March 20, 2004
Update Your Burned Feed Instantly
One of the advantages of using FeedBurner to create a burned feed is that we handle dealing with the bandwidth. So even if you have thousands of readers looking at your feed, FeedBurner caches your burned feed and checks back to your site to see if it needs to be refreshed once every half-hour or so.
While this is great for managing your bandwidth, it's possible that your readers might not see the latest and greatest version of your feed -- it might be up to 29 minutes "stale". So how can we balance the bandwidth savings with a frequent enough updating period? You can "ping" feedburner whenever your site is updated using the XML-RPC Ping mechanism.
Here's how it works with Movable Type: go to the "Weblog Config" tab and select the "Preferences" link. Scroll down to the "Publicity" section and where it says "Notify the following sites when I update my blog:" put "http://ping.feedburner.com" in the "Others:" textbox.
Now, whenever you add a new item, FeedBurner is notified instantly and your feed is re-burned with the new content.
For publishing engines other than Movable Type, there are different ways to accomplish the same thing. Please leave a comment here if you need help or can provide help with other tools.
Comments
Hi,
I'm using Greymatter blog software, which has no built-in ping function. I've tried to figure out how to do it, but it seems rather complicated to me.
Someone in a gm forum said he just uses a modified bookmark to ping a server. That would be fine to me. Do you know what he means and can you tell me how to modify the link?
Thanks a lot,
seb
Seb,
Please check out our entry entitled "Using Ping-o-Matic with FeedBurner" at http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/000672.html to create a bookmark that should do what you want.
Thanks!
Forgive me but I have not understood anything which you have written in the information you have provided.
What is it? What do I do with it? Is it meant for people like me? Or is it for those people who are more technically capable than I am? The latter probably is more likely the case.
Hi
I'm using Google's Blogger for my blog and can't find where I can add the code to auto ping feed burner when my log is updated.
Do I need to add the code to the template somewhere?
Thanks in advance
For those who are using the old MetaPhilter software, you can add it in the mp/config.php file either through direct editing or by launching mp/configure.php and finding the relevant setting.
geeklog 1.3.x can ping Feedburner directly with a little code massaging. See my posting in the cool hacks board. It only works for new posts though.
I'm running on Textpattern. I notice my feed hasn't been updated in well over 12 hours, so if there's a way to manually ping you, I could use help. Thanks.
opps... this is good
I use B2Evolution. How can this be set up to ping feedburner and others?
Or can it?
Thanks,
Lars
Hi, I use blogger/blogspot. Would this work with their system? I use to be in the itunes directory as of July 5th then shortly after I can no longer find my podcast in their listing after using Feedburner's new iTunes inclusion in the SmartCast section. Help!
My feed has not been updating automatically. I use blogger- I know I must be doing something wrong but I can't figure it out.
This is awesome, especially for a beginner like me. At first I thoguht RSS and all that was too complicated, but FeedBurner made it simple. Thanks a bunch, guys!
Do you publish settings to ping FeedBurner directly using the XML-RPC protocol? The only thing that I can find on your site is how to use your webform or Ping-o-Matic. Thanks!
I received this error when using the ping form tonight.
Your Ping resulted in an Error "Exceeded Access Limits - Try again Later"
Any ideas what access limits I exceeded?
I currently use a homemade blogging system. Currently I ping pingomatic at http://rpc.pingomatic.com/RPC2 (the standard weblogs.com rpc interface), although they are currently having problems. I'd like to add a feedburner pinger, to ensure that my system is automatically pinging feedburner as well. What URL do I use? rpc.feedburner.com?
Thanks.
(an e-mail reply would be appreciated, but not neccesary)
Fyre: Use http://ping.feedburner.com as the ping URL.
Is the FeedBurner ping service working? Nearly every time I ping from the MovableType interface, I get the error message that "Ping 'http://ping.feedburner.com' failed: HTTP error: 405 HTTP method POST is not supported by this URL".
Even if this fails, when FB sees an update, does it then send out pings via PingShot (assuming I've enabled it)?
Could some one point to resouces on how to ping search engines on making an update? Looking at the above contect I am not sure I follow.
yt, check out our PingShot service at http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/001433.html . I think that will do what you're asking for.
Hi,
I'm using Typepad. Where can I write the ping address?
Rgs
Jorge,
To ping us to update a FeedBurner feed the moment your TypePad blog is updated, you might consider following the instructions shown here (http://www.technorati.com/developers/ping/typepad.html), but instead of entering http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping, enter http://ping.feedburner.com to set FeedBurner as a ping target.
Also, don't forget about the recent FeedBurner/Typepad integration: http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/news/2006/06/typepad_and_feedburner.html
Now you can automate this pinging task using Autopinger.com. Just set your blogs and podcasts and you're done! Everything is Free!
If you are not using a blog or CMS which supports pinging out of the box, here is a "small" code snippet (PHP) to include in your "posting process" to update FeedBurner:
http://dev.lagged.de/feedburner/ping.phps
Adjust the title and URL, and off you go. The code relies on the PEAR package XML_RPC.
Can I use the XML-RPC Ping mechanism with my Wordpress.com hosted blog..?
It is at http://brucewagner.wordpress.com
How?
I use wordpress.com as well and would be very interested to hear how I can have my blog updates feed instantly to my rss reader (I use BuzzBoost to get the feed onto my website)
Hi,
For WordPress users, you can add the URL to Options -> Writing -> Update Service
Write down under the http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
:)
I use Blogger and need a code that automatically ping my site. Please!!!
Hi, okay I'm using Wordpress. Under Options>Write>Update Services I have these three services:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://ping.wordblog.de/
http://ping.feedburner.com/
The two first services are standard in my WP-installation. The feedburner-ping-service is new. It works well. But the one thing I'm missing is, that my new entry will not be displayed at http://wordblog.de/. Bevor I used feedburner this was the case. Now, nothing happens. Why?
I use a customised Blod designed based on architecture of WordPress and Blogger combined. The ping of Feedburner is not working. Please suggest where can i get more technical documentation on RPC ping.
I tried to ping my content but I do understand this reaction ?
Your Ping resulted in an Error "Exceeded Access Limits - Try again Later"
Anybody ??
BrianClarkeNUJ
I USE BLOGGER, IT DOES NOT UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY, PLEASE SOMEONE, ANYONE, WHOMEVER MAY BE READING THIS, TELL ME WHY THIS IS NOT WORKING, NOBODY SEEMS TO BE ANSWERING THE BLOGGER/BLOGSPOT QUESTIONS AND GOOGLE IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE ACQUIRED FEEDBURNER, PEOPLE, COME ON, THIS IS IMPORTANT, SOME OF US ARE SERIOUS ABOUT OUR BLOGS AND DON'T USE THEM AS LITTLE DIARIES OF OUR LITTLE LIFE NOBODY CARES ABOUT.
PLEASE, ANSWER, I ALREADY TRIED EVERYTHING, EVEN POSTING QUESTIONS AND NOBODY HAS RESPONDED, THAT'S WHY I'M SO UPSET.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, HERE ARE MY DETAILS:
website: alserdistinto.blogspot.com
feedburner feed: feeds.feedburner.com/alserdistinto
e-mail: alvaroart@gmail.com
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
USE BLOGGER, IT DOES NOT UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY, PLEASE SOMEONE, ANYONE, WHOMEVER MAY BE READING THIS, TELL ME WHY THIS IS NOT WORKING, NOBODY SEEMS TO BE ANSWERING THE BLOGGER/BLOGSPOT PEOPLE, COME ON, THIS IS IMPORTANT, SOME OF US ARE SERIOUS ABOUT OUR BLOGS AND DON'T USE THEM AS LITTLE STEP BY STEP GUIDE OF OUR LITTLE LIFE NOBODY CARES ABOUT.GIVE DETAIL FULLY
HOW TO SEE MY BLOG PUBLISH TO PEOPLE
www.futureasyet.blogspot.com
PLEASE, ANSWER, I ALREADY TRIED EVERYTHING, EVEN POSTING QUESTIONS AND NOBODY HAS RESPONDED, THAT'S WHY I'M SO UPSET
Hi, I use it with a phpbb xs forum, is there a way to update the content of the feed every 5 or 10 minutes instead of 30 mins?
Thanks in advance!
Sebas
