Is Your Ping List a Waste of Time?
For the past week or so, I have decided to go through my sites and find out whats working for me and whats not!
And one of the first things I found was *a lot* of the ping sites I had in my wordpress ping list where not working anymore.
So I decided to go through my big list of ping servers and find out what was working and whats wasn’t.
A couple of things jumped out straight away:
1. Both technorati and Yahoo.com are no longer accepting pings.
Technorati has this announcement on their website (http://technorati.com/ping/) and the yahoo server, that most of us use for ping is no longer active.
So I would suggest you edit your ping list and remove those two sites, and all variations of them.
Even two of the Google ping servers (.ie and .in no longer accept pings)
So after many days of testing sites, I have eventually come up with a ping list that now contains sites that work (ie: the domains are still valid, and the ping servers report something meaningful).
Out of my list of over 150 ping sites, I ended up with the following list of 83 servers:
| http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 |
| http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 |
| http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC |
| http://blogsearch.google.ae/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.be/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.bg/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.ca/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.ch/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.cl/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.co.cr/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.co.hu/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.co.id/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.co.il/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.co.jp/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.co.ma/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.co.nz/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.co.th/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.co.uk/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.co.ve/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.co.za/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.ar/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.au/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.br/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.co/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.do/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.mx/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.my/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.pe/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.sa/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.sg/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.tr/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.tw/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.ua/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.uy/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com.vn/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.de/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.es/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.fi/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.fr/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.gr/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.hr/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.ie/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.jp/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.lt/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.nl/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.pl/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.pt/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.ro/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.ru/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.se/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.sk/ping/RPC2 |
| http://blogsearch.google.us/ping/RPC2 |
| http://coreblog.org/ping/ |
| http://feedsky.com/api/RPC2 |
| http://hamo-search.com/ping.php |
| http://ping.bitacoras.com |
| http://ping.blo.gs/ |
| http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/ |
| http://ping.blogoon.net/ |
| http://ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2 |
| http://ping.fc2.com/ |
| http://ping.feedburner.com |
| http://ping.feedburner.com/ |
| http://ping.kutsulog.net/ |
| http://ping.myblog.jp/ |
| http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php |
| http://ping.snap.com/ping/RPC2 |
| http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php |
| http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php |
| http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2 |
| http://rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/ |
| http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/ |
| http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/ |
| http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping |
| http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2 |
| http://wasalive.com/ping/ |
| http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2 |
| http://www.blogoole.com/ping/ |
| http://www.blogoon.net/ping/ |
| http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/ |
| http://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php |
You can include Ping-O-matic.com if you wish, but I have found pingomatic to be unreliable at times, so I basically ignore it and post directly to the sites that matter.
February 19th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Hi Bruce, thanks for providing this up to date list. Just what I was looking for. Great stuff!
However, thought I would let you know I loaded it into Excel spreadsheet, sorted alphabetically, then used the Data>Remove Duplicates option and it removed several duplicate entries.
Also did you do any checking for duplicate pings, e.g. where rpc.pingomatic.com might already ping some of the entries in your list? Just asking.
Cheers
Jim
February 20th, 2010 at 11:06 am
Hi Jim,
Thanks for the heads up about duplicates, but maybe I’m going blind or something but I can’t see any. Even Excel reports that there are no duplicates..
So if you could tell me whcih one are duplicated, I’ll remove any errors.
Personally I have found pingomatic to be a somewhat of a problamatic service. I know others swear by it, so its just my personal opnion. So I have deliberatley left Pingomatic out of the list, but I cinclude it my own list just for completelness (if there is such as word)
thanks for the heads up
Bruce