Perhaps you have heard of the Google’s pubsubhubbub protocol (PuSH for short) that was unveiled last year. It is basically an extension of an RSS. Instead of Google and other various services pinging your site for new content, they can subscribe to your site; you tell them when the new content is published, and they can display it as soon as it is published.
Recently WordPress has introduced the PuSHPress plugin, which adds the PuSH hub to your blog. So what does that mean for you? Simply by installing this plugin you’re opening up your blog to get indexed almost instantaneously by Google Search, and picked up by other services, such as Google Reader, Netvibes, FriendFeed, and many others. New sites are starting to use this protocol every day. So every time you publish a new blog post it can be picked up in real time by all these websites. Best of all, there is nothing to configure. Just simply install the plugin and it works.
So, if you have a WordPress blog, or a developer who builds these sites, adding the PuSHPress plugin seems to be a must nowadays. Perhaps it will become a permanent part of WordPress in later version. In the future, this protocol may be used by countless applications that we cannot yet imagine. If you run a custom built blog, check out the Google’s code page on how to add the PuSH protocol to your website.
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This is a good development for the web in general especially to get updates in real time. Also reduces all that pinging.
Yes, most definitely. Everything on the web seems to be moving to the real time now.
Hi Victor,
Thanks a lot for letting us know.
Really very useful plugin.
Lena & Dima
Publishers, InternetBusinessBTS.com
Glad you guys found it useful
Seems like everything is changing really fast even in the ??? stable structure of Google.
Nice moves to me!
Thanks for sharing that good news!
Oh, how wonderful it is! i've been waiting for this update for rather long time:) Thanks for this pleasant news:)
I installed this, and it still took the average half hour (using feedburner) for it to show up in Google reader. Have only tested one post so far, but I was disappointed.
Donna,
Feedburner should has its own pubsubhubbub implementation. You may need to enable it in the feedburner account or check the configuration. Perhaps this will help: http://jungleg.com/2009/07/27/pubsubhubbub-wordpr…
Will definitely have to try this plugin.
Evelina
I'll give a try to this toll – thanks for sharing it here:)
Google is always ahead of time and ahead of other IT companies! That’s why google stays heads and shoulders above the rest…
Agreed. Google is really trying to get into the ‘real-time’ web in all of their aspects.
Just installed this plugin to one of the blogs. Will see if it increases traffic by any %age…