Best Places to Ping for Blogs?
 

What are the best places?

Is there a paid service you can ping them and then they ping the rest for you? So it doesn't hang your wordpress for 20 minutes?

Greg,
There are some default wordpress ping services that hang. Test them individually and remove the ones that suck.
Here's my list:

http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.hahahahahahahahahaha.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

You download the plugins, nopingwait and smartupdatepinger.

Together you won't have to wait anymore... it does it in the background...

I just use Pingoat. Most of my network's traffic come from people quoting my posts or my feeds. Here's a tip re blogging: use a very provocative personality for your posts. Drama, just like in forums, sell well on blogs.

http://www.hahahahahahahahahaha.com

http://pingomatic.com/

Wtf is Tech no rati blocked for?

I thought WordPress pinged these automatically using pingomatic - do these need to be individually inserted into your write options?

Pingomatic does all those anyways. If you add some other services you are just spamming your XMLRPC updates. These are the bigger one's. As for adult services I'm not sure of.