After blogging on how to save a step with Ping-o-Matic and use it for multiple blogs, Denise Wakeman and Arnoud alerted me Pingoat, a competing ping service.
So far, it’s been a great experience.
ss Blog ConsulFirst off, it’s much faster than Ping-o-Matic. It pings about 50
different services, categorized into General, Non-English &
Special.
The site is clean and fast-loading. It’s got a blog, a community forum, and even a Google sitemap generator, if you’re so inclined.
But perhaps best of all, it appears that Kailash Nadh, the site owner and a recent high school graduate from Kerala, India, is adamant about keeping spam blogs from using his service! He regularly blacklists blogs that appear to be automated, with no original content.
He even has a section of his Pingoat forum
dedicated to people who have been blacklisted feel they have been
wrongly accused. It makes for great reading, even when you should have
gone to bed hours ago. Here’s a typical rejection slip:
First i would like to welcome you to the pingoat.com community forums.
After reviewing your blog, and reading your dispute statement in detail, we have come to this conclusion:
Your blog will remain blacklisted. your blog is very blatantly fed via
a content generator, however if this is truly not the case, this would
be required to be proven on your end, it may not be fed via a content
generator, however it strongly appears as so, please re-evaluate the
blog and adjust whats neededOur suggestion to getting your blog removed from our blacklist:
If it is spam and you have no intention upon creating your own
unique content, then i am sorry to tell you, that pingoat will not
allow you to ping the blogAnd last but not least, stop spamming
That’s just great stuff.
pingoat, the blogger best friend
Pingoat is an alternative to Ping-o-matic. Both are intented to notify a number of services that keep track of weblogs. Such notifications are called “pings” (nothing to do with TCP/IP ping). Pingoat has a bigger number of services and …
Trackback by Web Design Blog — September 13, 2005 @ 2:01 pm
Maybe I am missing something here but I know that services like Blog Explosion use the Pingoat script to offer a blog pinging service. I would like to put pingoat which appears very good on my site or a similar script on my site Blog Smart Resources. But I looked all over the Pingoat site and can’t find where they offer the script. I guess I will have to write Kailash and see if he does offer the script.
Comment by Keith P Stieneke — September 25, 2005 @ 8:48 am
I’ve had no idea Pingoat has a forum and a blog. Thanks for the great resource!
Mike
Comment by Blog Design Blog — October 4, 2005 @ 10:39 pm