To Ping or not to Ping, Automatically…

pinging pluginLast week I was reading an article by Courtney Tuttle, How Setting your blog to ping could hurt your traffic in which he explains that using the timestamp feature actually pings the services ahead of time, sending all searchengines to your site looking for a post that does not yet exist in blogosphere and once it does, it won´t get the ping you set out to give it in the first place.
I haven´t been using the timestamp feature on this blog, but I had been using it on others, making sure they were updated on a regular bases in order for me to be able to focus on other things meanwhile.

After reading the article, and doing some more research online about this topic, I decided to not ping automatically on the timestamped articles anymore but instead do the pinging manually, yet another thing on my daily to-do list …

After a few days pinging manually I figured somebody must have already become fed up with this wordpress flaw and made some sort of plugin to optimize pinging so I went back online to do some research and I found a plug that should do the job: The Ping Optimizer.

This plugin will not only make sure you are sending out pings once your post comes online but when you edit an existing post, it won’t send an unnecessary ping to ping services.

So, from now on I can go back to working ahead safely, without having to worry about upsetting pinging services or pissing them off by admitting the same post “over and over again” when editing an existing post.

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16 Responses to To Ping or not to Ping, Automatically…

  1. There is also a service called Autopinger that pings only when you have a new item in your feed. I forget how often it checks. That may be a solution too. I used this for a little while and then went back to letting WordPress ping.

    Stephan Miller’s last blog post..Success, One Mistake at a Time

  2. Thanks for the link Mirjam!

    I’ve never tried to use the timestamp feature in order to post in the future, but now that I think about it it is pretty messed up. Will certainly use this plugin.

    Too bad you didn’t described in brief what was the problem, ‘cuz I had to go all the way to Courtney’s blog and read the whole thing before I understood… :cool:

    Cheers,
    Alex.

    Alex at Net-Entrepreneur.com’s last blog post..Those Little Things That Make You Happy

  3. Mirjam says:

    Thanks for the tip, looks like one worth checking out. Just wondering though, why did you go back to letting wordpress ping?

  4. Mirjam says:

    :oops: you are right, I should have, will do next time when I am all 100% up again (thanks for the kick in the a** ;) )

    I only used the timestamp once on this blog, but over the weekend I thought about using it more as a back up system seeing I was sick and could not post at all.

    Thanks for you comment Alex :)

  5. I went back to WordPress so I can pick and choose who I pinged. In other words, my list of ping sites was longer.

    Stephan Miller’s last blog post..Success, One Mistake at a Time

  6. Mirjam says:

    Thanks for answering Stephan :)
    So you manually ping when having used a timestamp and check “no ping” when editing a post already public to avoid being banned from pingservices or do you feel it is not that big of a problem?

  7. Nice article there Mirjam, thanks for that plugin link to. :smile:

    Carl – Thatblogsite.com

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  8. Thanks for the advice!
    I never thought that the automatic ping could be a problem :???:

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  9. Mirjam says:

    you´re welcome Carl :)

  10. Mirjam says:

    Welcome to my blog Cayo, and thanks for commenting,
    Learning new things every day ;)

  11. Was not aware that it pings again and again whenever I update a post.

    Thanks for the post and the link, Mirjam. Downloaded & installed. :-)

    Marcus Hochstadt’s last blog post..Free Blog vs. Your Own Blog

  12. I had no idea pinging worked like that. I just discovered my (huge) error of accidentally adding a number of pinging services that caused redundancy, and now it turns out I’m committing this error, too.

    Lots still left to learn. Thanks for the advice and for the plugin link!

    Brian, Accepted To College’s last blog post..Top 10 Most Common SAT Grammar Errors

  13. Mirjam says:

    :oops: thanks, you are very welcome!

  14. Mirjam says:

    Glad to have been of help Brian, I only recently found out so I thought I´d pass it on! You are right, there is so much to learn …. I just wonder what my blog will look like in a year!
    Thanks for commenting!

  15. Hello… I try this pluggin, Thanks for this excelent post.

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  16. Ivy says:

    I didn’t know this. Thanks for the heads up. :D

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