Like with the “remember me” functionality, this is one that should have been in Afrigator since the start. I do apologize for the slight 20 month delay. :P
The first round of pinging is now available. If you have written a new blog post, you can go to Afrigator, log in and in your dashboard ping your blog to get your post into Afrigator straight away. Our Gator parser takes longer and longer nowadays to run through all feeds. Currently it takes about an hour and it is just getting longer and longer as the number of blogs on Afrigator increase. Jump the queue why don’t you? We seriously encourage it!
From time to time our parser falls over and get uptight like a sued blogger and may ignore your feed. Well, now you can flip the Gator parser a bird and take matters in your own hands and see to it that your blog IS updated.
Please do note that it is NOT a silver bullet. If there are something buggered with your blog’s feed for whatever reason, it won’t update Afrigator. At least you would know about it straight away and can jump on our case for help!
So here is how it works:
Log in to Afrigator and go to your dashboard.
Underneath your blog screenshot there are four buttons:
Hit the last one that says: “Ping blog”
Thats it! Simple as pie. Just let us know if there are any issues, mkay?
WARNING: The pinging might run a little long. That is completely normal.
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Chris M 11:55 pm on February 10, 2009 Permalink |
Haha, I sooooo know why this happened :D
Stii 12:35 am on February 11, 2009 Permalink |
Hey Chris, why do you think this happened? It sounds sinister and there are a couple of good reasons why, none of which I won’t admit publicly. Please do tell!
Chris M 12:36 am on February 11, 2009 Permalink |
I was just guessing that you received an email either last night or today from someone whose website wasn’t being indexed on Afrigator?
Stii 12:42 am on February 11, 2009 Permalink |
Geez dude, not only one! Its driving me nuts at the moment. The someone you’re talking about is someone you know of? Anyway, it seems the common denominator amongst all feeds not getting updated are that they’re all feedburner feeds and to make matters worse, I discovered that pinging isn’t playing too nice with feedburner either :( Then again, gotta love the challenge! That reason and the fact that we’ve been hammered for such functionality for a long, long time… I’ve been slacking ;)
BTW, got your shirt?
Chris M 12:51 am on February 11, 2009 Permalink |
I duno htf, but for some reason, I frequently get emailed Afrigator and AdGator support questions, which I normally answer, now I’m just passing on your and Justin’s private email addresses :D
Dude, Afrigator sent me a skirt!
http://imod.co.za/index.php/2009/02/11/my-afrigator-skirt-arrived-almost-2-years-later/
Stii 1:00 am on February 11, 2009 Permalink |
Classic Chris! Thats more than cool to pass them our way. Thanks mate!
Chris M 1:03 am on February 11, 2009 Permalink |
:-)
Lekker slaap
Seags 8:43 am on February 11, 2009 Permalink |
I waited for more than an hour over the weekend for my latest post to show, then I gave up, I now know why! :)