Use WordPress Ping Utility Wisely

Every time we update our blog with fresh content, wordpress tells ping service provider that blog has been updated by sending a ping query. Basically by pinging, we tell directories and search engines that our site has been updated and have now fresh content. All such directories and search engines send their bots and crawlers to index out site.

So it means that ping service is a way to increase traffic by telling various search engines, directories and blogs that we have updates. We increase chances of hits from various sources. Why not to leverage this opportunity by pinging maximum directories and search engines.

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But keep in mind that frequent pinging can also ban your site and such sites are known as Ping Spammer. For example, when a blogger writes new content and hits publish, just after some time he realizes he need to make some changes like to remove spell mistake, rearrange sentence or anything like, every time you hit update, wordpress send a ping query which can cause to ban your site.

To resolve this issue and take maximum benefit from this service we have some plugins that will take care of frequent pings.

MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

This gem from MaxBlogPress optimizes ping query to avoid getting ban of your site. It sends ping only when you hit publish button. No matter how many times you hit update button after publishing a post.

Most interesting feature of this plugin is, it saves you when you schedule a post to appear in future and your blog sends a ping despite the fact that post hasn’t been appeared in blog. This means, all ping service providers  are notified but post is not appeared while when that specific time comes ,publishing event triggers to make the post visible online, but in this case ping is not send because wordpress already send a ping for same article.

Download this plugin and save your blog from getting ban on various services.

Ping Status Checker

In start of our article we got the idea of pinging and benefits of ping. It means we need to add more and more sites or search engines to send update signal.

But how to avoid dead or duplicate entry of ping service providers? Ping status checker plugin will do all the work for you. This plugin has two buttons; one will check all listed ping services for duplicate entry and list them with number of repetitions. Second button checks health of search engine/directory to ensure optimized pinging. In the end of both results you need to remove dead and duplicate entries.

Bonus Tip

Most of time it happens that bloggers refers to their article in blog while producing fresh content. They got pinged by their articles which are shown in the comments section of referring article. How to avoid it? No Self Ping plugin disables self pinging and saves your time. All you need to install it and forget it

I am listing a base list of ping service providers, all of them are alive and in working state. There is no duplicate entry in list. You are highly encouraged to add more services to enhance the list.

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://blog.goo.ne.jp

http://godesigngroup.com

http://ipings.com

http://lasermemory.com

http://mod-pubsub.org

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.blogoon.net

http://ping.blogstart.de

http://rpc.twingly.com/

http://ping.feedburner.com/

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