It didn’t take very long to track down the “Update Services” section in the WordPress Admin (available at the bottom of the “Settings > Writing” page). Looks a bit like this:

Essentially, when a user hits “Publish”, an XML-RPC ping is sent to the services listed in the textarea above. There are dozens of these services with a lot of overlap, but just adding a few to this can help you spread the glory of your most recent post quickly and effortlessly.

What does this all mean to you? Traffic (and attention), like right now.

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