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http://pingoat.com/

In order to let people know that you’re in the blogosphere, you have to “ping” blog-aggregator sites to let people know you’re on the net and you’ve just updated your blog. Up until now, I’ve been using Ping-O-Matic to update about 25+ sites at once, to let them know I’ve just added a post to my blog. It works wonders, usually with a spike of fifty to over 200+ unique hits within the hour that I ping with that service. However, last night, connections were being universally refused to the venerable site—either overloaded, or being upgraded, or being DDoS’d by some mischievous script kiddies, &c.—so I Googled “pingomatic down” to see if anyone had said anything about it.

Sure enough, there’s an entire section on Technorati dedicated to Pingomatic, and at the top are a few articles (to which I’ve trackbacked, incidentally, for their helpfulness) referencing several alternatives to Pingomatic. Among these are King Ping, Feed Shark, and Pingoat.

The last of these, Pingoat, has the largest collection of pingable blog aggregators, both English and non-English, that I’ve ever seen. I posted that last one at 03:30 Eastern Time (GMT -0500), and accumulated nearly 100 unique hits almost instantly, including domains from halfway around the globe. I’ll be checking back with the old favorite sometimes, but Pingoat has just replaced Ping-O-Matic in my most-visited bookmarks.

http://pingoat.com/

In order to let people know that you’re in the blogosphere, you have to “ping” blog-aggregator sites to let people know you’re on the net and you’ve just updated your blog. Up until now, I’ve been using Ping-O-Matic to update about 25+ sites at once, to let them know I’ve just added a post to my blog. It works wonders, usually with a spike of fifty to over 200+ unique hits within the hour that I ping with that service. However, last night, connections were being universally refused to the venerable site—either overloaded, or being upgraded, or being DDoS’d by some mischievous script kiddies, &c.—so I Googled “pingomatic down” to see if anyone had said anything about it.

Sure enough, there’s an entire section on Technorati dedicated to Pingomatic, and at the top are a few articles (to which I’ve trackbacked, incidentally, for their helpfulness) referencing several alternatives to Pingomatic. Among these are King Ping, Feed Shark, and Pingoat.

The last of these, Pingoat, has the largest collection of pingable blog aggregators, both English and non-English, that I’ve ever seen. I posted that last one at 03:30 Eastern Time (GMT -0500), and accumulated nearly 100 unique hits almost instantly, including domains from halfway around the globe. I’ll be checking back with the old favorite sometimes, but Pingoat has just replaced Ping-O-Matic in my most-visited bookmarks.