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What Pinging Services Do You List in Your Writing Settings?

Some people say that all you need is Pingomatic while others say the more the better. Do you use the HUGE list of pinging services or do you just stick with Pingomatic? Can too much pinging end up hurting your blog?

amandak asked this questions on January 7th, 2009.

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Question answered by: Chetan

Date/Time: 1-7-2009 01:15:50 Reference: #1935

I just have a list of pinging services added in the settings of my blog, which ping those sites whenever i make a new post in my blog. This helps me avoid relying on sites like Pingoat and Pingomatic.

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Question answered by: John's Weight Loss Blog

Date/Time: 1-7-2009 06:28:31 Reference: #1940

Great question! I only use Pingomatic but I have seen references to those huge ping lists and I have always wondered whether I was missing out on something. I’m hoping for an authoritative answer too!

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Question answered by: Louis Liem

Date/Time: 1-7-2009 09:39:06 Reference: #1944

I use about 20 of them. Some time ago someone blogs on an updated list of pingers and suggested that we remove dead pingers.
I wonder what would happen if someone has about 100 webs to ping….

Better ranks or instant ban because of spamming?

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Question answered by: Nick Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 1-7-2009 16:34:26 Reference: #1957

For better or worse, the only one I use is the pingomatic one that is there by default. I can understand how a bit of diversification might be a good thing in case one quits working or something like that, but I don’t know that there would much benefit of using a huge list of them. You would probably just use a bunch more bandwidth and get flagged as an annoyance or spammer.

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Question answered by: Amaete Umanah

Date/Time: 1-8-2009 13:22:27 Reference: #1987

I actually list a whole bunch (134) in my Wordpress Blog and on occasions resort to the services of Pingler dot com. Pingler has 92 servers worldwide in which it pings. The last blog I made took 11 minutes to show up in Google.

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Question answered by: Nick Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 1-8-2009 19:45:08 Reference: #2005

That’s pretty impressive, but how much longer would it have taken with say 1/2 or 1/4 of those services? Also, are you talking about a new site or just a new post on an exisiting site, if this is in regards to a new post on an existing site, I might venture to say it could have been coincidence and that you just happened to post right before the Google crawler was scheduled to come to your site….

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Question answered by: Amaete Umanah

Date/Time: 1-9-2009 19:35:35 Reference: #2054

Nick, that is very good question with regards to how much longer it would take with 1/2 or 1/4 of those services. I will get back to you on that. With regards to my blog posts showing up in Google actually does happen in 11 minutes on all my blog posts. For the sake of experimenting, I have found that when I make a blog post on my blog and submit it to Digg at the same time, my blog posts are showing before Digg on Google. My blog posts are is on an existing site and not a new site. I do not think that it has anything to do with Google Crawler coming to my site or maybe.

Let me also add that I have bought a new domain and had it indexed in Google in 12 hours. I have only experimented with this once and it worked. I will try it again and see if my method of getting the site indexed in Google will work again. I am pretty sure it will.

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Question answered by: Nick Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 1-9-2009 22:15:46 Reference: #2062

Wow, these are some pretty cool results. If you have the time, would you mind dropping by http://www.romandock.com/contact/ and sharing some more detailed information as to your secrets so I too may have this kind of success? Don’t worry I won’t pass the information around

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Question answered by: Dennis Edell Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 1-9-2009 11:26:13 Reference: #2037

I use a rather large list, and don’t believe you will get penalized as long as you don’t duplicate.

With that said however, everyone should have a plugin installed like this one - http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/mpo/ - MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer.

What many bloggers still don’t realize is that by default Wordpress automatically pings after each new post, which is cool. What is not cool, is that it also auto-pings every time a post is edited/updated. This IS duplication and could surely bring you bad fortune…if it hasn’t already.

What I’d like to know is, how can you tell if you have been penalized/banned from ping services?

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Question answered by: Amanda

Date/Time: 1-9-2009 13:20:12 Reference: #2040

I was under the impression that newer versions of WP corrected the issue of pinging every time a post is edited/updated and now only ping when a post is published. Is this not the case?