Pingoat

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

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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.

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