I saw a mass ping list on PasteBin just a few minutes ago which had 231 sites listed. Very nice.
Here’s the mass ping list I have been personally using for years, and its got 250, or so, sites. Enjoy.
BTW if you’re using WordPress, this goes into Settings ->Writing ->Update Services.
DIY, or Do-It-Yourself, is not an option most professionals can afford to exercise. Just about anyone can afford DIY, monetarily speaking. I don’t know of a businessperson who cannot come up with $49.95 a month to have a cookie cutter template with a few paragraphs relating to their business up and running in a few hours.
Unfortunately, most “site-builder websites” end up looking like this site. Just because you can install Joomla or WordPress easily does not mean you know how to use it, as seen here. These must be DIY attempts. At least I hope they are. No self-respecting designer would allow such incompetence. Or would they?
I’m not disparaging the capability of these companies to perform the services they are advertising, I am using them as an example of what can happen when DIY goes awry.