Handy ping button for your firefox
When mass producing new pages or changing some content I like to send a ping to a bunch of update services to let them know that my page has been updated or there is some new content around. There are some pingers out there that require you to tick a bunch of boxes, enter your url and possibly even your email address. It just takes too much time. There is a pinger built into your wordpress blog but what if you need to ping an outside page like a new Squidoo lens you have just created. Here is how you can quickly create a ping button for your Firefox. Simply hit the button and your current page will get pinged.
Here is the javacode that you need:
javascript:location.href='http://pingomatic.com/ping/?
title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)
+'&blogurl='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)
+'&chk_weblogscom=on&chk_blogs=on&chk_technorati=on&chk_feedburner
=on&chk_syndic8=on&chk_newsgator=on&chk_myyahoo=on&chk_pubsubco
m=on&chk_blogdigger=on&chk_blogrolling=on&chk_blogstreet=on&chk_mo
reover=on&chk_weblogalot=on&chk_icerocket=on&chk_newsisfree=on&chk_
topicexchange=on&chk_google=on&chk_tailrank=on&chk_bloglines=on&chk
_aiderss=on&chk_skygrid=on&chk_audioweblogs=on&chk_rubhub=on&chk_
geourl=on&chk_a2b=on&chk_blogshares=on'
Right click on your bookmarks toolbar and create a new bookmark. Call it Ping or whatever you like. In location field copy and paste the javascript above and click on add. You are done! Navigate to the page you would like to ping and hit the button.
February 24th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Just wondering… are you a wickedfire member?
February 25th, 2009 at 4:33 am
does this javacode works with Firefox 3?
February 25th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
@ Shock Marketer
Nop
@ Free Short Url Redirection Service
Yes, it does.
February 25th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
That is one kick-ass FF button. Thanks.
February 26th, 2009 at 1:05 am
wow this is a great tip Ilia
and i’m using firefox 3 and its working perfectly fine here
Thanks Ilia for the nice technique to quickly ping
February 26th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Good one !! I hope to see SEO Toolbar and others make this simple bookmarklet a standard button in their toolbar
March 4th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Ilia, you are a legend! And at the ripe old age of 22, to boot! This is a cool follow up on your post regarding backlink development buffer circles. Am adding it to Firefox straight away!
March 5th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Good to see you contributing with your comments. I must say that I did not come up with the ping button so the credit should really go to somebody. However I don’t think they were using it to ping their web 2.0 properties on the large scale.
March 5th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Ilia
Great tip.
I just tried it for my Squidoo lens and got a:
SLOW DOWN COWBOY
Does Squidoo automatically ping when you update?
March 6th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Can’t seem to get the same result in Firefox 3.0.7. I can’t find the location field. Oh well. I’ll keep looking.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
If you click on the full screen when watching the video things should get clearer.
March 8th, 2009 at 5:46 am
Hello, just supr the “blank” after /ping/?
Thanks for your tips, but now pingomatic is hs? it’s run always for you?
March 8th, 2009 at 11:24 am
I don’t quite understand you there. Sorry…
March 9th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Sorry for my poor english
Pingomatic return always “slow down cow boy” since three days…
March 9th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
No problem Biloute, your English is fine.
A lot of people have been having the same problem including myself recently. You can try using a proxy because sometime Pingomatic stops people from abusing their service with excessive pinging.
March 9th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Great Tip Ilia…thanks for script.
Best
Arturo
March 9th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
yea thats right, i’m facing the same thing here, but it work fine with a proxy
I’m now addicted to it, each time when i make any web 2.0 property i use to ping it with just a click.
March 10th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Thanks for your answer
good continuation.
March 11th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Got it. I did not have the bookmark bar open. Now I’m good to go. Thanks again.
Dennis
DiD Publishing Inc.
March 12th, 2009 at 11:49 am
This is just what I was looking for.
September 29th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Thats a very neat trick that’s going to save us a whole load of time. Thanks for sharing!
December 6th, 2009 at 6:47 am
I’ve been going through the archives and found this post. Definitely a handy button to have on the ff toolbar. I am going to give it a try. Thank you for sharing with us.
August 21st, 2010 at 2:59 pm
This is awesome! I was searching for code on how to make a button for pingomatic like social marker. This saves a tun of time when you have a big list of url’s you want pinged.
September 19th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Just the code I was looking for.
September 8th, 2011 at 12:03 am
Wow.. it still works. thanks a lot.. This is exactly what I was looking for. It will save me a lot of time. And yes, it works with the latest version of Firefox.
Cheers,
Stu – Action Camera Reviews