How to Ping Your Blog?

Why do you need ping services? There are many answers for that question. First, it may be that you want everybody to know about your newly posted article(s). Second, by using ping services your blog/website might be indexing right away from search engines. Thus it may be in term increasing your web traffic. If you use self-hosted WordPress blog, then you may follow the steps below to implement ping services.

• Login to your self-hosted WordPress dashboard and click on Settings/Writing.

• Scroll all the way down, copy and paste the following list into the box under Update Services, and save it.
  http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

• After that WordPress will automatically ping your blog whenever you publish your new post.

For the WordPress.com bloggers, your blog has already built in with ping service Ping-O-Matic as your default ping service. If you want to manually ping your blog using ping services other than those offered in Ping-O-Matic, then you may find pingmyblog.com useful. It allows you to selectively choose your choices of ping services to submit.

The above list of ping services is working as of this post is being written. However, if you find any of them is no longer working, please inform me. I’ll appreciate that.

Would like to ping your blog using the above list? Please leave a comment below.

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Free Online Logo Generators

A simple and powerful way to help your customers to recognize your company is using a logo. It also brings personal touches to your website. If you like to design your own logo like me, then you may find this post useful. I searched the Internet and found some Free and useful online logo design tools and listed them below for your benefits. You can choose one or two to design your own logo the way you like. So feel free to browse and have fun with them.

• Cool Text: Logo and Graphics Generator – This logo and graphics generator allow you to create whatever kinds of images you like and fill out the form to create your customized logo in just minutes.

• Web 2.0 Logo Creator Online. Design and create Free logos –  Use this simple logo creator to get your own logo. Then save it to your PC.

• Free Logo Design Engine | Logo Maker | Logo Generator – This website allows you to create your own logo and buttons for Free.

• Logo Generator – your logo is just a click away – This website provides logo templates of all kinds including text only, icons, animals, artists/craftsmen, and many more that you can use to design your own logos.

• Text Based Logo Generator – This is a really simple logo generator tool. You just type your text in the text field, pick a style, and create your own text based logo.

• Cool Archive – Free Logo Generator – This free tool allows you to create your logo in minutes. You can save your images as .jpg or .gif files all in your own preference.

• Design An Instant Free Logo Online! – This website lists six logo types that you can choose from and create your own logo with your preferred choice.

Alternatively you can use Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 to create your own logo for your website. If you use Microsoft PowerPoint 2007,  then go to Home tab, in the Slides group, you need to click Layout and then Blank. But if you use Microsoft PowerPoint 2003, go to Format menu, then click on Slide Layout.

Is this post helpful? Would you like to use these free logo tools to create your own logo? Why or why not? Please leave a comment below.