Even the world’s best blog is nothing if no one can find it. Making sure your pages are indexed by search engines (and optimized for that purpose) is a good start, but you need to let some other guys know, too. Those guys are known as ping servers.

Basically, when you post a new article you “ping” these servers with the address (permalink) of your new post, they then schedule a crawl to include your new post in their database, which is then spidered by others, including search engines.

So, how do you do this? You can do it manually, or you can add a list of ping servers to your blogging engine (most engines support this).

Here’s my list:

• http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
• http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
• http://api.feedster.com/ping
• http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
• http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
• http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
• http://ping.blo.gs/
• http://ping.feedburner.com
• http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
• http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
• http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
• http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
• http://rpc.newsgator.com/
• http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
• http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
• http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
• http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
• http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
• http://ping.weblogs.se/
• http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
• http://coreblog.org/ping/
• http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
• http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
• http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
• http://ping.myblog.jp
• http://ping.bitacoras.com
• http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
• http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
• http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
• http://1470.net/api/ping
• http://bblog.com/ping.php
• http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
• http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
• http://api.moreover.com/ping
• http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
• http://bitacoras.net/ping
• http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
• http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
• https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
• http://ping.amagle.com/
• http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
• http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
• http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
• http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
• http://ping.blogg.de/
• http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
• http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
• http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
• http://rpc.britblog.com/
• http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
• http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
• http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
• http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
• http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
• http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
• http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
• http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
• http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
• http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
• http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
• http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
• http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
• http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
• http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
• http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
• http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
• http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
• http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
• http://bulkfeeds.net
• http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
• http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
• http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
• http://zing.zingfast.com
• http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
• http://www.catapings.com/ping.php
• http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi
• http://rpc.wpkeys.com
• http://rpc.britblog.com
• http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
• http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
• http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
• http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080
• http://rpc.pingomatic.com
• http://blogupdate.org/ping/
• http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2
• http://bitacoras.net/ping/
• http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
• http://euro.weblogs.com
• http://www.bitacoles.net/notificacio.php
• http://ping.blogoon.net/
• http://www.weblogues.com/ping/
• http://blo.gs/ping.php
• http://www.weblogalot.com/Ping/
• http://www.packetmonster.net/xmlrpc.php
• http://blogsearch.google.com/ping
• http://www.blogupdate.org/ping/
• http://blogupdate.org/sverige/ping/
• http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
• http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/RPC2/
• http://www.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
• http://pingoat.com/
• http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
• http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
• http://rpc.odiogo.com/ping/
• http://www.bloglines.com/ping/
• http://api.feedset.com/ping
• http://rpc.pingomatic.com/RPC2

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