I have been using WordPress for about 2 years now. All this time, I left it to WordPress default settings to get my latest blog post updated with the major blog directories and blog search engines.

However, I didn’t realize that every time I save a published blog post, a ping is sent to http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ and this may cause ping spam or sping. So I installed the Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger to ensure that it will only ping once when I published my post and will not ping again when I edit and save the post.

So far, I found http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ very effective. In additional, I added http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to make sure that Google pinger server is updated with my latest post.

Here’s the step-by-step guide to verify that you have http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ in place and also add http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

WordPress 2.5 and above

1. At the Dashboard, click settings then select Writing
2. Scroll down to find the section Update Services, you should see http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ in the box
3. Add http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to the line below http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
4. Click Save Changes

Caution: Don’t use blogflux ping server, it is not working.