Hello again. Keeping up with a sequel of Wordpress plugins posts, today, I’ll show you a plugin that prevents Worpress from pinging your blog’s update unnecessarily. You know, Worpress, by default, ping your blog every time you edit and save a post or page. More than unnecessary, this may also pose as a thread for your blog indexing, since you site may be flagged as spam, drastically reducing the odds of first page indexation, even on long tailed keywords.

I’ll start with a brief introduction of what ping means, for those who doesn’t know what I’m talking about. Then I’ll introduce this plugin I’m talking about, show you where and how to install it, and finally, how to configure it. I hope it can be useful for you.

Introduction

So, what is ping? Basically, all we need to know is that a ping works like some kind of signal your website send to search engines to tell them that it has been updated, as in you added new pages and posts. So, every time you use a ping service, you are informing search engines that there is new content on your website, so that they can send their “crawlers” to index your new pages, and so on.

cbnet Ping Optimizer

This plugin called cbnet Ping Optimizer will make Wordpress’s auto-ping function wiser. It will prevent Wordpress to ping your blog every time you edit a page, preventing your website to be flagged as spam. You can view more information about the plugin here.

To install it, just follow the standard procedure to install a plugin on Wordpress: login to your administrator section, click on “Plugins”, “Add New” and enter “cbnet Ping Optimizer” at the search form. Find the plugin on the results and click on “Install” and “Install Now” on the pop-up window.

Once the installation process is over, activate the plugin. You should be taken to the installed plugins list page. Find Ping Optimizer and click on “Settings”.

From the setting page, you can add more update services URI (find more sites here), choose to enable or disable pinging, perform a manual ping, and so on.

Once you are done customizing your installation, save your changes and there you go! It is already working as it should be. You are no longer in danger of getting banned from search engines due to excessive pings. You blog will ping only when you create a new post or page.