NetFxCafe

If a blog pings in a forest, and no one is around to hear it…

So after several posts over a week or so, I rather expected to easily find these posts showing up in Google’s Blog Search.

Having worked with WordPress before, I had a working understanding of the built in pinging it does to pingomatic…

and I assumed that all of these services somehow fed off of one another. So when I was unable to find my blog listed, I did some digging… and found that there are some interesting questions about all of this business.

First off - there are LOTS of very old blog posts on this topic, so I tried to filter through those. I did find this entry helpful: Battling pingomatic, Technorati, and the other XML-RPC ping services…

The more I read, and the more I tested and tried different things, the more I decided to give another service a shot at things - so I am now pointing my feeds through to FeedBurner, and using their built in PingShot service.

Here’s a really good overview of the PingShot service - http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/publishers/pingshot.

All in all, I have been very pleased with FeedBurner in the past, so I am going into this with high expectations. If nothing else - I at least expect it to WORK consistently, and be able to test the results.

Now that Google owns FeedBurner, I am also interested in learning more about how they are integrating other Google services. For example, I see now that they have adsense for feeds as an option. I was unable to work with it at this time due to adsense apparently being down for maintenance… so, I’ll try it later, and will report back when I have more info.

1) Yes! The PingShot service seems to work quite well. Withing a few minutes, I was able to find this post in the change file at Weblog.

2) I think I misunderstood the FeedBurner / adsense integration feature. This isn’t ads in RSS feeds, but rather - seems to be another way to ad adsense ads to your site’s content. Just thought I would clarify.