To me blog and ping is just a nice way of describing spam blogging. Technically we are blogging (or writing) to a blog with a link to a web site we want to get indexed by the search engines and pinging to the major blog directories to tell them to visit my blog.What we’re hoping for is that the search engine spiders will follow the links in our blogs to index our desired web site.

For example, When I publish a new post in this WordPress blog, the WordPress blogging script automatically notifies the following site update services:

1470.net/api/ping
www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
api.feedster.com/ping
api.moreover.com/RPC2
api.moreover.com/ping
api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
bitacoras.net/ping
blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
blogmatcher.com/u.php
www.blogoole.com/ping/
www.blogoon.net/ping/
www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
www.blogsnow.com/ping
www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
bulkfeeds.net/rpc
coreblog.org/ping/
www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
ping.amagle.com/
ping.bitacoras.com
ping.blo.gs/
ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
ping.feedburner.com
ping.myblog.jp
ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
ping.weblogs.se/
www.popdex.com/addsite.php
rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
rpc.pingomatic.com/
rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
topicexchange.com/RPC2
www.weblogues.com/RPC/
xping.pubsub.com/ping/
xmlrpc.blogg.de/

To put it in plain English, we’re telling these site update services “Hey! Take a look at my blog! I just updated it with new content!”. For more about this, see Update Services in the WordPress Codex.

In my next few posts on blogging and pinging, I will review some of my old blog and ping posts at VincentRich.com and tell you why my old way of blogging and pinging just doesn’t work anymore and why blog generators can change all that.

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