If you have played with wordpress and you will know about Ping List. Ping list is a list of server that use to notify search engine that our blog has a new post or edited entries.

I remembered I’ve posted about ping list/update services in this blog. If you look into that post, you’ll find a small list of update services that I took from several reliable sources in 2007. Since the internet grow fastly, that list is also growing and become more crowded now:

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.britblog.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://rpc.pingomatic.com (double)
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

See? It’s a whole new set of ping services that you can use to ping your blog. But what I’m going to tell you is not about how useful this ping service is. This service is actually ‘dangerous’ if you don’t use it carefully.

How dangerous? Your blog could be banned. Yes, B-A-N-N-E-D!

One of my friend (who have a decent skills in SEO) advised me to take a special care on this subject. He saw through my bad habit in writing (lots of correction after publishing a post) and warn me to take off the ping list from update service option and ping manually using pingomatic or use a plugin to solve this problem.

At first, I don’t see where is the problem located. But after he explain it to me, I finally realized how silly am I and how LUCKY I am! (Not being banned although I ping so many times!)

Editing a post after publishing will make the ping services to re-ping my blog to the exact big list of ping server which I’ve shown you above.

This trigger an “alert” at those ping server because of a ping spamming is most likely happening on my blog. I’m not sure how many times of pinging is indicated as spamming, but I’m sure that editing a post twice after you hit the publish button is extreme dangerous.

The easiest solution is to use plugin called Smart Update Pinger. It has the capability to disable update service to ping your post when you edit published posts. Smart Update Pinger also ping your future / timestamped post, which the current Wordpress is not capable of doing so.

Although it’s dangerous, using this service properly can give you a good result. What good result? There is a possibility that your post is indexed within 7 minutes!

Want to know how? Check out what’s Robert Lang tips to Get Published in Google in 7 minutes. Hope it’s useful for you.

Best luck for you!

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