WordPress Can Ban Your Blog From Over Pinging!

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Ugly But Me

This is nothing to do with Dogs---
Only I found out every time I up dated or changed a post I was getting pinged-10 days ago I up dated 5 posts and got a problem---

There are many blog directories and ping services which accept pings. When you add a new post in your blog, it sends a ping to all these websites saying,

"Hey, I've just added a new post in my blog--
"Whenever a blog pings, many background processes happen which get your blog quickly indexed by search engines as well as bringing traffic from many other sources."
And that's when magical things happen:

* Some of those websites add your blog in their directory giving you a one way link.

* Some of those websites list your blog in their recently updated blog list.

* Search engines quickly come to your blog, index it and start sending traffic.

* Blog search engines like Google Blog Search, Yahoo Search Blog, etc... also crawl and index your blog which in turn send additional traffic.

* People visiting those blog directories see your blog there and come to your blog.

* Blogrolling scripts like blogrolling.com and WordPress check update services to see if you've updated and then they reflect that on everyone's site, usually by moving you to the top of people's blogrolling list or putting a recently updated indicator by your link.

* Services like Technorati (http://technorati.com) spider your links to tell who is linking to you and who you're linking to, almost in real time. If you show up on someone's Technorati link list for their site (often called an "egorati search") they're likely to visit your site to see what you said, increasing your exposure.

* Other sites likeweblogs.com and blogs list the most recently updated blogs and many people browse these to find something new when they're bored.

By default WordPress pings whenever you post a new topic in your blog. That's fine and that's what we want.

But do you know WordPress also pings whenever you edit and update any existing post?

If you edit a post 10 times then WordPress will send 10 pings. It doesn't matter how small or big a change you make, WordPress always pings whenever you edit.

IT'S VERY DANGEROUS and if you edit your blog a lot then your blog will be banned from ping services because of excessive pinging.

While pinging there's no way to show which post has been updated. The ping command always sends the home page link of the blog.

So, it's simply useless and actually harms your blog if you ping whenever you update any existing post.
I have found a free Plugin that stops this and gives you a log of pings sent and pings held back-Brilliant for me as I have a tendency to change my posts to make them look better--
Any way Download the plugin in here-- MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer You just unzip the file and upload to WordPress-If you are not sure how to do this the plugin comes with a great how to do it file and support-
After you install it:

* When you create a new post, your blog will ping and notify all the ping services that it has been updated. This encourages search engines and different blog directories/services to index your updated blog properly.

* When you edit an existing post, it won't send an unnecessary ping to ping services and saves your blog from getting banned.

* When you post a future post by editing the time stamp, it will ping only when your post appears in future. It won't unnecessarily ping many times when you schedule posts as WordPress does by default.

If you get in trouble email me very simple to set up and FREE.
Sure it will help us all.

MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

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