Blogging Basics – Letting People Know About Your Legal Blog

One of the first things I wanted to learn in WordPress is how to let people know that this site exists and update those sources with information about the articles here. What’s great is that WordPress provides one way to automatically do this whenever you blog: within the administration control panel, go to Options, then “Writing”. Down at the bottom, you’ll see an input box where you can enter “[tag]Update Services[/tag]“. These are sites that are automatically notified (or “[tag]pinged[/tag]“) when you write an article.

In a new blog installation, there’s usually one entry already there: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/. I’ve gathered a few more. They are:

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://rpc.newsgator.com/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://rpc.wpkeys.com/

http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud

http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

We’ll see how this feature adds to the promotional efforts behind this [tag]legal SEO blog[/tag]. More soon!

[tags]blogging basics, legal blog, letting people know about your blog, WordPress Update Services, pinging [/tags]

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