Best Pingback service

[gelsi]

Hi I've been using pingfarm.com for notifying Google of new backlinks to my sites but I don't think it's been notifying them. Has anybody got any better choices?
Thanks

 

[becool]

I'm interested in the responses you get to your question. I didn't realize pinging services are still in existence or otherwise widely used. My earlier research on the topic has always led me to conclude that if a link isn't getting indexed it, in many instances, isn't a quality link. Nevertheless, I have had many links that I thought were solid or semi-solid that have never actually gotten indexed. I've also always been concerned about the possibility that pinging services may leave a footprint. I similarly always figured that a quality second tier (link to the link) would probably be better for boosting the likelihood of indexing.

What type of links are you trying to get indexed?

 

[Ryuzaki]

I didn't realize pinging services are still in existence or otherwise widely used.

and

Has anybody got any better choices?

If you log into Wordpress and go to Settings > Reading and look at the bottom, you'll find Update Services:

All Wordpress.org installations come with Pingomatic as the only ping service, but that's all installations, meaning it's not only still in existence but used by the majority of websites. I'm not sure about other CMS's but I'd suspect bigger ones like Drupal and Joomla have something similar going on.

You can add more there if you want but it's not really necessary. I'd say that Google crawls this thing non-stop to find entry points for crawling.

 

[gelsi]

From your response you clearly have more experience at this than me. I read an article by Charles Floate on setting up local service, he advocated pinging to get indexed faster, one of the four services he recommended was pingfarm.com. I ping everything, forum posts, page updates, whenever I leave a backlink I ping the url. It seems legit to me I can't see why Google would frown upon it.

 

[Samwise89]

It seems legit to me I can't see why Google would frown upon it.

Me too. Every Wordpress site on the net (and more) are pinging. It's not going to hurt you. But I wouldn't keep re-pinging hoping that Google will suddenly be convinced something they don't want to index is indexable because they crawled it again. It might be noindex or the robots.txt might say not to crawl it. And you don't need to ping your own site really, although Wordpress sets it up that way. If you submit your sitemap to Search Console they know when there's new content to crawl.

 

[sublimedriver]

Here is a list I found on the web and I put in the spot Ryuzaki mentioned for all my wordpress sites...

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://audiorpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogpeople.net/ping
http://blogsearch.google.ae/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.be/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.bg/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.ca/ping/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.ch/ping/RPC2
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://mod-pubsub.org/knapps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping
http://www.blogoon.net/ping
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogroots.com/tbpopuli.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/knapps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast