Does this plugin ping search engines?
No. While other XML Sitemap plugins provide pinging to some search engines upon each post edit or publication, this plugin does not. There are two reasons for that: • WordPress has a built-in pinging feature. Go in your WP Admin section to Settings > Writing and make sure that the text area under Update services contains at least http://rpc.pingomatic.com. Read more on Ping-O-Matic about what excellent service you are actually getting for free with every WordPress blog installation! • For the average website, in my experience, pinging Google or others after each little change does not benefit anything except a theoretical smaller delay in re-indexation of your website. This is only theoretical because if your site is popular and active, major search engines will likely be crawling your site on a very regular basis anyway. And if, on the other hand, your site is not high on the agenda of the major search engines, they will likely give no priority to your pings at all. You can always tak
