Smart Update Pinger
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If you have a WordPress-powered blog, protect yourself from blogging and pinging your way to online notoriety with the help of the Smart Update Pinger plugin.
When you create a new post in WordPress, the program pings or informs other servers that you have posted something new in your blog. It helps get the word out about your site, and there are places on the web that list the title of your new post. Sometimes, that title is a clickable link that leads back to your blog. As a result, you get more traffic.
If you're a normal human being, your post will contain typos. So you go in and edit your post and click on "Save" and WordPress pings those other servers again. Yes, even if you just added a letter "s" to a single word in your post. No problem.
But what if you spot another typo? Or you decide to reword that first sentence? The cycle of edit and ping continues. Do you think those pinged servers will be happy when they visit your site and see no appreciable change?
Protect yourself from being accused of ping-spamming. Install the Smart Update Pinger, so that only new posts will trigger the ping. You can then edit your old posts to your heart's content, safe in the knowledge that you will no longer annoy those other servers with your numerous typo pings.
UPDATE: Christian Davén is no longer maintaining his Smart Update Pinger plugin. There's another version from Ultimate Plugins, though, which ads quite a bit of functionality:
1. For future posts, services are only pinged when the post has appeared on your blog
2. Reverse (newest entries first) logging
3. More detailed ping & error logging
4. Auto-selects whether to do an extended or normal ping depending on server capability
5. For extended pings, it uses the new URL instead of just the homepage URL to ping (resulting in a much higher quality ping)
6. Works for all WP 2.0+ releases.
If you want to give the Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger a try, then download the plugin at
http://ultimateplugins.com/smart-update-pinger
(NOTE: To be able to install the Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger, you will need to subscribe to their mailing list first.)
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"Smart Update Pinger"
First Posted: March 13, 2007 | Filed in: General
This is great information to share and know. Thanks.
I'm going to check it now.
Thanks very much for the information on this plugin, I couldn't really understand why it's needed.
Would you by chance have a list of recommended ping services?
Thanks again,
Greg
Hi Greg! If you're using the latest version of WP, you no longer need this plugin. As for ping services, I use either pingoat or pingomatic.
Sorry for the late reply Manuel, thanks for clearing it up.
I came across an interesting post regarding a new way to get listed and get linkbacks. So just to share with you:
http://www.bluehatseo.com/quit-quick-indexing-tool/
Cheers
Greg
Good day! While this information may be a little dated, I've also found that Smart Update Pinger is no longer updated for use with wordpress 2.1 and above.
Check out this article for more information about this:
http://www.maxblogpress.com/blog/211/important-message-smart-update-pinger/
You can also use the MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer as a replacement for the Smart Update Pinger.