What is a ping?
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I am trying the “pingoat” thing that was mentioned earlier. Again…probably a silly question….I’m not very “blog-savvy” just yet. But, how often in a day should you do that? Once? Twice? Is it the more the better?
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There was, as far as I can see, no problem with the WordPress feed. The problem was that the blog listing site that you’re talking about had no Internet access for several hours and nobody who posted during that time got listed. I don’t know of any way to prevent such a thing from happening in the future except securing Denmark’s Internet access from attack or accident. You could send them an email asking what to do in the future, but I don’t know what they could tell you. It sounds like a very unusual blip in the blogosphere.
If it’s your own internet connection that you’re thinking of, as long as the post got made it will have been pinged, barring weird failures at Pingomatic. To make doubly sure, use an alternate service like Pingoat and ping immediately after making a post. Then, if your Internet goes down, it doesn’t matter because the pings have been registered and the blog post, after all, resides on WordPress servers. It’s live even if you are not.
Ping only after you update. Repeated pings when you haven’t updated only annoy the services and might get you considered spam.
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Thank you raincoaster. I have written them and I am looking into it. And as you say: It was an very unusual blip not just in the blogosphere, but in Denmark as well.
But if I find a perfect solution, I will return to the thread and let everyone know what to do in such a case. :-D
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