Hey, I don’t want to moan … but if my pings to Technorati don’t get spotted, and it doesn’t (apparently) spider my site, even after manual pinging and double-checking that pings work via RedAlt’s Pingomation service, that’s a problem. I’ve been through the WordPress forums, double-checked the pinging, and double-checked the settings. Consider this a test post. Email to technorati support is next. I like those guys, so this is not a casual whinge. Oh yes, I’ve been through the W3C Validator checking too, and cleaned things up on that front. Oh yes, I’ve also found a posting that comments how too many default ping services can cause a side-effect, so I’ve reduced it just one: Ping-o-matic. What gives?
[UPDATE: feedvalidator.org barfs on my rss2 feed, line 1, despite it being generated identically to the rss0.92 feed; so I'm certain this is correlated. Cannot crack this, trawled around the forums, FAQs, and am on to the support teams at WordPress and Technorati]
April 28, 2006 at 9:44 am
Marc-
As I mentioned in an email, I’ve got fed up with ping not working properly in my blog…however, what I didn’t say was that I effectively leave the task up to Feedburner, by promoting my blog via a feed relay at http://feeds.feedburner.com/ouseful
This will also provide me with feed address continuity if I have to move my blog for any reason (ie I can move the blog and still punlish it via feedburner
tony