Is it just me, or do most sponsor feeds totally suck?

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Bill

It is kinda fascinating to watch a splog make page after page from feeds.

It seems to me there's a clear risk of getting banned if you let the splog ping. I've disabled pinging as I test various feeds. But what do you think is workable - could a blog doing syndication of feeds like this ping pingomatic and not get banned?

This is not meant as factual information, just my personal observations and research. Pingomatic is more like a simple relay system, passing your ping from place to place so they would actually not figure into the equation when it comes to banning.

But that does not mean that those receiving your ping via the relay (Pingomatic) could not ban you for spamming them. Although I do believe that since these places do live in the blog environment they would not typically ban over a single day of excessive pinging only if a pattern of excessive pinging evolved.

As a precaution, I will always disable pings while initially loading the feeds and then do a manual ping though pingomatic.

After that initial "blog loading" I have yet to see even a group of feeds (3-5) that would cause an issue.

If I am just evaluating feeds for their fitness, I use a desktop feed reader rather than an actual blog. I determine which feeds I think will work well together and compliment each other and then build a splog around them.

Since I get more social bookmark action on a couple of my splogs than I do on my real blog, it seems the only issue may actually be the SE's and duplicate content....but you could evaluate that much better than me.