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Originally Posted by JD

Could someone tell me all I have to know about pinging in one easy lesson??

Maybe

Originally Posted by JD

So pinging is when you publish a post on WP and it sends out 'pings' to certain sites to let them know your blog is updated yeh?

Yep

Originally Posted by JD

So I notice some of you guys say to turn off auto pinging in wordpress because you can get banned? Whats all this about, who bans you and why do they do this?

This isn't something to be concerned about if your just doing a post or two a day. If your going crazy and posting a bunch, the services you ping tend to get a little cranky if you continually ping them before they have a chance to spider your blog and those services may or may not ban you. Or they will consider you a spammer and ban your for that. I have auto-ping enabled and have never had a problem.

Originally Posted by JD

Do I need to turn off pinging on my blogs and manually ping????

Depends on the above and how often you post. I don't know of a limit or if it actually exists but to be on the safe side I would do whatever it takes to ensure I didn't ping more than a few times a day

Originally Posted by JD

And from what i understand now, if I use the post timestamp on wordpress I need to use a spacial ping plugin as wordpress wont ping when it puts those posts live?

I personally wouldn't consider using timestamps on wordpress. There are still just too many issues with it to make it worth attempting, IMHO. I use a third party script to do future posts and since WP pings when a new post is entered into the database I still get things pinged. There was a post not to long ago which listed a number of third party options but I'm too lazy to go looking for it.

But you are correct, you do need a special plugin for pinging from time stamps.

Originally Posted by JD

thanks guys

Your welcome