When you write the post, WordPress sends out a ping. When you take a look at what you posted and see an error, it pings again when you correct that error. If you do that a few times, the auto-ping settings of WordPress can get you banned for ping spamming.

Solution — install a free WordPress plugin like “MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer” plugin which changes the settings so that only the original post gets pinged. All the subsequent edits dont get pinged.

A NICE FEATURE

If you future-date your posts (for example, if you write 7 posts over the weekend and set them to display one new post per day), then MaxBlogPress will send the ping when the post appears – not when you write it.

The new version of this handy plugin is now available. Here is a quick list of the new features added:

* Limit excessive pinging for frequently updated blog

* Get rid of useless ping services and save your blog from making unnecessary pings

* Know which ping service supports extended ping and which does not

* Know instantly when the blog was pinged and when it was stopped for unnecessary pinging

* Clear the ping log easily

* Now you can ping a huge number of ping services as well

Check it out with screenshots at Pawan Agrawal’s blog…
http://www.maxblogpress.com/blog/109/mpo-22-features/

This should be part of every blogger’s plugins collection. And yes, it’s FREE.

Thanks, Pawan.