One ping (service) to rule them all: Ping-O-Matic

Ping-o-Matic is now not only a HTML form-based service that you can use to notify multiple sites of your new weblog entry. This weblog entry let us in on the new ping URL http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ that you can use to replace the long list of URLs you’re currently pinging everytime you make a new weblog entry.

Screenshot of MT ping form section


This means no more waiting for your weblog software (be it Movable Type, WordPress, or something else) as it pings multiple services.

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Dave's Gravatar

That’s awesome, I updated my weblog to use that, I appreciate the post =D

Posted by: Dave on May 24, 2004 12am

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Patrick O'Keefe - pokeefe.com's Gravatar

Ping-o-Matic!
Just found a service that allows you to ping multiple sites with your new blog entry with just a click. I had previously not been pinging anything (that I know of) but I may start now.

Posted by: Patrick O'Keefe - pokeefe.com on May 24, 2004 12am

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Photo Matt's Gravatar

Ping Movable Type
How to ping Ping-o-Matic in Movable Type. Nice looking blog too.

Posted by: Photo Matt on May 24, 2004 1am

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Cheah Chu Yeow's Gravatar

Yup it is an awesome service. I found out about it when I installed WordPress 1.2 (which is awesome as well, but moving from Movable Type is a chore).

Posted by: Cheah Chu Yeow on May 24, 2004 1am

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Scott Johnson's Gravatar

Great tip! Do you know exactly which sites the RPC link pings? I know that it pings a “subset” of the Ping-O-Matic sites, but I haven’t found any further info on that topic.

Posted by: Scott Johnson on May 24, 2004 2am

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Chris Owens's Gravatar

Scott,

The RPC link currently pings 7 services:

Weblogs.com
Blo.gs
Technorati
MyYahoo!
Blogrolling
BlogChatter
PubSub.com

Hope this helps.

Posted by: Chris Owens on May 24, 2004 4am

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BOK's Gravatar

Keeps on failing from my (Dutch) blog though…

Posted by: BOK on May 26, 2004 5pm

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A Frog in the Valley's Gravatar

Une rafale mitraillée à défaut de salves de canon…
Encore une salade de morceaux de html qui traînaient dans comme draft dans l’éditeur de billets de NetNewsWire. Plus ou moins organisés, plus ou moins disparates. Les morceaux passés dates ont déjà ét&eac…

Posted by: A Frog in the Valley on June 15, 2004 8am

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