What the heck is a ping anyways? Well, a ping is a packet of information that is passed from one network device to another. It’s a way of ensuring that the two devices are communicating. As far as your blog/website goes, pings are important because it’s a way of letting the Internet know that you have new information. If you’re posting articles to a WordPress blog, you want the search engines to know that there’s something new and exciting at your site. It’s important that search engines and directories are notified. On the other hand, if you ping too often, you risk being penalized by Google for being a ping spammer. So, as a WordPress blogger, what can we do to avoid that?
WordPress Plugins to Prevent Over-Pinging:
Did you know that when you update a blog post in WordPress that it pings that update? If you’re making multiple changes to a blog post, you run the risk of alerting the search engines too often and you risk being identified as a ping spammer. (I for one click on the save button a lot when I’m creating a new post. It’s totally unnecessary to ping each update.)
An easy way to avoid this is to install a WordPress plugin. Previously, I had used and recommended using the cbnet Ping Optimizer plugin. That plugin hasn’t been updated since March of 2010. (It’s always a good idea to keep an eye on whether or not your plugins are still being maintained. If they’re not being regularly updated, it could be a security risk and it may be time to find a replacement.)
My recommendation now is to install and activate the WordPress Ping Optimizer plugin. When I replaced cbnet Ping Optimizer, I deactivated it first and then installed WordPress Ping Optimizer. It was a seamless transition and my list of URLs to ping maintained intact. (Of course, always back up your WordPress database before installing or updating plugins – just in case. Sometimes, plugins will conflict with something on your site and there’s no guarantee that you won’t run into a problem.)
What URLs Should You Be Pinging?
Jym Tarrant has compiled a list of blog update services that he recommends pinging. Once this list is set up, your blog will automatically notify those services whenever you publish a new post. This will help get your posts indexed quicker and hopefully will result in an increase in traffic. You can read Jym’s post here: Blog Update Services – WordPress Ping List. (Jym’s directions call for copying his list and then going into your WordPress Writing Settings and pasting them there. If you’re using the WordPress Ping Optimizer plugin, I believe you can paste this list directly there.)
You can thank Jym by following him on Twitter at @JymTarrant. (Please let him know that I sent you his way). If you read to the bottom of his WordPress Ping List post, you’ll also see that Jym has shared his Free Blog RSS Feed Submission Directories List too.
What are your thoughts about pinging? Do you have anything to add? In addition to Jym Tarrant’s list, is there a list that you use? Do you use a different plugin from the one that I recommend? One other thing that I often do is ping other blogs after I’ve left a comment there. (I use Pingler.net to do this but there are other services such as Pingomatic.com and Pingoat.net that you can use.) This is a win-win for both of us.
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Twitter: tessmick
May 8, 2013 at 1:08 pm
Hello Sherryl,
I was directed to you from Kiesha Easley at We Blog Better, and am so glad I was. Thank you for this post, which pretty much answers my pinging questions. I have now enabled Wordpress Ping Optimizer, and am hoping for the best with our baby blog! Now that I’m here, I’m going to read some of your other stuff, too.
Thanks again!
Twitter: bonniehershey
April 11, 2013 at 11:55 am
Sherryl, your article is a God-send as our traffic has dropped soon after switching our site to Wordpress. Could you kindly email me that ping list that you mentioned? Thank you so so much! I just installed the plugin and praying that it helps.
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April 12, 2013 at 8:24 pm
Hi Bonnie,
I’ll send you that list. Another thought is did you recreate your sitemap.xml file and resubmit it using Google Webmaster tools? You could also ask Google to “fetch” your site while you’re there.
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Twitter: ebizdame
March 19, 2013 at 1:34 am
Hi Sherryl,
I started a new blog about a month ago. Everything seemed to go well until about a week ago when I noticed that my posts stopped being indexed. They used to be within a few days before that.
My first thought was overpinging because as idiotic as it may seem I proofread my articles a gazillion times but as soon as I publish one, inevitably I will find and error and update the new post.
I know that WP was repinging updates so I think I might have caused myself a problem. I am going to install the ping optimizer you suggest here.
In your experience, do you think that the updating might have caused the lack of or slowing down of having my posts being indexed? And if this is the case is it recoverable.
Sorry for the loaded questions. I thought you might know.
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March 20, 2013 at 3:56 pm
Dita,
Over pinging can be perceived as spam by Google. It’s unfortunate that this happened to you but if you’ve installed the plugin that I suggested, you should be okay making edits in the future. It is certainly not idiotic at all to edit and want to get it right. Eventually, WordPress will probably build in a way to prevent self pinging. (The premium version of CommentLuv already has this option available.) Meanwhile, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. There’s really nothing that I can think of to make Google happy again other than providing new fresh content that is.
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Twitter: alanseidel
March 15, 2013 at 3:49 pm
Great article and answered some questions I had about pings. Thanks so much!! Always scared about over pinging….
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March 15, 2013 at 9:43 pm
Thanks for letting me know that you found my article helpful Alan.
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Twitter: capeholidays
February 22, 2013 at 7:21 am
Hi I am looking for a way to ping my RSS blog newsletter again. I wanted to schedule a post, but then back dated it. And I am not sure if the post will be sent to my Mailchimp RSS campaign if it get published on the now corrected schedule date.
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February 24, 2013 at 5:52 pm
Johan,
Offhand, I’m not familiar with how Mailchimp handles your RSS feed. I would think that if you went into your article, updated it and scheduled it to publish again that it would ping but I’m not positive that it would work that way.
I did a quick search in Mailchimp support but couldn’t find an answer. I’d be interested in knowing if you’re able to get it to publish,
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February 25, 2013 at 12:33 am
Hi Sherryl
BTW: Could have been Cherry Perry. And have a merry party ha ha
Thanks for the answer.
This is the answer from Mailchimp
At anytime, you can create a Regular campaign, and use the FEED tags to pull in older content from when your feed stopped publishing.
Learn more about FEED tags here:
Creating a category with Feed Merge Tag: http://eepurl.com/d7VXr
And then going forward, you can use the RSS campaign to continue with new feed posts.
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Twitter: keepupweb
February 25, 2013 at 1:03 pm
Thanks for the update Johan. Someone reading this comment thread might come across your answer and find it valuable.
BTW – No one calls me Cherry but I have been called Sherry – which (when combined with my last name) – I’m not a huge fan of.
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Nice artcle , thanks for teaching me about ping and opimization
Twitter: keepupweb
February 3, 2013 at 6:26 pm
Your’e welcome Kumar. Thanks for letting me know that you found my article useful.
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Thanks for sharing your knowledge. First time to know that any minor updates on wordpress will form a pin. Will look into the WP ping plugin.
Twitter: keepupweb
January 22, 2013 at 8:53 pm
Hi Susan,
It is surprising that this isn’t talked about more. I’m glad you found my post helpful.
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Also, I didn’t quite get what you mean by this: “One other thing that I often do is ping other blogs after I’ve left a comment there. This is a win-win for both of us.”
How exactly you do this? Just submit a link to your comment on one of these pinging services? If so, how does it benefit your blog? Sorry for all these questions, but as you can tell I’m a total newby here
Twitter: keepupweb
January 21, 2013 at 11:30 pm
Hi Tanya,
I’ll email my ping list to you tomorrow. As for pinging sites, there are several ping services available. I use the free version of Pingler.com. (There’s a limit to how many URLs you can submit a day but it works for me.) After I submit my comment (on a CommentLuv enabled site), I enter the URL and title. When it pings their blog post, it will also ping the page of the article that I linked to on my site. Win-win.
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Thank you, Sherryl for your reply. I will try to see how it works and submit a ping to this comment
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Hello Sherryl,thank you for your article, I will definitely start implementing your advice and would also like to ask you for a favor to email me the ping list and well as the RSS fed list. Thank you very much in advance
Twitter: keepupweb
January 20, 2013 at 6:07 pm
You’re welcome Rob. If I learn more, I’ll either update this thread or possibly write a new post.
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January 17, 2013 at 5:09 pm
Great article. I was contemplating the mystery of what makes this site rank #3 on Google (1/17/13). Mayhaps it\’s the pinging, maybe the effective use of the keyword and pics. Or perhaps it\’s the fact that you have 184 comments, which is freakin\’ awesome. As a student of the game I am humbled by your social prowess. Thanks for the tips.
Twitter: keepupweb
January 21, 2013 at 11:18 pm
Thanks for the kind words Leonard. I’ve had a strategic plan to build a community through commenting and social media while at the same time concentrating on SEO. Being part of the CommentLuv community played a role in helping to earn this blog a P/R 3. Hopefully, this year, I’ll hit P/R 4.
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Hi Sheryl,
Thanks for the post. I like the ping optimizer plugin. Can you please email me the list of ping url’s? also do you know how you can validate if the ping url list servers are still up and running.
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Twitter: keepupweb
December 11, 2012 at 5:51 pm
The list is on it’s way Patrick. As for validating the ping list, I honestly had not even thought of doing that. Would you believe there’s a WordPress plugin for that? I just Goggled and one popped up. It’s called “Ping List Checker”. I know nothing about it and am not recommending it. (I’m not saying don’t try it either.) I am reluctant to add any more plugins to my site. The more plugins you have, the greater the chances of there being a conflict. If anyone does try this plugin and wants to share the results, I’ be interested in hearing from you.
Having said that, I always recommend backing up before installing or updating any plugin. I also recommend keeping track of what plugins you add, delete or update. That way, if you do need to troubleshoot a problem on your site, you’ll have an idea of what may be the cause.
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December 9, 2012 at 9:34 pm
Hello there, is pinging my homepage at least twice a week safe? Before I used to ping once a day, now I plan to ping at least once or twice a week… Anyway, one of the link above is under maintenance but for sure I will comeback here for more information!
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Twitter: keepupweb
December 11, 2012 at 6:13 pm
Prime,
There’s no need to ping unless there was a change made on that page. I think the safest route to go is to install a plugin like WordPress Ping Optimizer and let it handle pinging.
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Hi Sherryl.
Thanks for the interesting article…it’s just what I was looking for. Jim’s site is still under maintenance. Can you email me his list?
Thanks
Michael
Twitter: keepupweb
November 30, 2012 at 8:45 pm
You’re welcome Michael. I just sent the ping list to you as a text file.
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Twitter: montilucast
December 6, 2012 at 8:40 am
Hi Sherryl,
Thank for the advice. This article has drawn my attention towards the important aspects of blogging that I had been sort of neglecting so far. By the way, could you please send me the txt file too?
Twitter: keepupweb
December 7, 2012 at 8:42 pm
It’s on it’s way Munir. Thanks for taking the time to let me know that you liked my article.
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Twitter: derekkaye
November 28, 2012 at 5:04 pm
The site is in maintenance mode (and looks like it may have been for a while). Is there any other way to get the ping list??
Thanks for your help, Sherryl!
Derek
Twitter: keepupweb
November 30, 2012 at 8:44 pm
It’s on it’s way Derek.
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Twitter: thilastars
November 26, 2012 at 7:24 am
Hi sherryl,can you please forward me the txt file via email. It would be great if you send the file in email. looking forward your email. thank you.
Twitter: keepupweb
November 30, 2012 at 8:31 pm
Hi Dinesh,
Sorry it took me so long to get this to you. I just emailed the list to you.
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Twitter: thilastars
December 2, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Hi Sherryl,
I got the text file. Thanks for sharing the information.
Twitter: bivori
November 25, 2012 at 9:38 am
Most useful post Sherry but my misfortune, tyrrant’s site now is in maintenance mode. I’ll need to wait for some time to get the list of ping services.
We link to original post to avoid duplication. But today I learned that it may cause the unavailability of information. Hahaa… will wait for the site to be live again.
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Twitter: keepupweb
November 25, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Hi Suresh,
I hope you don’t mind but I took the liberty of emailing you the ping list. I had just forwarded it to someone, so, I’m forwarding it to you too.
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Twitter: KimutaiRobert
November 24, 2012 at 6:40 am
Hi Sherryl. Thanks for the advice. I was looking for pinging services and how to, then came across your article. I find it very useful info. Thank you.
Twitter: keepupweb
November 25, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Hi Robert,
Thanks for letting me know that you found my article helpful. If Jym Tarrant’s site is still unavailable and you’d like me to email you a text file of the ping list, just let me know.
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Twitter: KimutaiRobert
November 25, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Yes. I would really appreciate if you e-mail me. I don’t want to continue depending on luck but want to learn esp from your experience. “How to ping” is also what I would like to know from you. Much thanks Sherryl.
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Thanks Sherryl to alert us. I have tried to download the ping list but the site is under maintenance. Can you send that into my mail?
Twitter: keepupweb
November 25, 2012 at 4:00 pm
My ping list is on it’s way Rakesh.
Thank you for this post. i noticed i can only use pingler not more than once in three days.
Twitter: keepupweb
November 25, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Hi Gabriel,
I use the free version of Pingler and the only thing that I’ve run into is not being able to ping the same article twice in a row. I don’t belineve that I’ve run into a situation that’s similar to yours.
Hi Sherryl,Thanks for sharing! I\’ve been trying to access Jym Tarrant\’s compiled list of blog update services he recommends pinging. However his site has been down for maintenance for the past two weeks. Would you happen to have the list available?I appreciate your help and your very informative blog. Wishing you the best!
Twitter: keepupweb
November 15, 2012 at 4:11 pm
Hi Arthur,
That’s too bad about Jym’s site being down. I wonder what’s going on. I hope the best for him. Jym’s a great guy. I emailed you a text file containing the ping list that I use. If you don’t get it, just let me know.
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Thanks Sherryl for your timely response, got the file. You ROCK!
Thank you very much. I will download that Plugin. I was looking for something to help with the pings!
Twitter: keepupweb
October 20, 2012 at 7:22 pm
Hi Brian,
Thanks for letting me know that you found my article helpful.
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Thanks for this post, actually I’ve got here searching sites to massively ping my site, good I read this
by the way I just started my blog, it’s about my journey on the internet marketing, if you have time go to it and give me your opinion, this is not spam, I’m not selling nothing there 
Twitter: keepupweb
October 15, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Hi Luis,
Jym Tarrant’s lists (that I linked to above) should give you a good start. I checked out your blog and you’re off to a good start. You’ve followed at least 1 of my “4 Tips You Should Know When You Start Blogging” http://bit.ly/SYi2vk and that was to delete the admin user and create your own ID. The next thing that I suggest is creating a Gravatar. (That’s one of the 4 tips in the article that I’ve linked to.) Good luck! I hope I see you back here. The comment sections of my posts are usually a great way to meet other bloggers who share some great info here. Thanks for joining us!
Thank you for your comments!
I’ll be around reading and learning!
Hi, i’ve been blogging for 2 years now and never pinged any of my blogs, you have given good details for not making to many changings in the post as it can be risky for google to spam your site, i will be more careful from know onwards to make changes in any of the posts!
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October 10, 2012 at 7:07 pm
Hi Zavera,
Pinging directories (such as those listed in Jym Tarrant’s article) is a good idea to make the search engines aware that you have new content on your site. Over pinging can be an issue. If you install the plugin that I suggested, you shouldn’t have to worry about it.
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Twitter: techalam
August 12, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Well yes, excessive pinging is not good as Google detects it as ping spamming. Thanks Sherryl for this Wordpress pin optimizer plugin.
I noticed that one table of “WordPress ping Optimizer” in my database had over 6 million rows since a few months! I deleted them and found out that my blog was pinging all the time. Only deleting all the URLs to ping stopped this. When I write one URL in that field WP starts immediately pinging. Deactivating “WordPress ping Optimizer” does not work, deleting and reinstalling it doesn’t work.
Any suggestions?
Twitter: keepupweb
August 2, 2012 at 10:42 pm
Subash, I’m really not sure what’s happening. Have you tried posting in the support forum? http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-ping-optimizer
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Thank you for the hint.
Yes I did, but got no answer. However I’m really not sure that it is WP Ping Optimizers fault.
Oh, sorry, I posted on the developers website not in the support forum. I will try.
Would you suggest ever using paid pinging services? I just always get a weird feeling about website that claim that paying them will boost traffic.
Twitter: keepupweb
July 29, 2012 at 10:30 pm
Hi Samantha,
I have never paid for pinging or backlinks. There may be someone here who feels differently but I like to have control over my site. I mark most of the sites that ping my posts as spam unless I recognize and trust the blogger. I’ve read cautionary tales from other bloggers that some sites start out with innocent links to you and then after you trust them, they start linking spammy articles to you. I don’t think it’s worth the risk.
As always, if someone here can convince me otherwise, I’m interested in hearing what they have to say. It’s a good question. Thanks for asking it.
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July 29, 2012 at 4:57 am
thanks for advice, i think that pinging sometimes is not even needed if google really likes your blog
Twitter: keepupweb
July 29, 2012 at 11:20 am
That’s true El. A useful tip (that I picked up from another blogger) is to use a ping service (like Pingler) after you’ve left a link to your blog on a CommentLuv enabled website By pinging that page, both that blogger and you get a little extra ping love. It can only help. (Unless of course you’re commenting on a spammy site but that’s a whole other conversation.)
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July 27, 2012 at 4:40 am
I had no idea that saving multiple times would bring multiple pings. Now I know to be sure to proof read well before posting to get out of that habit. Thank you so much for posting! This is great information for any new blogger out there!
Twitter: keepupweb
July 27, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Hi Jennifer,
It doesn’t seem to be common knowledge that updating your posts notify the search engines. If you install a plugin like “WordPress Ping Optimizer”, you won’t have to worry about edits pinging. (As always, make sure that you backup your database before you install or update any plugin.)
Thanks for taking the time to let me know that your found this helpful!
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Hey!
Thanks for posting these info, I will surely install this. these tips are really great. Headlines must be eye catching that attract readers to visit your website or blog. Write good quality and unique content.I also like your highlights.
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June 30, 2012 at 3:10 pm
You’re welcome Bharat. Thanks for letting me know that you found my article about pinging helpful.
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I generally create a post,resubmit the sitemap and ping. By that way,my post get indexed within 3 days by Google. Isn’t that good?
Twitter: keepupweb
June 30, 2012 at 3:09 pm
That is good Ali.
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Nice! I was manually pinging my wordpress blog after every post update but I think I will be trying a rather automated process. Is there any specific plugin that you are currently using or recommending?
Thanks!
Twitter: keepupweb
June 20, 2012 at 5:29 pm
Yannis,
I’m using the “WordPress Ping Optimizer” plugin. The easiest way to install it is to click on “Add New” under “Plugins” in your WordPress admin panel. Make sure that you backup your site first.
Thank you so much for the clear detailed post about pinging! I had never heard of ping spam before so this is abit of an eye opener. I have just installed the plug-in you mentioned =)
Twitter: keepupweb
June 20, 2012 at 6:40 pm
I’m sure there are a lot of people who are unaware that this happens. It’s too bad that this isn’t incorporated into the core version of WordPress. Thanks for letting me know that this helped you.
Hi Sherryl,
You might not believe it but your info comes in at the right time. I had been accepting all kinds of pingbacks on my wordpress blog and was wondering whether what I was doing was right or not. In fact, being a newbie, I had so many questions and your post comes as a blessing since it answered most of them. Will be careful from henceforth. Thanks again!
Twitter: keepupweb
June 2, 2012 at 9:58 pm
You are so welcome Dipa. Thanks for letting me know that you found my post on pinging helpful. That’s great feedback. Sometimes topics (like pinging) don’t get a lot of attention but if it helps someone, then it’s definitely worth writing about. I really appreciate your feedback.
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Hi Sherryl. Thanks for such a beneficial share. I was not using any such plugin into my WordPress blog but after going through your post I have realized that resorting to Wordress Ping Optimizer will encourage search engines and different blog directories/services to index my updated blog properly and would curtail from sending any unnecessary ping to ping services. It saves blog from getting banned by such services. Would follow your posts regularly.
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June 1, 2012 at 10:32 am
Hi Purnima,
Thanks for letting me know that you found my article helpful. I was prompted to write this post because pinging is something that you don’t hear about often but it’s actually a very valuable service. A great thing about this plugin is that you set it up and then forget about it. (Unless a blogger like Jym posts another list of services to ping or we hear of one that we want to add to the list.)
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Hi Sherryl!
This was really helpful, now I’m sure that my site is indexed by google. I wasn’t aware of the ping thing until today(I only know about the ping command in cmd, but not this).
Thanks!
Twitter: keepupweb
May 31, 2012 at 9:15 pm
Hi Justin,
I think the ping command that you’re thinking of is the same thing. Are you referring to setting up two pieces of equipment such as computers or printers and sending the ping command to see if they’re communicating?
I’m not sure if that’s what you’re referring to but it certainly brought back memories of the 80s when I was working with mini computers and main frames. (That ages me.
)
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Hey Melanie,
We were aware of this and did it on a few sites, and have been meaning to do this on our actual site, but never have. We were one of those people that made little changes to a page or a post and there went a ping…..
This must have been a sign, as someone we know shared this post in a group we are in and we were like, it must be time.
Thank you for the reminder, we finally took action! Looking forward to hearing more soon.
Twitter: keepupweb
May 27, 2012 at 5:16 pm
Hi Robert,
Thanks for letting me know that you found my post by someone sharing it. I’m glad to hear that you’ve installed a plugin to handle this. I hope you copied and pasted Jym Tarrant’s list of sites to ping too. It must have taken him quite a while to compile this list and I for one and grateful for it.
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Hi Sherryl
Thanks for a really informative post. I am surely gonna install it for my blog. I would like to ask, are these services free or paid??
Twitter: keepupweb
May 24, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Hi Richa,
They’re free.
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Thanks Sherryl for your prompt reply. Since they are free, it makes them all the more enticing and worth trying….
Twitter: wordpressians
May 5, 2012 at 3:02 pm
I was not using any such plugin into our WordPress blog that is a cool technique to ping. Thanks for giving such nice information. May I manually add any ping site such as ping-o-matic for pinging our blog.
Twitter: keepupweb
May 5, 2012 at 3:33 pm
You’re welcome. Just follow the link to Jym Tarrant’s blog, and copy and paste his list. He’s included ping-o-matic.com along with a lot of others.
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Pinging blog to search engines is very important.If you do search engines will know about your blog updates.There many free and paid sevices to ping your blog.Check below one there are 10 100% free pinging services.
http://www.tech-cave.com/2012/04/top-10-fee-blog-pinging-services-to.html
Thanks
Twitter: keepupweb
April 19, 2012 at 9:32 am
Pasindu,
I once read a post where the blogger compared pinging to standing in a field waving a red flag, just to let people know you were there. That image has stuck in my head.
Hi Sherryl
This blog post was too much needed for me
.There are lot of people who asks this question on many seo forums or discussion boards.Now I have a great resource to share on that places.I bookmarked this blog post and now I will share this blog post with all those people.
Keep it up!
Many more useful stuff is required through your blogging
Many Thanks
Twitter: keepupweb
April 19, 2012 at 9:30 am
Hi Amit,
Thanks for dropping by. I always appreciate the shares!
Basically i dont use any plugins or ping services. Only in feedburner i check Yes on the option which allows you to automatically ping to the search engines. Also i dont find any reason in editing the articles regularly.
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April 17, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Jack,
Not setting up a list to automatically ping your posts is a missed opportunity. Think of pinging as a way of drawing attention to your new content. If you’re not convinced, you could try installing the plugin that I mentioned and setting up the ping list that Jym Tarrant posted. After a month, check your statistics and see if you have an increase in traffic. As for not editing your articles regularly, I completely agree with you. The problem I encounter with over editing is the changes that I make before I hit that publish button. Once I publish my post, I rarely make edits to it.
Thanks for taking the time to join us.
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April 11, 2012 at 12:47 pm
It’s funny, but even though I knew that this was something I needed to do, it took your post ( as well as having an “aha” moment) to get me off my butt to do something about Pinging.
I have always practiced the art of saving a draft and walking away…coming back and checking everything before I publish, that way I have less worries.
Thanks for the timely reminder about an important topic!
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April 11, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Hi Diane,
Hopefully, preventing self-pinging will be incorporated into the core WordPress program someday. Some paid for plugins like CommentLuv Premium are already building this in.
Thanks for letting me know that my post motivated you to install the plugin. Sometimes, I’ll put off doing something too until another blogger writes a post about it and I’ll have an “aha” moment too.
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Scary, I had no idea that pinging too often could be a bad thing or that saving sent a ping every time! Thanks for posting this article and pointing out the plugin. Definitely something I am going to install on my WP blogs for now on. I also think it would be great if this was regulated by WP by default.
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April 11, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Hi Melanie,
I blogged for quite a while before I learned about this myself. Thanks for letting me know that you learned something new here.
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