How should I ping?
Posted Jan 26, 2004 in Blogging.
I have been manually pinging weblogs.com using the form provided, but I am uncertain as to which URI I am supposed to send.
The main page associated with my weblog is http://jessey.net/blog/. I also have an RSS 2.0 feed at http://jessey.net/blog/rss.xml, an Atom 0.3 feed at http://jessey.net/blog/atom.xml, and I currently mirror the main blog page on my home page at http://jessey.net/, though that is not a permanent fixture.
Up until recently I had been sending a ping for all of them, except the Atom feed which only just went up. Last week, I switched over to just pinging with http://jessey.net/blog/ and now I seem to be ignored by blo.gs, for example.
Can anyone shed some light as to which URI I should send? I would be most grateful.
Comments
Don't ping anyone, Simon. I don't and everything is just fine and dandy. BTW, just tried their online form. It worked just fine, but for me it is a one time usage. Don't really need them...
Posted by David Collantes on Jan 27, 2004.
I have always understood that it is "good manners" to ping weblogs.com or blo.gs so that your readers using aggregators and blogrolls can be informed that a post has been made. Although I don't use these facilities myself, it does help to "promote" myself, which massages my ego :D
Posted by Simon Jessey on Jan 27, 2004.
You should ping your main blog address, I believe.
Posted by Matt on Jan 28, 2004.
As an experiment, I tried do just that the other day. I noticed that only a few blogrolls were updated accordingly, because many have bookmarked the jessey.net homepage instead.
The way I see it, I have two options. Change my front page, or have it permanently mirror the main blog page. I favor the former option, and I'll probably begin work on a new home page soon.
I'd still be grateful for more opinions on the matter.
Posted by Simon Jessey on Jan 28, 2004.