One of the many great things about using the wordpress blogging platform is its ability to ping all the available Blog Ping Services around the web which in turn help you get your posts indexed in Google quickly.

In a rush? Go directly to the full list

BUT, there have been loads and loads of these services created other the years and many of them have now disappeared or changed their URLS, which has resulted in there being great big lists of services people are using that mostly contain URLS that do not exist! When I started checking out the blog ping services I was pinging I was shocked to learn that most of them never worked!

I have compiled my full list of working services below and have also included my original full list with those that work for me and those that do not. Additionally I have categorized those that did not work by the error messages I got from them for those that want to try them out for themselves encase any of them have now started working again (it is also possible that there was a problem my end with some of these, although they were tested on various blogs for a couple of weeks).

About My Blog Ping Service Lists

I have been building up this blog ping services URL collection for some time now, some came from the materials supplied by the free NinetyDayChallenge.net website (highly recommended for beginners trying to make money from blogging) put to together by Daniel Turner and Marc Lindsay of plrpro.com, others came from the mega list in Maria Reyes’s post (the site was hacked and the post does not exist anymore) and some are from one of my tweeter friends Penny Butler.

I was able to verify which services were working using the WordPress Maxblogpress Ping Optimizer plug-in, with is one of my favorite plugins on my Top WordPress Plugins List.

I’m continually looking for new URLs and will try and keep this post up-to-date as much as possible, if you find any sites that are not on these lists or are but from your experience need to be moved to the do work or do not work lists, please let me know in a comment so I can update the list if needed, thanks.

My Complete Successful Blog Ping Service List:

Note that from time to time I do find that some of these do not work, however most of the time they do and you always get a number that work whatever happens.

My Complete list (those that work for me and those that do not):

The Ones That Gave Me Errors:

- Error message: “parse error. not well formed”

- Error message: “transport error – could not open socket: 0 Success”

- Error message: “transport error – HTTP status code was not 200”

- Error message: “transport error – could not open socket: 110 Connection timed out”

- Error message: “El ping no es válido porque tu bitácora no figura en el directorio de bitacoras.com, pero puedes darte de alta manualmente en http://bitacoras.com. Gracias por interesarte.”

Note: This error message means that in order to ping this service you need to have sign up at the URL mentioned in the message, however unless your site content was in Spanish I don’t suppose it would be a good idea

Stopped The Rest Of The List Form Pinging!

The following sites when added to my ping list in wordpress for whatever reason always prevented the rest of the sites in the list after them from pinging. It might have been something to do with my set up, but I did try them with 2 different ping plugins as well as different blogs, so I don’t know. Additionally each one on their own did not work for me anyway.

I hope these Blog Ping Service lists are useful to you, once again if you find any more ping services that could be added to the list or you find some of the services within the not working lists do work for you, please let me know in a comment below so i can update this post. Thank you.

If blogging is all new to you, you may or may not have heard of the many blog ping service websites yet. Either way this post should explain to you all you need to know about them as well as why and how you should use them.

What is pinging all about?

Basically when your blog pings pinging services it’s notifying them of new content on your blog. After receiving the ping these sites normally list your site somewhere on theirs and as a lot of these sites are pretty big and well link to from other sites, the Google search engine generally visits them often and finds the links back your site, follows them and indexes your new pages.

Why should I use them?

I wasn’t blogging around the time these sites first came out, so I can’t comment, but It is said by many that the links you could get from these services helped your Google rankings quite a bit in the beginning, however they very quickly got over used by spammers and alike and so these days the links back to your site carry little value, i.e. they are very weak votes for your site in the eyes of Google.

Never the less, it’s still worth pinging Blog Ping Services as they do still help to get you indexed in Google fast. I’ve often started a new blog and found it index in Google within days before I’ve even started to promote it in any other way! Plus the fact it’s totally automated by your wordpress blog, so there’s nothing for you to do once you’ve set up your list of services.

How do I set up automatic pinging in my WordPress blog?

If you are using WordPress for your blogging you will find in your admin under settings/writing that at the bottom of the page you have a box which you can use to input the URLs of different blog ping services. Once you have done this your blog will automatically ping these services every time you post content. You can find my Working List Of Blog Ping Service URLs In This Post.

Taking full control of my WordPress blogs pinging

There are various plugins for WordPress you can use to enhance your blogs pinging functionalities and ultimately give you more control. The two that I have used are MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer and Smart Update Pinger, the latter has not been updated since 2006 and is very basic so I use maxblogpress ping optimizer which has a lot of great features, in fact it is one of my favorite plugins on my Top WordPress Blog Plugins List.