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Ping.fm, Pingomatic, Posterous

by trnz
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Hi, I'm using the three programmes. As I study the posts here, I am thinking
that I am doing the wrong thing? Should I get rid of one or even two? If so which? I'm bothered about being rated as a blog spammer. I also read that if you edit a Wordpress.com post a few times, each time you do, it goes out to my pingers and this is also rated as spamming? Can anybody please advise?
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#pingfm #pingomatic #posterous
  • Profile picture of the author TheArticlePros
    I'll preface this and say that I don't use WP.com...I'd rather own my site than rent it from someone else.

    Outside of that, yes, every time you edit a post, it gets re-pinged. Post-Penguin, that's a bad thing. Install this plugin:

    WordPress › cbnet Ping Optimizer « WordPress Plugins

    It keeps WP from pinging your blog all over the place, which keeps you from looking like a spammer. Since Penguin hit, I have pinged any of my sites...I only ping from Tier 2 back.

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    • Profile picture of the author williamk
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      Originally Posted by JaRyCu View Post

      I'll preface this and say that I don't use WP.com...I'd rather own my site than rent it from someone else.

      Outside of that, yes, every time you edit a post, it gets re-pinged. Post-Penguin, that's a bad thing. Install this plugin:

      WordPress › cbnet Ping Optimizer « WordPress Plugins

      It keeps WP from pinging your blog all over the place, which keeps you from looking like a spammer. Since Penguin hit, I have pinged any of my sites...I only ping from Tier 2 back.

      -- j
      Thanks for the tip Jay. I was looking for a solution to this for some time too.
      Going to give it a try right now.
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    • Profile picture of the author trnz
      Originally Posted by JaRyCu View Post


      Outside of that, yes, every time you edit a post, it gets re-pinged. Post-Penguin, that's a bad thing. Install this plugin:
      [url=http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cbnet-ping-optimizer/]WordPress › cbnet Ping Optimizer « WordPress Plugins[/url-- j
      I was concerned over this problem and I clicked this link but Wordpress do not recommend this plug in.
      Are there any other plugins that do it?
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  • Profile picture of the author feelgoodtime
    I use pingler for wordpress
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  • Profile picture of the author azmanar
    Hi,

    Thank you for not Blog Spamming anymore. Appreciate it very much. God Bless You !

    I'm a bit confused though, about your concern on letting pingers ping after making changes on articles.

    Unless you're updating the same pages hundreds of times EVERYDAY, why would you worry? To me it is a good effort in updating RSS & SEs, so spiders can crawl.

    Not an expert. But what I understand from several videos by Google's Matt Cutt's about PENGUIN is different and part of the process do require pinging.

    Those affected by PENGUIN and want to climb back in SERPs need to update their content: -> from Low Value To Higher Value.

    Thus entails :
    1. Inserting more content - elements and facts into existing pages or
    2. Reducing the flood of keywords in the articles to a sensible proportion
    2. Combining 2 or 3 articles together to add more meat to topics
    3. Throwing out hidden text and "unstuffing" meta keywords & descriptions

    All those efforts require pinging after making changes to get spiders' attention.

    So I don't see why we need to worry.

    Or am I so ignorant that I should in fact worry about this "ping" matter?
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    • Profile picture of the author TheArticlePros
      Originally Posted by trnz View Post

      I was concerned over this problem and I clicked this link but Wordpress do not recommend this plug in.
      Are there any other plugins that do it?
      They don't recommend it simply because it hasn't been updated. It still works just fine and does exactly what it's meant to do. That's all I care about.

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      • Profile picture of the author azmanar
        Originally Posted by JaRyCu View Post

        They don't recommend it simply because it hasn't been updated. It still works just fine and does exactly what it's meant to do. That's all I care about.

        -- j
        Hi J,

        WP doesn't ping by itself. The ping URLs need to be set at the Update Services to ping.

        So even without the plugin, the ping process can be halted by just deleting the list of ping URLs.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    Originally Posted by trnz View Post

    Hi, I'm using the three programmes. As I study the posts here, I am thinking
    that I am doing the wrong thing? Should I get rid of one or even two? If so which? I'm bothered about being rated as a blog spammer. I also read that if you edit a Wordpress.com post a few times, each time you do, it goes out to my pingers and this is also rated as spamming? Can anybody please advise?
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    1. Ping.fm died yesterday is is no longer in service.

    2. Ping.fm and Posterous offer totally different services than Pingomatic. Pingomatic notifies selected resources that updates have been made, while Ping.fm (used to) and Posterous syndicate content to Web 2.0 and sharing sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author getano
    Ping.fm doesn't exist anymore and Posterous is from what I recall a web 2.0 website that is now aquired by twitter.
    The only service used for pinging is pingomatic. Long story short, forget about pinging your posts! It's crap. Also it's a good thing Ping.fm doesn't exist anymore! From what I've tested, it shows a trail for Google and you could easily get banned.
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  • Profile picture of the author Walt Hass
    I just found out the hard way about pingfm. I really depended on it and spend alot of time setting up all my accounts. It is too bad they decided to let us all down. I guess that is what I get relying on a free service.
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    • Profile picture of the author getano
      Originally Posted by Walt Hass View Post

      I just found out the hard way about pingfm. I really depended on it and spend alot of time setting up all my accounts. It is too bad they decided to let us all down. I guess that is what I get relying on a free service.
      Don't worry about Ping.fm. I doesn't bring you any benefits. It was just another way you could get banned by Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author chykee
    There is nothing as bad as learning this the hard way Walt, just try and make sure it doesn't repeat itself
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  • Profile picture of the author hostwindsEvanM
    Would it be better or worse to have additional ping/notification resources?
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    • Profile picture of the author getano
      Originally Posted by hostwindsEvanM View Post

      Would it be better or worse to have additional ping/notification resources?
      Google is able to find out quick about new content on your website. The pinging services are not only useless, but also they could really harm you
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