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Ping-o-Matic! Review

Ping-o-Matic! is a service that pings various other blog services. “Pinging” these services notifies them that there has been an update to the blog that “pinged”. How each service handles the ping is different. Some simply create a list a recently updated blogs, others create connections between blogs. Using ping-o-matic is an EASY way to get exposure on several key RSS service sites. The sites pinged by ping-o-matic include:

Weblogs.com
Blo.gs
Technorati
Feed Burner
Syndic8
NewsGator
Feedster
My Yahoo!
PubSub.com
Blogdigger
BlogRolling
BlogStreet
Moreover
Weblogalot
Audio.Weblogs
RubHub
A2B GeoLocation
BlogShares

Using ping-o-matic is simple. WordPress users automatically use ping-o-matic (ping-o-matic was created by two of the WordPress developers). On the Options/Writing tab on the Admin Screen, there is a field at the bottom labeled: Update Services. Inside this box the following URL is listed: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/. Keep that URL there and every time a new post is entered, all the above services will be notified.

Users of other blog software will have to check their respective tools to see if there is a place to update services. If there is, simply add the http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ URL to the list.

Alternatively, there is a form on the ping-o-matic website that can be used to enter blog information.

Using Ping-o-matic is much easier than notifying each site manually or having multiple URL’s entered in the Update Services box.