Distributing your blog posts across the blogosphere is an essential part of “getting noticed”. I have collated what is a pretty comprehensive list of ping services you should look to include in your ping list.

True you can ping an aggregated source (like pingomatic) and your posts should be picked up far and wide eventually.

But why wait?

Wouldn’ t you rather have your posts streak across the Internet sooner rather than later?

I know I would.

This blog is driven by Wordpress and I have just found out automatic pinging doesn’t necessarily take place using the update services facility. The Wordpress forums show an old bug (allegedly fixed) where ping URLs must end in a trailing slash.

So, I’ve added the slash to the list below and fingers crossed, this post should be pinged across the net very quickly indeed.

The “Full Ping List”:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://1470.net/api/ping/
http://api.feedster.com/ping/
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php/
http://api.moreover.com/ping/
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2/
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2/
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping/
http://bblog.com/ping.php/
http://bitacoras.net/ping/
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/
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/
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc/
http://ping.feedburner.com/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php/
http://ping.myblog.jp/
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://ping.blogg.de/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php/
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2/
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx/
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz/
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.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.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
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.rssfwd.com/xmlrpc/api/
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2/
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

All the best,
Tom

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Is “Tag and Ping” the next big thing?

I first got the heads up a couple of days ago from Jack Humphrey (of Powerlinking fame) on “Tag And Ping” (not to be confused with Tagged.com btw).

If you remember blog and ping and all the hype surrounding it last year, this seems to be the 2006 equivalent. The Internet Marketing community still seems largely unaware of the method (other than a select few) but given Sean Wu is about to unleash Tag And Ping - The Next Generation of Blog and Ping on the general public in a few short days, it will no doubt be a matter of months before the new system spreads like wildfire across the internet marketing community.

Like Blog and Ping, Tag and Ping will in all likelihood suffer from abuse but given folksonomies and social bookmarking are firmly establishing themselves on the internet with they myriad of services springing up, it is highly likely this technique is here to stay.

I have already updated this blog to reflect much of the advice dispensed by Sean (see the Technorati Tags, Directory Tags and Social Bookmarks at the end of each post) and look forward to seeing what happens with this - the internet’s next big thing.

All the best,
Tom
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Would you like a domain name which could potentially be worth thousands, maybe millions of dollars (all for the price of registration @ $8.95?)

I’ve been scanning blogs, forums the news and article directories for 2 months now and yesterday I found what I was looking for…

The news went public.

You may think all the great dot com domain names have been long since gone - and you’d be right - kind of…

On March 7th, Perry Marshall, Jonathan Mizel & Glenn Livingston released some information on a new technique to improve your advertising effectiveness. They witnessed stellar results.

They also asked their customers to refrain from telling all and sundry for obvious reasons. Well, the cat’s out of the bag now (I saw an article with the info published yesterda) and I have had this step-by-step eBook explaining what you need to do to get yourself a great domain name.

Waste time now and you can be sure your competitors will not - Get over to GrabACoffee.com for more info.

Happy domain name hunting

All the best,
Tom

A little while back I was researching some affiliate programs for the term “success”.

Using my old friend Google, the way I was researching in this particular instance was to
use the following search phrase:

This is quite a broad approach but it does get results. Anyway I looked through some of
the natural search listing results but my eye was caught by one advert in particular that SCREAMED at me.

Even though the advert was ranked about 5 or 6 on the listings, this advert has an excellent Click Through Rate (CTR).

The techniques employed by the advertiser are timeless, but not very many people
are adopting them.

Although this is a Google Adwords specific example, the same principles can be employed in all other forms of advertising to increase your response rates…

All the best,
Tom
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