FeedBurner Not Getting Pinged

In the last couple of weeks I noticed something strange about my blog - every time I wrote a new post I had to manually go to FeedBurner.com and ping my blog feed in order for it to get updated - my blog RSS feed was not getting updated automatically even after 30 minutes.

As I hadn’t changed any of my blog configuration I assumed the list of ping services under my blog admin Settings -> Writing contained a reference to the Feedburner ping service as it was getting pinged in the past.

Well, today I got tired of manually pinging my feed via FeedBurner “troubleshootize” options so I checked my Settings -> Writing and lo and behold the Update Services list did not contain any reference to a FeedBurner ping service. It did contain a reference to the Pingomatic service so I assume this is what was updating FeedBurner in the past - but perhaps Pingomatic has stopped working?

Anyways, I updated my Update Services with a new list and now my FeedBurner feed is getting pinged and updated automatically.

Here is the list of update services I use now ( I got them from WordPress codex ) :
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.wasalive.com/ping/
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://blogping.unidatum.com/RPC2/

Why burn a feed via FeedBurner? Read about it here.