Pingoat, gone to the slaughter house?

Pin­goat has been one of the most exten­sively used free ping­ing ser­vices on the web. For those of us, that haven’t used it before — it’s a sim­ple tool that allows web­mas­ters to ‘ping’ or ‘notify’ search engines and other ser­vices that you got new con­tent! It’s a sim­ple idea but one that has great results.

It’s all well and swell, till the day Pin­goat was dragged to the slaugh­ter house!

Many blog­gers say that it has no pur­pose and other argue oth­er­wise. Everyone’s enti­tled to their opin­ions, so I’m going to give you mine. In short and sim­ple words; Ping­ing has brought about a lot of great ben­e­fits to our blog. Hands down.

When we first launched Blo­gus­sion index­ing took some time, but after we started ping­ing the big engines like Google and Tech­no­rati — we would see many more pages both indexed/cached. Obvi­ously it’s not as visu­ally vis­i­ble as per­haps a PageR­ank gone up a notch, but the effects can be seen indirectly.

Well, Pin­goat has been serv­ing its pur­pose in the blog­ging world — till it ran­domly crashed and had an ugly notice board say­ing “We’re cur­rently doing sys­tem main­te­nance. Come back later.” It was very ugly, black text on a white back­ground ~ not even a col­or­ful picture!

It has been “down for main­te­nance” for weeks now, and shows no signs of return­ing any time soon — or ever for that mat­ter. Has the era of single-handedly knock­ing on the doors of big search engines, from one click of a but­ton left us for ever? Well, yes and no. Pin­goat was one, if not THE best tool for the job. Ping­ing a whole bunch of use­ful nodes — but it’s pre­ma­ture slaugh­ter is not the end of the world

There are sev­eral other use­ful tools that accom­plish the same job, such as Ping-o-Matic and King­Ping or you can do it your­self ping­ing each ser­vice found here, but that’s not very time-effect. If you try them out, you can see it’s just not the same as our Pingoat.

Till we see the ulti­mate ping­ing ser­vice return, we’ll have to do with the cou­ple I’ve men­tioned above — but stick with Blo­gus­sion as we’ll be the first to spread the news when our beloved ping­ing  ser­vice returns!

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