Pingoat is a web service developed by Kailash Nadh, that pings a number of blog ping servers like Technorati, using XML RPC. Currently, pingoat pings around sixty such services.

Technical details

Pingoat employs the XML RPC method for pinging the target servers. Unline the traditional pinging, pinging a weblog service is different. An XML RPC ping is usually a string in the xml format, which holds the data to be delivered. When it comes to blog pinging, the method webLogupdates.ping is employed, along with other custom methods.

Pingoat also supports on-the-fly generation of Google sitemaps with simultaneous upload to ftp server and ping Google.

See also

• Technorati

References

External links

• Pingoat website
• The Pingoat weblog