Almost everybody will be telling you that the larger you ping list is, the better. That’s why
people are searching for the so called “Ultimate Ping List” to add to their default Wordpress setting that has only http://rpc.pingomatic.com.
Well, it’s true; the more sites that you
are pinging to, the better. However, this could also be the reason of getting your blog banned from pinging services. You know, getting your blog
banned from pinging services is like having your sites being banned by the search engines when they delisted you from their listing. In another
words, you’ll lose out on high volume of traffic from various sources.
Basically, the problem is not that
because you’re pinging too many sites but the flaw of Wordpress system that automatically ping each and every time that you add a new post to
your blog. Wow! That’s hands free. Isn’t that a dream come true? In fact, it’s it but the system failed to recognize when you’re actually making
a new post or just an edit to the existing post.
That means, if you’re going to make a
punctuation correction, the system will automatically ping the same post to all sites. And then you found a spelling error and amend it once
again, the system will ping again. Just imagine what would happen if you submit a same article to article directories a few times consecutively
or submitting your site to search engines repeatedly for a few times. Yeah, simple – engines’ spiders are going to make a bad report on you.
So, it doesn’t matter whether you’re
doing autoblogging or real blogging, it’s crucial that you fix the setting in your Wordpress blog to benefit from the free traffic. Well, it
doesn’t require much effort. You just need to install a plugin. I’m using the Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger. Here’s a snapshot of the report that it recorded on a post that I purposely edit to
show you how it functions:
See? It pings to 6 main pinging services
and how it ignores from pinging again on the same post that was edited.
Unless you’re so confident that you’ll
never make errors and that every post you make is final without amendments, you don’t need this and may leave the default setting as is. But I
doubt that anyone can have such high precision. So, don’t risk.
Here’s another plugin that you can try
– MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
Note: I’ve never tested the latter, so
I’m not sure if it’s as good but just aware that they serve the same purpose.
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