Pinging On Blogs installed on subfolders
 

Just had a quick question regarding pinging on blogs created in subfolders. I have a blog network going, but I wanted to try b2evolution and use one domain as a weird micro-niche type fetishes, etc, type stuff. Instead of getting multiple domains for it I was going to do:

onedomain.com - main page

onedomain.com/fetishblog1
onedomain.com/fetishblog2
onedomain.com/fetishblog3

etc.

Would I run into any issues having those fetish blogs pinged everyday with posts or should I just ping the mainpage and let a sitemap / spiders take care of it?

Yahoo has stated it will respond to 5000 a day per IP. From the XXX Blog Index domain I ping everyone around 150 times a day with no adverse affects.

So I think you'd be safe.

Wow, I didn't know that. Thanks Walrus :)

Holy Mother of God...Do you update that often? Or can you just randomly ping when you feel like it?
I usually ping every time I add a new post, or update an older one. For some stupid reason, I thought you could get blacklisted for pinging if your blog or site was not updated when you initiated the ping OR the ping was only accepted when you updated.
Can you actually get blacklisted from like Technorati, google, yahoo etc for 'spam' pinging?
I may just be missing something obvious and I believe I need to learn a bit more about pinging...please indulge.

Actually it's kind of hard to really estimate the count but on that domain I have a quasi-Social Book Mark site that has 67 categories. Each category gets updated once a day. Since each category does have multiple feeds it's possible that I ping more than once per category update since WP is supposed to do that automatically with each added post but I figure the info is getting added so quickly when the script reads the feeds and then adds the post that some pings don't go through.

In a folder, on the same domain, I have a mass splog using every sponsors feed I can find and updating about 80 categories daily with one post a day.

Urban myth has it that if you ping too many times it can cause you to get banned but I believe that as long as an update has occurred there is no harm in pinging. Yahoo and what I'm doing on my own domains seem to prove that out.

BTW Yahoo does not say you'll get banned only that they won't process more than 5k

Technorati does have some means they use for determining your producing nothing but spam. I'm not sure what it is but I know it's not a ping thing and if they do determine you blog is spam they will quit processing your pings. This is probably how the urban myth about excessive pinging got started.

As long as I keep getting "G" and "Y" traffic, I assume they haven't blacklisted anything yet.

Thanks for that explanation, much appreciated.

Thanks for the info Walrus. I don't have a huge network of blogs, maybe 15 at the moment custom written, but I was nervous about pinging especially since Wordpress throws out some unnecessary pinging (future posts, editing posts, etc).

I started using MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer plugin and I've been pretty pleased to ease my mind a little about ping spamming by accident. It allows you to ping at intervals, so, for one blog that I was updating 3 times a day...I'd set it the timer on it to only ping twice. However, lol, I don't think I have to worry so much about it.