I just found a new blog ping service. I’ve not used it but think I need to blog it first. Pingoat notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them.

Pingoat works exactly the same way as Pingomatic, but notify more services than Pingomatic, including non english services and special services. To use the service, go to Pingoat, type in your blog name and URL (not feed URL), select the services you want to ping and click Go Pingoat!

You can ping Pingoat using XML-RPC too, means you can have your weblog application do it automatically for each post.

I recommend that if you are using weblog software such as Movable Type or WordPress or ExpressionEngine, add http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2 to the list of service to ping for every post and disable Pingomatic (or even all others) to prevent redundancy.

Monitor Technorati, FeedBurner and other services closely to see if it works. I am going to report back if I find problems.

Visit Pingoat.