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Originally Posted by Lucifuge
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.
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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.