It’s a surprise to many WordPress users that by default, your WordPress blog is vulnerable to being banned from popular Ping services. Let me explain…
Each time a page/post on your blog is created or edited it will notify Ping services that they should crawl your site to discover new content. But let’s face it, how many times have you had to edit a post within a short time frame to make revisions? Probably too many times – and once Ping services are repeatedly notified within a short time period they will not hesitate to blacklist your site.
Why Are Ping Services So Valuable?
Ping services notify many spiders such as GoogleBot that your site has fresh content ready to be indexed. This feature is extremely valuable in getting your content out there and indexed by search engines.
Preventing Ping Service Bans
Luckily there are a few plugins that can solve this issue. cbnet Ping Optimizer (free plugin) is by far the most comprehensive solution to this problem. It functions by withholding Pings that occur unnecessarily so your site will stay on the good side of Ping services. I strongly recommend using this plugin on all of your WordPress sites, as I do myself.
Maximize Your Ping List
In about 10 seconds you can update your Ping service list to include 140 networks. Read my post on Best Sites To Ping.
I hope this article was helpful. Please do yourself a favor and prevent your site from being blacklisted by downloading cbnet Ping Optimizer. You can have this plugin up and running within a few minutes.
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