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Sending Ping Notifications After Posting

When sending a new or edited post to your weblog, MarsEdit can send “pings” to sites such as technorati.com, and newsgator.com.

What are pings? A ping is a message from MarsEdit that informs an indexing service that your weblog has updated. Some services have a list of the most-recently-updated weblogs, or maintain a searchable index of weblog content.

Many weblog systems have built-in support for pings, so it may not be necessary to use MarsEdit's ping functionality.

Pinging behavior is configured for each of your weblogs.

  1. Select the weblog you want to configure from the Weblogs list in the main window.
  2. Click the gear button below the list, and select Edit Settings.
  3. Click the Pings tab.
  4. Check the checkboxes of services which you want to ping.

You can add a URL by clicking the + button below the list. The URL you specify must conform to the Weblogs.com XML-RPC Interface for pinging services.