Recently, I did a custom project for my dear friend Rose whom most of you may know as LiL MiSs. She and I go back years to when I was running graphic lists on AOL.

Her new site, a blog, which you can read here was custom designed by me. In helping her setup a few of the plugins I needed her to run for her custom theme I noticed something that I have seen happen often with a few different bloggers.

She was disabling pinging on every single post. Have you met this cute little box here on your write post screen in your WordPress admin panel?

Really, you shouldn’t really mess with this unless you have the need or desire to not have people leaving comments on your blog. Otherwise, generally speaking, leave it alone.

There are several reasons why people may or may not want pinging happening on their blogs. But let me state this before I get into the rest of this – if you’re trying to earn a dime with your blog, I highly suggest you allow pinging.

A ping sent out when your blog is updated is like a red flag for search engines to spider. Haven’t you noticed that Technorati has a lot of your most recent posts? Good, this is enabling people to find you.

More pings=more traffic=more search engine indexing=more money.

Do you see the chain reaction?

If you enable people to find your blog, you enable them to fall in love with the content that you have written.

Have a look inside of your Dashboard for your WordPress blog and you’ll see under Options > Writing that your blog, by default pings the following URL: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/.

THIS IS GOOD.

What I have added in addition to that is for my blog to ping 2 additional URLS:

Technorati: http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
Google: http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

The more search and blog engines that are picking me up, the better. More links back to my blog increases page rank as well.

However, my thought for bringing this up wasn’t to call out Rose. But to shine my small humble light on the idea that you may want to understand and know inside out what functions are before disabling them. Especially when something is attempting to work for you.

Are there down sides to pining? Of course there are. But not enough for me to spend the time pointing them out here. But, feel free to point out anything you wish with a comment.

My intention is not to have you stop doing what you’re doing. My intention to have you start understanding and knowing what you’re doing before you do it.

If after you read any information you can find on pinging and you still want to disable them for each post, please be my guest. At least I’ll know that I’ve said my piece.

In the meantime, feel free to take the above URLs to Technorati and Google and include them for your blog to ping next time you post. You may just see then how a ping can help you.

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