{"id":573,"date":"2005-09-04T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-04T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/04\/one-click-blog-pinging-services-alternatives-to-pingomatic\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:14:33","slug":"one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging\/","title":{"rendered":"Pingomatic in 2026: Does Blog Pinging Still Work? (Better Alternatives Like IndexNow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2005, every blogger used <strong>Pingomatic<\/strong> to &#8220;ping&#8221; search engines and blog directories the moment a new post went live. Twenty years later, is pinging still worth it? Pingomatic still exists, but most of the services it used to notify are gone, and Google stopped accepting pings in 2023. Here&#8217;s what pinging does today, and the tools that actually get your new posts discovered faster in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-44047 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/pingomatic.jpg\" alt=\"Pingomatic ping service\" width=\"689\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/pingomatic.jpg 689w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/pingomatic-150x68.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/pingomatic-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick answer:<\/strong> Pingomatic still works and WordPress pings it automatically, but it no longer helps much with Google. To get new posts indexed faster, keep your XML sitemap up to date, use <strong>IndexNow<\/strong> for Bing and other engines, and use <strong>URL Inspection \u2192 Request indexing<\/strong> in Google Search Console for important pages.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af39012a9455\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"ez-toc-cssicon\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #1a202c;color:#1a202c\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #1a202c;color:#1a202c\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af39012a9455\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging\/#What_is_Pingomatic\" >What is Pingomatic?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging\/#Does_Pingomatic_still_work_in_2026\" >Does Pingomatic still work in 2026?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging\/#Pingomatic_alternatives_that_still_work\" >Pingomatic alternatives that still work<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging\/#Better_ways_to_get_new_posts_indexed_fast\" >Better ways to get new posts indexed fast<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging\/#1_IndexNow_for_Bing_Yandex_and_others\" >1. IndexNow (for Bing, Yandex and others)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging\/#2_Keep_your_XML_sitemap_up_to_date\" >2. Keep your XML sitemap up to date<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging\/#3_Request_indexing_in_Google_Search_Console\" >3. Request indexing in Google Search Console<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging\/#4_Link_to_new_posts_from_your_existing_pages\" >4. Link to new posts from your existing pages<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging\/#Frequently_asked_questions\" >Frequently asked questions<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging\/#Should_I_remove_Pingomatic_from_WordPress\" >Should I remove Pingomatic from WordPress?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging\/#Does_Google_use_Pingomatic_or_IndexNow\" >Does Google use Pingomatic or IndexNow?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging\/#Why_did_bloggers_ping_in_the_2000s\" >Why did bloggers ping in the 2000s?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/one-click-multiple-blog-services-pinging\/#How_often_should_I_ping\" >How often should I ping?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Pingomatic\"><\/span>What is Pingomatic?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pingomatic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ping-O-Matic<\/a> is a free service run by the WordPress Foundation. When you publish a post, your blog sends a small &#8220;ping&#8221; (an XML-RPC update notification) to Pingomatic, which passes it on to a list of blog search engines and feed services, telling them your site has new content to crawl.<\/p>\n<p>In the blogging boom of the 2000s, that list was long. When we first used it in March 2005, one click on Pingomatic&#8217;s form (enter your blog name and URL, tick the services and submit) notified Weblogs.com, Blo.gs, Technorati, FeedBurner, Syndic8, NewsGator, Feedster, My Yahoo!, PubSub, Blogdigger, BlogRolling, BlogStreet, Moreover and more. Blogroll services such as BlogRolling then moved freshly updated blogs to the top of readers&#8217; blogrolls, which brought real traffic. Pinging one service that forwarded to all the others also kept publishing fast, instead of WordPress waiting on a dozen slow servers.<\/p>\n<p>Most of those services have since shut down, and Pingomatic now lists only a couple of downstream services. You can still ping manually with the form on its homepage: enter your blog name, home page and optional RSS URL, choose services and click Send Pings.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Does_Pingomatic_still_work_in_2026\"><\/span>Does Pingomatic still work in 2026?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s still online and it&#8217;s still the default ping service in every WordPress install. You&#8217;ll find it under <strong>Settings \u2192 Writing \u2192 Update Services<\/strong>, where <code>http:\/\/rpc.pingomatic.com\/<\/code> is listed by default. There&#8217;s no harm in leaving it there.<\/p>\n<p>But it no longer makes much difference to search rankings or indexing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Google ignores pings.<\/strong> In June 2023 Google announced it was retiring its sitemap ping endpoint, and Google Blog Search closed years earlier. Google now finds new pages through links, sitemaps and its own crawl schedule.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Most blog directories are gone,<\/strong> so there are few services left to notify.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Long ping lists can do harm.<\/strong> Old advice to paste dozens of ping URLs into WordPress slows down publishing and sends pings to dead or spammy servers. Keep just Pingomatic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Pingomatic_alternatives_that_still_work\"><\/span>Pingomatic alternatives that still work<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Most of the ping tools in our original list (Pingoat, King Ping, Blogflux Pinger, Ping The Empire, Pingates and Autopinger) have closed. A few remain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ping.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ping.in<\/a><\/strong>: a manual multi-ping tool where you enter your blog URL and choose services.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/feedshark.brainbliss.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feed Shark<\/a><\/strong>: pings services and submits blogs, feeds and podcasts to directories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honestly, these add little in 2026. The methods below make a much bigger difference.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Better_ways_to_get_new_posts_indexed_fast\"><\/span>Better ways to get new posts indexed fast<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_IndexNow_for_Bing_Yandex_and_others\"><\/span>1. IndexNow (for Bing, Yandex and others)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexnow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IndexNow<\/a> is the modern replacement for pinging. When you publish or update a page, your site instantly notifies participating search engines, including <strong>Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam and Yep<\/strong>. Bing&#8217;s results also power other search tools, so it reaches more people than you might expect. Google doesn&#8217;t use IndexNow.<\/p>\n<p>On WordPress, Rank Math&#8217;s <strong>Instant Indexing<\/strong> module and the official IndexNow plugin set it up in a couple of clicks. Many hosting and CDN providers, such as Cloudflare, can also send IndexNow notifications automatically.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Keep_your_XML_sitemap_up_to_date\"><\/span>2. Keep your XML sitemap up to date<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Google reads the <strong>last modified date<\/strong> in your sitemap to decide which pages to recrawl. SEO plugins like Rank Math and Yoast generate and update sitemaps automatically. Submit your sitemap once in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, and they&#8217;ll keep checking it.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_Request_indexing_in_Google_Search_Console\"><\/span>3. Request indexing in Google Search Console<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>For a new or significantly updated page, open <strong>URL Inspection<\/strong> in Google Search Console, paste the URL and click <strong>Request indexing<\/strong>. There&#8217;s a daily limit of around 10 requests per site, so save it for your most important pages. See our list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2023\/01\/free-google-seo-tools\/\">free Google SEO tools<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_Link_to_new_posts_from_your_existing_pages\"><\/span>4. Link to new posts from your existing pages<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Search engines find new pages faster when they&#8217;re linked from pages that already get crawled often, such as your homepage, popular posts and category pages.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Frequently_asked_questions\"><\/span>Frequently asked questions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Should_I_remove_Pingomatic_from_WordPress\"><\/span>Should I remove Pingomatic from WordPress?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>No need. It&#8217;s harmless and lightweight. Just don&#8217;t add long lists of extra ping URLs.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Does_Google_use_Pingomatic_or_IndexNow\"><\/span>Does Google use Pingomatic or IndexNow?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>No. Google doesn&#8217;t act on pings or IndexNow. Use sitemaps, internal links and Search Console instead.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_did_bloggers_ping_in_the_2000s\"><\/span>Why did bloggers ping in the 2000s?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Pings told blog search engines like Technorati and blogroll services that you had a new post, so they listed you right away and moved you up readers&#8217; blogrolls. Most of those services have closed.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_often_should_I_ping\"><\/span>How often should I ping?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Only when you publish or meaningfully update a post. WordPress does this automatically. 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