@AndysGoodeLife asked on Twitter this morning:
“You had in your *Blackbook* a URL for setting up ping services… any chance you have that on the top of your head?”
I realized that it would be a good post because I couldn’t remember off the top of my head what I’d linked to in the Authority Black Book. It made me turn to Google to see what was up in the Wordpress ping list world, and suffice it to say, we need an update!
All the posts on Wordpress ping lists are pretty dated and the instructions for using them are super geeky.
What’s a “Ping List?”
Wordpress comes with a small, default list of sites to “ping” when you make a post. It’s kind of like tapping someone on the shoulder and saying “Hey, I have something new for you to check out.” Google and others camp out on such sites to find new content. Plus you can ping Google directly whenever you post by including them in your ping list as well.
To find out what/who you are pinging now, just go into your admin area and, under “Settings” find “Writing Settings.” At the bottom of that page you will see “Update Services” and a short list of default places you are pinging when you post to your blog.
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