Ping-O-Matic is a great free service which “The WordPress Foundation” created to allow millions of pings a day from blogs to ping/notify “Blog Search Engines and Services” like My Yahoo, Google Blog Search, Feed Burner, and over 20 services which you can pick to ping from when your blog has been updated with new content, so you can get indexed on those search engines and services to get more traffic faster.
According to Ping-O-Matic’s website they ping the most important Search Engines and Services to tell them your website has been updated. You do not have to own a WordPress blog to use Ping-O-Matic. Ping-O-Matic works for Blogspot, Typepad, Tumblr, Drupal, Joomla, Xanga, Live Journal and other blogging platforms.
Ping-O-Matic is a lot better then using those search engine submission forms and services since you do not have to provide an E-mail address, pay anything, type in a captcha code, and confirm your e-mail address to prove you are a human and not a spam bot. All you have to do is fill out the name of your blog, and your blogs link address to ping more then 20 Search Engines and Services related to blogging that your blog has been updated with new content.
If you own a WordPress blog, WordPress automatically pings Ping-O-Matic when you post new content to your blog according to the settings for Writing in WordPress Dashboard.
Ping-O-Matic is easy to use. You just need to fill out two text boxes and one optional text box on the Ping-O-matic website. The three text boxes are your blogs title, homepage link, and RSS URL which is optional . Click the “Check all” link or pick individual services and search engines to ping. Lastly, you click the “Send Pings” button.
What I like about Ping-O-Matic is I do not have to sign up for an account, or use an e-mail to use the service, so there is no risk of getting unwanted spam or newsletters because you forgot to opt-out of the newsletter check box.
I use Ping-O-Matic to ping blog search engines and services when I update my Blogspot blog, Squidoo lense, Drupal website, and other blog sites.
After you use Ping-o-matic to ping blog search engines and services to notify them you update your blog. You can bookmark your results page, so all you have to do is visit your Ping-O-Matic results page from your bookmarks menu in Internet Explorer, FireFox, Chrome, and other web browser when you post new content on your blog to quickly notify Ping-O-Matic that your blog has been updated. I like to put the bookmark for Ping-O-Matic in my Bookmarks Toolbar in Google Chrome.
Ping-O-Matic can help you bring in more traffic for your blog by notifying blog search engines, and services that you updated your blog with new content. The Search Engines and services will now crawl and index your blog for new content after you pinged them.
Start using Ping-O-Matic today by visiting : PingoMatic.com
For more information and news about Ping-O-Matic, read their blog at blog.pingomatic.com/
I recommend blogspot-ping.com because is the only Web service which offers a completely automatic ping service for Blogger
Cool, I check out blogspot-ping.com, and add it to my Blogspot blog at PcTutorial.info since the setup does not look too hard. Thanks for the link, Fernando Reich!
Hi Johnson, Is there a google chrome or firefox extension for ping-o-matic? I would like to be able to just ping a site that I have open in my browser. Could you create one?
Hi Larry, there is no Ping-O-Matic plugin that I know of, and I don’t know how to make browser plug-ins, but I hope someone makes one.
I believe after you ping your site you can bookmark it, and just launch it from your bookmarks. According to the pingomatic ping summary.
Example http://pingomatic.com/ping/?title=PcTutorial.info+I+Computer+Electronics+Technology+Blog+&blogurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pctutorial.info%2F&rssurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FJohnsonYipsComputerSupportAndTrendsBlog%3Fformat%3Dxml&chk_weblogscom=on&chk_blogs=on&chk_feedburner=on&chk_syndic8=on&chk_newsgator=on&chk_myyahoo=on&chk_pubsubcom=on&chk_blogdigger=on&chk_blogstreet=on&chk_weblogalot=on&chk_newsisfree=on&chk_topicexchange=on&chk_google=on&chk_tailrank=on&chk_postrank=on&chk_skygrid=on&chk_collecta=on&chk_superfeedr=on&chk_rubhub=on&chk_blogshares=on
If you use WordPress, Pingomatic automatically pings your blog when you make a post or edit a blog. I’m not sure about Blogspot, or Tumblr, but there might be a way to automate your pings to pingomatic in other blogging software.
Try this Johhny, I have it working for me in both Firefox and Google Chrome.
Bookmark a page, any page and place it in your bookmarks toolbar. Right click on the bookmark, and remove the url, past in this javascript to replace the url:
javascript:location.href=’http://pingomatic.com/ping/?title=’+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+’&blogurl=’+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+’&chk_weblogscom=on&chk_blogs=on&chk_feedburner=on&chk_syndic8=on&chk_newsgator=on&chk_myyahoo=on&chk_pubsubcom=on&chk_blogdigger=on&chk_blogstreet=on&chk_weblogalot=on&chk_newsisfree=on&chk_topicexchange=on&chk_google=on&chk_tailrank=on&chk_postrank=on&chk_skygrid=on&chk_collecta=on&chk_superfeedr=on&chk_audioweblogs=on&chk_rubhub=on&chk_geourl=on&chk_a2b=on&chk_blogshares=on’
Then change the name of the bookmark to ‘Ping-O-Matic, or Ping, or anything you like.
Now any page you have open in your browser, you can just click the ping button in your toolbar, and you ping the page. This is very easy way to ping your backlinks.
Try it, it works for me.
Thanks, Larry for sharing the useful boomarklet tip. I give it a try.
Bookmark a page, any page and place it in your bookmarks toolbar. Right click on the bookmark, and remove the url, past in this javascript to replace the url:
javascript:location.href=’http://pingomatic.com/ping/?title=’+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+’&blogurl=’+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+’&chk_weblogscom=on&chk_blogs=on&chk_feedburner=on&chk_syndic8=on&chk_newsgator=on&chk_myyahoo=on&chk_pubsubcom=on&chk_blogdigger=on&chk_blogstreet=on&chk_weblogalot=on&chk_newsisfree=on&chk_topicexchange=on&chk_google=on&chk_tailrank=on&chk_postrank=on&chk_skygrid=on&chk_collecta=on&chk_superfeedr=on&chk_audioweblogs=on&chk_rubhub=on&chk_geourl=on&chk_a2b=on&chk_blogshares=on’
Then change the name of the bookmark to ‘Ping-O-Matic, or Ping, or anything you like.
I never forget to use pingomatic bookmarklet after link building is done.