Adding Pings to Windows Live Writer (Beta)

August 18, 2006 · 1 min read

Once you write a blog post, it is good to have your editor ping a few of your favorite blog post repositories to help drive traffic to you blog.  Windows Live Writer (Beta) allows you to setup a list of sites you want to ping once you posted.  Here are the steps to make that possible:

  1. Open Windows Live Writer (Beta)
  2. Click Tools...Preferences
  3. Click on the Ping Servers link on the left side of the Preferences window

Preferences

  1. Add the list of sites you would like to ping once your post is published.

Here is my list of pings:

  •  - Technorati
  •  - Newsgator
  •  - Bloglines
  •  - Feedster
  •  - Weblogs.com
This article is part of the GWB Archives. Original Author: Jeff Julian

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