ping

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.