How to configure ping servers on Windows Live Writer?

Windows Live Writer, developed by Microsoft, is a desktop blog-publishing application that is part of the Windows Live range of products. It’s WYSIWYG blogging tool that can be setup to blog to multi blogging platforms including the popular ones such as Blogger and WordPress.

Windows Live Writer makes blogging a breeze. You can add photos and videos, format, and publish to most blogging platforms including WordPress, Blogger and more. Windows Live Writer comes with a cool feature of sending pings to various web directories. Whenever you will publish a new post, Windows Live Writer will send ping to provided list of servers. It is important for bloggers as your blog will be known to the ping directories and help find your blog more easily.

How to configure Windows Live Writer ping servers?

• Go to Tools -> Options -> Ping Servers
• Enable this feature  and enter the URLs of ping servers.
• Copy and paste the following servers or just a few if you like and add it to the list. It should be one server per line

List of ping servers:

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://ping.feedburner.com/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2   
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/   
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://xmlrpc.bloggernetz.de/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://api.my.yahoo.co.jp/RPC2
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping
http://ping.wordblog.de/
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://blogsearch.google.de/ping/RPC2
http://ping.namaan.net/rpc
http://rpc.technorati.jp/rpc/ping
http://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
http://rpc.bloggerei.de/ping/

Source of the links above: http://www.gentlesource.com/news/freshly-tested-list-of-ping-servers-43.html