How to Check that Your WordPress Blog is Pinging

April 2, 2008 – 7:23 pm

This is the last post in the series we’ve been doing about WordPress and pinging blog aggregation services. I’ve been scouting around really desperately testing various pieces of kit to be able to prove, mainly to myself, that my clients blogs are pinging effectively – this has been ok on servers we run but on [...]

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3 sites you should ping to maximise your blog visbility

April 1, 2008 – 12:42 pm

Years ago, in a dimly lit living room Peter Hoggan started talking to me about blog and ping as a way of increasing website visibility. To be honest it was late, I’d just driven home from the other side of the country and all I wanted to do was get a pint or ten. But [...]

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What to do if Wordpress blog pings are not working?

March 30, 2008 – 2:35 pm

Last week I posted about the problems I was having with wordpress and how it wasn’t pinging. Richie asked in the comments how you can get it working and in an effort to be useful I’ve put together a quick tips list of things to check for and do to get everything working (aswell as [...]

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WordPress not pinging

March 27, 2008 – 2:55 pm

I’ve spent the last couple of hours trying to work out why in the name of all that is holy my blog aint pinging services such as pingomatic and pingoat. And after a little while I found that my problem was that my hosting company had SafeMode turned On.
Apparently the outgoing request file was about [...]

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