Pinging?

[johnnybg]

I'm not sure about frequent pinging and bans on pinging services.

That's something I read somewhere and I want to be safe. I prefere to learn from other peoples mistakes, not my own.

I believe that banning frequent pingers is not logical. I mean, ping services are there just to be pinged. I also believe that spammy content will result in a ban. When frequent pings are mixed with spam content then you WILL get in trouble with ping services.

Then again I have no proof for anyting in this matter.

Some sources state that more than half pings from all blogs are so called "spings" or "spam pings". Since it is becoming a big problem I try to stay away from being interpreted as a "spinger".

[ronnie]

Originally Posted by johnnybg

I'm not sure about frequent pinging and bans on pinging services.

That's something I read somewhere and I want to be safe. I prefere to learn from other peoples mistakes, not my own.

I believe that banning frequent pingers is not logical. I mean, ping services are there just to be pinged. I also believe that spammy content will result in a ban. When frequent pings are mixed with spam content then you WILL get in trouble with ping services.

Then again I have no proof for anyting in this matter.

Some sources state that more than half pings from all blogs are so called "spings" or "spam pings". Since it is becoming a big problem I try to stay away from being interpreted as a "spinger".

The services that take pings are automated software, how can they check content? Even SE bots, can not really say what is spammy content. Not to mention, resouces being used or abused by over pinging.

Good content takes time to create. In my mind some one creating tons of content each day, (ping per post) is likely a spammer. Not perfect, but what else is there to go by?

[walrus]

Originally Posted by ronnie

The services that take pings are automated software, how can they check content? Even SE bots, can not really say what is spammy content. Not to mention, resouces being used or abused by over pinging.

Good content takes time to create. In my mind some one creating tons of content each day, (ping per post) is likely a spammer. Not perfect, but what else is there to go by?

Pingoat, one of the larger pinging services does have some type of algo that catchs spam blogs. Don't know how they do it and I know it's not 100% since it used to catch one of my sites that wasn't even adult and had no advertising on it but it's there and even made an API available for other service to use their blacklist.

They've lightened up on things a little bit and as long as your not using an auto-pinger you can get your blogs pinged even if it is spam.