Which blog pinging service do you use? Do you know what one is? If you blog, a pinging service is one great way to drive traffic to your site by getting the word out. Here’s a run down of services that are available.
What is a blog pinging service?
First of all, you need to know what a ping is. There are many meanings depending on the context, but all have roughly the same basic principle. In blogging, a ping is when you notify another website that you have updated your blog. The primary places that you would do this with are sites that act as blog tracking services or news headline aggregators. Technorati is one good example.
Now that you know what a ping is (or now that you’re thoroughly confused about it), on to blog pinging services… It would be to your blog’s benefit to let every tracker and news alert service know that you have new content. But to ping each of them would take forev… well, a really long time.
Recommended blog pinging services
Here’s where pinging services come in. In a nutshell, you can ping multiple sites with one click and one submit. There are many blog pinging services available, but here are a few services that are the cream of the crop.
- Pingoat
- Pingoat is the one to watch. Many people have started migrating from other services to use this service because the improved speeds as well as the large list of sites it can ping. In addition to standard sites, you can specify options for pinging non-English sites and specialty sites.
- Ping-O-Matic
- This is one of the first (if not the first) ping services written by the WordPress lead developer. Pingomatic is also one of the most popular. Because of their popularity, they have outgrown servers and have been suffering some serious down time and speed issues. They have, however, received donated hardware to improve things. They have also made a number of performance improvements for their manual ping service. Even with all the improvements, Matt says that “Performance is nice, but availability is more important.”
- http://pings.ws/
- The features that make this ping service unique are the added ability to add trackbacks, comments, and counters to blogs. This is a nice service for those that do not have these features built into their blog.
- Pong
- This is the only desktop pinging utility. I haven’t downloaded this one yet, but it apparently is much faster than any of the web-based services. And I’m sure it is. Where the web-based services are serving multiple people, Pong is dedicated to you. This is an excellent choice for those that do not have automatic pinging capabilities built into their blog software.
Which service do you use? I would love for you to share what you use and why you like it so much. Thanks!
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