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Pingoat and Updating Blog Communities

Written by Neil Galloway

If you have been blogging for a little while you will be aware of the various blog community sites. They rank blogs, show summaries for them, and provide various other information that they specialize in.

I am registered with Technorati, Feedburner, and BlogMad. There are tons of them out there.

One of the biggest hassles is to tell them that you have updated your blog when you make a change. If you are registered with a lot of them, it can be time consuming to do it on each one. You can find plugins that might help you do this or if you understand web programming you can write this yourself.

Ash from NewThink.net suggested a web service that automates this the other day. I shouldn't say it fully automates, but it makes it really simple. It is called Pingoat. You enter your blog name, url, and xml feed into the form and pick the services you want to ping that you have updated.

When you submit that page, it takes you to another one that shows you the results of the various blog services it pings. From one page you can update all the services you want. Check out the screenshot below of all the services you can choose to automatically ping.

After the first time you have pinged, you can bookmark the ping results page so that you just have to go to your bookmark whenever you want. One click and you have pinged all the services you want.

If you are wondering what blog services you can register with, this is a good place to see what is out there and to check it out.

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Category: Blogging

2 Comments

Ash Christopher Says:
2007-03-19 19:50:12
Also, if you have a recent version of wordpress (I am not actually sure what blogging software you are using) there is an option to enter update services.

These services are automatically pinged when you submit a new article. They can be found under t

Neil Says:
2007-03-19 21:22:12
That would be so handy. To tell you the truth, I wrote this site myself from scratch in PHP. To keep myself interested in the beginning I needed a programming side to this site. Of course now I'm more interested in content, so I might try to migrate it