Get those engines updated!

All your post updates are relayed through the WordPress Foundation owned Ping-o-Matic!, which is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated. This happens pretty quickly giving your site a pretty good turn-around time for search engine updates.

The coolest thing about it is you really don’t need to do anything. This has been pushed out across WordPress.com and already available to everyone. If you’re not interested in getting your updates pushed you’re in luck, this only applies to public sites.

WordPress.com is doing some pretty cool stuff to get you in a position to increase your page ranks easier. Check out the full post about the new sitemap ping capability which includes info about other things WordPress.com is doing for you as well as other resource links.

Do you think this will help you and your site out? Let us know what you think about the new feature and others you’d like to see added. We’d love to hear your comments.

This plugin does a great job because of all the options it provides. Here are a few features I really love about this plugin:

• Post Priority (this is especially useful, even more so if you have Popularity Contest enabled)
• Auto-detects the sitemap location
• Options to include or exclude specific content types (example, posts, categories, archives, tag pages, etc)
• Easy to change the frequency for robots to re-crawl pages (example, Daily, Monthly, Yearly, etc)
• Easy to change the priority level for each content type

Here’s a screenshot of what the primary options will look like.

Download link: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-sitemap-generator.zip