When blogging, you need to notify the search engines that you’ve updated your blog, and here comes the value of the ping list. This list allows you to notify the engines themselves rather than wait for them to come along to your site. Since most of my websites are now wordpress based, pinging comes extremely handy.
I originally got my ping list from Brandon’s SEO blog at SEOFeed.com, but since then have looked at additional resources, and added some of my own to the mix. Here is my current ping list:
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/
http://coreblog.org/ping
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://mod-pubsub.org/knapps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
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.blogroots.com/tbpopuli.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/knapps/blogchatter/ping.php
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://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
I have been thinking about buying the pricey SEO Elite for some time now since I had read only positive reviews. Just recently got around to doing my own research, and found some useful free alternatives mentioned on seobook.com:
BacklinkWatch is a web-based tool that shows the page rank and anchor text of inbound links for free.
This is another web-based tool that compares your site’s link profile with the sites that rank in the top 10.
Tattler and Backlink Analyzer are both downloadable tools that provide backlink information for free. This is primarily the reason I was interested in SEO Elite, and since all of the tools mentioned above are free, I think I’ll try them out first.
No TagsI joined the Firefox boat kind of late - I really resisted joining. I was very happy with Internet Explorer until the new version started crashing on me all the time in the middle of my work. I finally decided to try Firefox and I am truly amazed at the capability of this browser.
First of all, I think it is a must have if you have kids. Countless times I have stepped away and my 1 yr old has come and shut down my computer. Thankfully, if a firefox browser is not closed properly, it asks you to restore the session. It remembers all the browser windows that were open which is such a total lifesaver!
Plus the totally amazing plugins. With the 30 Day Challenge, we were asked to install some handy plugins and here they are:
Firebug - useful to debug web page errors
I’ll write more about each as I start to use it extensively.
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