Being a pretty new blogger myself, I am just learning how to leverage my blog as a marketing tool.  I’ve heard of pings and pingbacks myself, but never really knew what they were for.

If you already know why you are here, click below to download my updated ping list.

The Updated Wordpress Ping List  

So here’s the skinny….

When you post a new article to your blog, there is function (in Wordpress and I’m sure many others) where it automatically sends a message out to various blog directories letting them know of your new post.  That’s a Ping. I don’t need to tell you that this is great for traffic.

By default, there is exactly 1 pingback service that Wordpress includes in the default install.  There are however, many more places that you can notify.  I compiled my list from 2 places, and I take NO credit for discovering any of these pings location.

The first group came from Wordpress themselves. Their list is here.

The second group came from Mat7.com.  His list is here.  This is a great site with lots of useful resources for N00bs like me.  I actually came across his site from his youtube ping tutorial that you can find here.  Informative, AND he has a fancy British accent which means you HAVE to believe what he is saying.

So what I did was compiled a list of both, mushed em together, and made them available for you to download.  The video will show you exactly how to go about implementing the new pingbacks in Wordpress.