Blog and Ping. It is what the blogging myth was built upon. There was a day prior to 2004 that one could post a blog every 5 minutes and ping a number of web services and they would get almost instant Google love. The blog would get indexed along with tons of duplicate content (post page, archives, permalinks, etc) . The madness had to end as SEO's pressed posts thru automation machines that spewed out utter junk just to get some juice. Well actually lots of juice. Then the hammer fell as these ping services would not play along anymore and the engines got smart enough to not respect the blog and ping thing.It still works but not as dramatically, and more reasonably. Meaning if you post like two or three times a day they will trust you more than if you "sping" every 5 minutes. So what is it specifically? and why does it matter today? When you post a blog you can list ping services into your blog set-up and your blog software will do the rest. This picture below is actually this post and how I set up the ping services in TypePad. This screen is my editing screen for this very post.
Many use Word Press and in the current version of WP you will navigate to your settings>Writing and then your screen should be similar. Most blog packages are similar and should have a space to place this list. Some service platforms that do not have this feature should be pinging from their server. If they do not, then your blog is at a disadvantage. Here are the services to copy and paste. They change from time to time and is not at all worth obsessing over. So long as you have a good mix.
List of Ping Services
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
How Does Blog and Ping Work?
So what actually happens is that when you post a new article, your blog software will ring the alert button at the ping service so that they are aware of your new material. Since Google sends it's spiders into these ping services what happens is that Google now knows your post exists and sends its spider into your site.
One work around if you do not have the ability to ping automatically is to take your post and run it through pingomatic.com
