Where to Ping and How Much is Too Much?

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I really want to know if there is a downside to pinging too much.

I have read many different opinions on this but would like to know any real world experiences not just opinions and guesses.

Should I just use a service like Ping.fm or should i get as many places to ping to as I can?

What if they (pinging services/aggregators) ping to the same places?

If I use more than one will it hurt me if they are getting multiple pings from my posts?

Thanks for any help you can give.

Tony
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  • Profile picture of the author anthonyrude
    I notice my title of this thread is the only one not in bold.

    Is that something only I see or did I forget to do something?
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  • Profile picture of the author ruch1v
    ok so pinging, usually occurs when you want to let the search engines know that you have new/updated content, I use pingomatic.com for this, although wordpress automatically does it for you apparently.



    As for ping.fm, that's more of a content syndicator that that distributes whatever you put in there to multiple web 2.0 properties, so if you wanted to change your facebook and twitter status to the same thing, that would be a quick and easy way to do so
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    • Profile picture of the author anthonyrude
      So are you saying that because wp auto pings I don't need to use an aggregator?

      Thanks for your reply I'm still a little confused.
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      • Profile picture of the author excuzemee
        Originally Posted by anthonyrude View Post

        So are you saying that because wp auto pings I don't need to use an aggregator?

        Thanks for your reply I'm still a little confused.
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        Everytime you submit new content, you ping it to let the search engines know that it's there, that's the point of pinging. once is good.

        Once the bots know about it, well.... they know about it, so more pinging is just a waste of time.

        I didn't know that about WP. I'd ping anyway. It's a good habit to get into.
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  • Profile picture of the author robbertpenny
    I been using pingler, pingoat and ping-o-matic, pinging is to be done only if you have made a new content on your site just inform serach portals that there are something in your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author microunique
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    ping o matic is enough.
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    • Profile picture of the author brendawyles
      If you want to publish your post in many social networking sites for just a click of one or two, ping.fm is a good idea since you'll need not to work on it manually one by one. However, you can also use or pingler.com.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea Wilson
    Okay, so if your site is set on wordpress you might want to past up on pinging. Wordpress does the pinging automatically, even when you just edited your posts! Sometimes pinging in wordpress is even over done because they ping even if there is no new content being posted so the use of ping optimizer is needed (a wp-plug in)

    Usage of pingomatic is enough for free pinging or you can also try ping.fm if you want to reach more of the social media. By the way another great tool for media marketing is pixelpipe. Not a pinging tool but updates media sites just the same whether you posted a video or an article.

    Hope that helps!

    Andrea
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