Can you 'ping' a site too much?

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I'm having an ongoing debate with a colleague as to whether you can ping a site too much. We have a client who is constantly updating his site with new content but some of the changes are only small, say one or two words on a page. Should he ping after every change to the site to let the crawlers know there's new content or only after substantial changes / additions have been made?
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  • Profile picture of the author TristanPerry
    Personally I think pinging is overrated overall. But yeah, pinging after every single update (even really minor ones like changing a few words) would be overkill.

    Just my $0.02.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rozanne
    Practically it is good to ping a site when you made substantial changes in your site. Pinging site after minor change makes no sense and it is waste of time as well. Better way is, your client should concentrate on unique and quality content so he will get good search engine results.
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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    You can ping a site too much if you use automated tools to ping 1000's of times in a minute, over and over again.

    You can't ping to much if you're just doing manual edits. It may not help but it doesn't hurt anything.

    Of course, some people use scare tactics to encourage you to sign up for their email list in exchange for a WordPress plugin that 'fixes' the problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author jhonsean
    Pinging is a tool that is very effective to update other sites and search engines. It must be use in a right way to perform its task well.
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  • Profile picture of the author somebody113
    doesn't take a lot of time, might as well
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