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1. johngrant
   Member
   Oct 25, 2007, 6:58 PM

   The Technocrati page suggested that I have auto=pinging whenever I add a new blog entry. They provide directions on how to do that on WordPress:

   Ping Technorati using WordPress
   « All Technorati ping configurations

   Log in to your WordPress weblog.

   Select "Options" from the top menu.

   Select "Writing" from the sub-menu.

   The last option on the page is "Update Services." Add Technorati's ping server as a new line within the Update Services text box.
   http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

   If Ping-o-Matic (http://rpc.pingomatic.com/) appears in the text box you are configured to ping Technorati as well as many other ping locations via a relay service. We recommend pinging Technorati directly with every new post and update.

   I followed the instructions, but can't find "Update Services." Any suggestions?

2. thesacredpath
   Member
   Oct 25, 2007, 7:01 PM

   We don't have that option here at wordpress.com. They are referring to self-hosted blogs using the software downloaded from wordpress.org. If you are self-hosted, then you need to inquire over at http://wordpress.org/support since the software used here is different.

3. johngrant
   Member
   Oct 25, 2007, 7:23 PM

   Okay. Thanks a lot.

   Denny

4. thesacredpath
   Member
   Oct 25, 2007, 7:38 PM

   You're welcome and happy blogging.

5. jamesewelch
   Member
   Oct 25, 2007, 7:59 PM

   You can also just bookmark the ping page at technorati. Then click on your bookmark to automatically do a ping.

   Just click "Ping Us" link at bottom of technorati.com enter your URL, then click Ping, then bookmark the result page. If you bookmark the result page, you'll see your URL in the query string of the bookmark page's URL. When you click your bookmark, it will do another ping at technorati.

   Another good pinging service is google blogs:
   http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

   I don't know if this is included in the default wordpress.com automatic pinging services. I've been doing this by hand.

6. timethief
   Member
   Oct 25, 2007, 8:37 PM

   @jameswelch
   Could we please have your cooperation when it comes to these bloggers from wordpress.org? We do not provide support for any bloggers other than wordpress.com bloggers.

   When you answer questions they ask after they have already been directed to the correct support forum you can confuse future readers of these forum wp.com threads because wordpress.com and wordpress.org operate on different software and sometimes different answers apply. Once you note a blogger is referring to a wordpress.org blog in any wordpress.com forum thread has been directed to the correct forum please do not post additonal information, okay?

   In the case of wordpress.com every blog has pingomatic automatically pinging technorati and other services for us as soon as we publish a post. We cannot use the embed that was suggested above by the wordpress.org blogger. And do not need to as it's already built into our software wordpress.com software here. :)

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