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What is King Ping?
History of King Ping
Why publicity?
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Creator
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What is King Ping?

King Ping is a web service that enables you to ping, to notify, 18 blog search engines. When you update your blog, or any web feeds (RSS or Atom), you want tell to the world that you just updated them. So it is what King Ping has been created for: to help you performing this task. Why do you need to ping these search engines? To increase your traffic! After you pinged them, your new content will be indexed in their database on the spot, ready to be read by other readers. If you do not ping them, then your content will not be indexed or only indexed much later.


History of King Ping

In June 2005, Ping-O-Matic expected some server problems for some days leaving the service unavailable. I needed to ping these blog search engine, I wanted to have my new content indexed in their databases. However, I was not able to do it via Ping-O-Matic.

So, an afternoon that it was down, I created my own pinging service. I knew that if I was not able to use Ping-O-Matic, many of my blog readers would not be able too. So I decided to put the service online to help my blogs reader pinging these search engines.

It gained instantly the attention of many people. Bloggers started to talk about it. So the service was born. Eventually Ping-O-Matic fixed their server problems, but I did not close the “Fred’s Pinging service”. Some people adopted it, so I could not close it.

Some days later, the Diva Marketing started a thread to find a new name to the service because she did not like the current one. So I gathered the names found by her readers and opened a pool with the names. Then King Ping was born.

Some weeks later, Sudar sent me an Ajax interface for the King Ping service. Then the second version saw the day.

It is where we currently are, the story will continue eventually.


Why publicity?

I included publicity in the second version of King Ping for only one reason: to find the money to migrate the service on a new server. King Ping is currently hosted on my blog's web server. However, the service is gaining in popularity and I will eventually need to put it on a new server. I do not want to make money from it; it is not the goal as you saw in the history of King Ping. If you have a problem with these ads, and want to leave me your feeling about it, contact me by email and we will discuss about the situation and listen at your point of view.


Donation

You want to contribute to the project a little more than with the ads? You like the service and want participate to it to help us to have access to a better web server to enhance the current service? Then you can make a donation via PayPal by clicking on that button:

How your donation will be use? It will be use to migrate the current service on a new web server. If we are able migrate it on a new server, we will be able to add new features, have a faster connection, a greater bandwidth and eventually to create a RPC service to enable our users to use the service without using the web interface.


Creator

King Ping was created by Frédérick Giasson. As you read in the history section, I created it to help my readers to have access to a pinging service when Ping-O-Matic expected some problems with their servers leaving the service unavailable.


Contributors


Expecting problems while using King Ping?

If you are expecting some problems while using the Ajax version of King Ping, please leave me an email with a screenshot of the problem and a small description. I will check it and try to resolve it. During that time, you will be able to use the old, non-Ajax, version of King Ping always available here.