Ping Blogrolling.com Directly
My reads list is kept on blogrolling, and a good number of those reads ping weblogs.com, like I do. I get a nice little "newly posted!" pointer when that ping occurs.
Well, did. Problem was, my site has, for the last several months, been getting an error when it tried pinging weblogs.com. I don't know how many others have been having this problem, but I'm guessing a fair number, since weblogs.com is just getting overloaded, apparently.
Then I discovered that you can ping blogrolling directly, so no matter if weblogs.com gets your ping or not, everyone who has you on their blogrolling list can still see that you've updated.
Here's the link to blogrolling.com's faq on it: http://www.blogrolling.com/docs_ping.phtml#f1;
Or for lazy people like me, here's my shortened version how to do this in MT:
In your blog's configuration, go to Preferences and down to the Publicity / Remote Interfaces / TrackBack section. Under "Notify the following sites when I update my blog:"'s "Other" section, paste the following URL:
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
That's it. Now I'm right back up displaying the fact I post way too often.
August 18th, 2003 at 10:49 am
Hee, that's been around for a while - it's always fun to see people discover things like this.
August 18th, 2003 at 11:12 am
I found out about this recently, too. Know of any other URLs we can add to this?
August 18th, 2003 at 4:33 pm
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
August 18th, 2003 at 6:55 pm
I like your blog, very helpful and fun
August 19th, 2003 at 10:54 am
Ripper, thankyou
I seem to be the only one that didn't know their pinger url 
Thanks a billion, I was beginning to think it was just me who was having pinging problems.
August 20th, 2003 at 10:56 am
Like many of you I store my blog links with blogrolling.com, not only because of its simplicity and ease of…
August 20th, 2003 at 10:12 pm
Have you had any problems pinging weblogs.com? I have, and it was really starting to frustrate me. After all, if you can't ping them, then your blog isn't showing as…
August 28th, 2003 at 4:27 pm
So go read! Nice fresh Out Of Context hooha. Dunno about BatChat - check back later. We leave for Boise tomorrow and must take kitty to the boarding place this afternoon. No idea what time that'll put me in for chatting… I loved Christopher Walken da…
August 30th, 2003 at 8:03 pm
thanks for the tip!
I've been getting the same time-out errors for a while.