What Is PhotoPing.com?

PhotoPing.com is like Weblogs.com (or any of the other blog ping services), except that it's for photos and videos.

Ping us and we'll store the information you give us, then we'll present it to search engines crawling this site in the form of RSS and PhotoRss feeds. After reading those feeds, search engines will know not only what the latest photos and videos are, but when and where they were taken, and what they're about.

That's right, no more guess work by the search engines about what your photos are about. Ping PhotoPing.com with all the information about your photos — title, description, subject, credits, location, geo location (lat, lon), tags, etc. — and you will be making your photos more searchable.

How It Works

It's easy to ping PhotoPing.com with your photo or video information. You can:

• Fill out a web form that we provide here on this site.
• Write a snippet of code to call it from your photo, video or blog software.
• Ask your favorite photo site, whether it be Flickr, YouTube or Kodak, VideoEgg, JAlbum or Gallery, Photoblogs.org, MetaCafe or Buzznet.com, to ping us when you upload new photos and videos.

After PhotoPing.com receives your ping — regardless of whether you tell us, or your photo software tells us — we will put your photo or video at the top of the "Recent Pings" list where everyone else can see it, and into our RSS and PhotoRss feeds so that search engines can index them.

Technical Details

You ping PhotoPing.com by sending an HTTP REST request to http://ping.photoping.com.

All parameters are listed on the PhotoPing.com Ping API page. All parameters are assumed to be UTF-8, and must be properly URL-encoded.