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.
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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.
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 //www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/000672.html to create a bookmark that should do what you want.
Thanks!
Posted by: Eric at August 5, 2004 09:50 AMForgive 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
Posted by: Mike at September 30, 2004 03:30 PMFor 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.
Posted by: Tom Morris at October 29, 2004 05:22 AMgeeklog 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.
Posted by: Robert Pendell at March 19, 2005 11:20 PMI'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.
Posted by: Bob at March 29, 2005 07:15 AMopps... this is good
Posted by: colbert at April 5, 2005 09:22 AMI 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!
Posted by: digital femme at July 13, 2005 04:37 PMMy feed has not been updating automatically. I use blogger- I know I must be doing something wrong but I can't figure it out.
Posted by: Melissa Silverstein at August 4, 2005 09:30 AMThis 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!
Posted by: Kevin at August 24, 2005 06:31 PMDo 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!
Posted by: Chris at August 28, 2005 05:23 PMI 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?
Posted by: MesoEd at September 23, 2005 10:59 PMI 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)
Posted by: Fyre at October 27, 2005 09:30 PMFyre: Use http://ping.feedburner.com as the ping URL.
Posted by: Eric Lunt at October 27, 2005 09:34 PMIs 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.
Posted by: yt at April 14, 2006 08:02 AMyt, check out our PingShot service at //www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/001433.html . I think that will do what you're asking for.
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