September 22, 2011 | Interesting Web Sites

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One of the most important things in determining if a website feels fast to your customers/audience is latency: the amount of time it takes a packet to get to a remote server and back. You can figure out the latency from your computer to the remote server with the ping tool in Windows and Linux. [...]

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February 9, 2010 | Blogging

WordPress

The cbnet Ping Optimizer Plugin for WordPress allows you to avoid pinging blog indexing services too often too soon, which could get your blog banned for spammy behavior.

Here’s the step-by-step process for installing the plugin.

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February 8, 2010 | Blogging

WordPress

When you publish a post, WordPress tells a number of blog indexing services about it.

But it also does that every time you update the post, which for me is often five times in 10 minutes after publishing.

If ping them too many times, they can ban you for spammy behavior.

So, how do you avoid getting banned?

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