Ping that thing
As I was perusing my blogroll last night I noticed that several of my daily reads were showing that they hadn't posted anything in the past month.
I remembered a post that Kelley of suburban blight had written earlier regarding the same topic. I'd already set my blog to do this when I first moved over to MuNuviana and Movable Type and being the selfish SOB I am I figured most other folks had done the same (sorry I'm a geek and at times assume most others are too).
Then I walked through the to set it up in Movable Type steps and sent it to Harvey (as a belated blogiversary present) and a couple of other folks. They were appreciated so I figured I'd post it here also, spreading the gospel according to Kelley and Harvey so to speak.
When you log in to Movable Type, click Weblog Config. Then Click the Preferences Option. From there scroll down and make sure you're notifying blo.gs and weblogs.com when you update. In the Others box add the following lines if they aren't already there.http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
Note: The two sites mentioned above are the sites bare minimum sites I would recommend you ping.
In the extended entry Via Harvey Via Physics Geek, the ultimate ping list from Emily of How To Blog:
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
Yeah, blogrolling has been going wacko since sometime in November, I think it was. It isn't picking up Weblogs.com pings correctly most of the time. I ping blogrolling manually after ever new post. Been busting typepad to allow straight pinging of blogrolling. I used to write a bunch, then set up for future posting. No more.
Posted by: William Teach at June 23, 2005 03:34 PMTurns out mine wasn't updating on others sites. I added all of those. Thanks for the wisdom oh blog hero! :-)
Posted by: Sissy at June 25, 2005 09:28 PMMany thanks!
Posted by: Ted at June 25, 2005 11:41 PMJust got sent this link from Prochein Amy-thanks and I have updated my weblog config!
Posted by: Helen at June 26, 2005 04:35 AMCould you please remove the reference to the XML-RPC service on Blogbot.dk?
I don't know why it was added in the first place. The service is only available to users who have signed up in advance. Other users are blocked. In order to sign up, the blog must be written in Danish and meet certain other criteria. So I don't think it is appropriate to include in this list.
Currently I block several hits to the XML-RPC service per second. This is consuming quite a lot of resources on my little server.
Thanks in anticipation.
