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.

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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.