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Quick Question about Pinging

by seekyt
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By now, I know that it's not a matter of "should I"... I know that if there is anything that CAN be done to help with traffic, it SHOULD be done. So, I am now interested in using pinging services to help index my site - just found out about them a couple weeks ago.

My question is, am I only supposed to ping the top level of the site? I.e. mysite.com, or am I supposed to also be pinging individual pages? I.e. mysite.com/some-page

It seems like the whole point of pinging is to notify statistics sites that my content has been updated and is available. However, I have anywhere between 20-200 pages added on my site daily - so is pinging the top level of the domain all I need to do, since technically the entire site has been updated? Or am I supposed to ping EVERY specific page that I would like indexed, since every page is its own entity?

I use pingler, and am always looking for other pinging sites to use as well - but they seem to have the largest list of ping services available. Do you know of any better pinging services I should be using? I don't have a wordpress site, so any decent "auto pinging" software is out of the question for me. Thanks in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author edoho
    hi seekyt, beware over pinging, if you over ping pinging your site will not index by google, because over ping is spam,, you can use max blog pinger pluggin,,find it in the google, maybe you can use ping o matic,,
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    I use pingomatic.com - they have a toolbar feature. I ping whenever I put up a new post on a blog. I have pinged static pages as well - but only when I first put it up.

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  • Profile picture of the author Irnes Jakupovic
    If your using wordpress then you can set it up to the point where it pings each post for you automatically.

    Read this: Lightning Fast Indexing | Making Money Online
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    • Profile picture of the author seekyt
      Thanks everyone! So don't overping - but do ping other pages than the index/home page, right?
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  • Profile picture of the author Whiplash25
    Overpinging is very bad. Do not do it, I learned my lesson
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  • Profile picture of the author deuxlai
    Now i found out why some of my sites were not indexed. I kept pinging the same page cause I saw it not indexed (didnt know it only makes matter worse)
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      • Profile picture of the author connorbringas
        Well, there are lots of simple ways to destroy competitor sites. Its just not appropriate or proper to do so. Lets all have some morals and values here people.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          • Profile picture of the author Lifeimprovement
            SeekyT,

            Yes, you do want each post pinged whether it is the main page or deep page. Wordpress pings each blog post you submit.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lawrh
    Over pinging has nothing to do with Google, pinging itself has nothing to do with Google. Your pings go to aggregators which Google happens to check for new stuff.

    It is the aggregators that will start ignoring your pings if you are a twit. Any effect with search rank will happen much later, if at all, assuming pings aren't the only way you tell the world you have new content.

    Pings are great because the search engines check them regularly. Ping for speedy indexing. That's all.
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