’t really clarfied what WG was—it’s a cheeseball portal for my friends, which I don’t run, for those folks too lazy to have/use newsreaders—and was afraid that WG was going to get mercilessly pinged. [Of course, it doesn't matter; if WG doesn't know that you exist, your pings mean nothing to it.] But still.
Ste Grainer | November 22nd, 2004 @ 11:16 am
Maybe I’ve missed something, but is there a way to automatically ping from your weblog without pinging ALL of the services? It would be nice to automatically ping a few of the major ones without having to worry about pinging some of the more specific services.
Elliott Back | November 22nd, 2004 @ 11:45 am
*devil’s advocate*
Is Ping-o-matic just for English speakers?
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michel | November 22nd, 2004 @ 3:54 pm
Elliot: counter argument, are ping.cocolog-nifty.com and ping.bloggers.jp for English-speaking blogs?
Felixe | November 22nd, 2004 @ 5:14 pm
Same question as Ste Grainer, as I understand strong pinging is the opposite to pingspam. I would love to only ping sites in my language.
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