Most of you already know what Ping-O-Matic service is. If not, just visit their site here for an explanation about their ping service (errr… I’m not lazy to give my own explanation about Ping-O-Matic. Actually I already wrote it, then Firefox crashed. So it’s all gone, I have to rewrite this post, and no thanks, I don’t want to rewrite my long detail explanation about Ping-O-Matic again…). Wordpress and some other blogging engine, already have build-in function to automatically send notification to Ping-O-Matic everytime we write a new post, so it can send pingback to several ping services.

What if your favourite blogging engine doesn’t have that feature? Well, you have to do it manually from their site. Just enter the URL and the title of your blog, select which service to ping, submit. In the end of the ping processes, you’ll be offered to save or bookmarked a ‘unique’ link. Next time, if you want to notify Ping-O-Matic again, you don’t have to enter your blog URL and blog title again. Just activate that link and Ping-O-Matic will do the rest.

Now, the problem is, what if we have more than one blog that need to notify Ping-O-Matic manually? Using that ‘traditional’ method, you may end up with many links for Ping-O-Matic. What if we have just one link that work for all of our blogs? So no matter what your blog is, just activate the link, and it will automatically send notification to Ping-O-Matic.

Okay, first, here’s the code:

javascript:location.href='http://pingomatic.com/ping/?title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&blogurl='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&chk_weblogscom=on&chk_blogs=on&chk_technorati=on&chk_feedburner=on&chk_syndic8=on&chk_newsgator=on&chk_feedster=on&chk_myyahoo=on&chk_pubsubcom=on&chk_blogdigger=on&chk_blogrolling=on&chk_blogstreet=on&chk_moreover=on&chk_weblogalot=on&chk_icerocket=on&chk_audioweblogs=on&chk_rubhub=on&chk_geourl=on&chk_a2b=on&chk_blogshares=on'

If you notice, I replace the title and URL with JavaScript function which will automatically recognized our blog’s title and URL. Next, simply bookmark this link or drag it to your bookmark toolbar (on Mozilla/Firefox) for quick access. Now everytime you finish updating your blog, just go to the main page of your blog, and hit that bookmarklet.

If you don’t want to migrate to Wordpress (or any other blogging engine that have automatic ping feature) yet, I guess this is the easiest way to work with Ping-O-Matic.

Right? )