Are tools like "Pingler.com" actually useful...

by hayfj2
2 replies
...and effective? What are your thought on tools like pingler.com? Do they work and are they worth bothering about? Should we avoid them like the plague or are there good ones we should look out for and use?

Thanks
#pinglercom #tools
  • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
    Are they useful? No... Are they effective? Not at all. Can they Hurt? Sometimes.

    See, pinging used to be popular back in maybe 2005-2006 when it would take longer to get things indexed. Nowadays you don't even need a single backlink, ping, or anything on a new domain in order for it to get picked up and indexed.

    It has absolutely no SEO benefits nowadays, and never did really. I've argued against pinging pages with backlinks since 2011, but nobody believed me anyway.

    There's just no point to it.

    In some cases it can actually hurt you if you're doing mass pinging.
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  • Profile picture of the author misterme
    Besides which if you have a wordpress site it's probably already set to ping a couple of sites by default.
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