Is Pinging Still Okay?

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All of the threads on here about the sudden dangers of backlinking have me wondering about pinging an updated site or webpage to pingler, pingomatic, etc.

Is this still a safe thing to do or not?


Catherine
#search engine optimization #pinging
  • Hi Catherine,

    If you are not abusing pings (IE, pinging the same URL to the same service more than once) then it is fine. Basically you are just making spiders aware that there is new "food" for them.
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    • Catherine make sure you keep it 100% random.. over doing it or leaving patters is what will get you tripped up. Keep it random and you'll be good.
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  • Pinging your site or post is necessary for the spiders to find it. Just don't abuse it, but definately ping every post to at least 2 or 3 ping sites.
  • I prefer to set up a few bookmarks and let the spiders find it naturally.. I sort of have your concerns, too, like maybe pinging is too 'forced'.. but I really dont think it will hurt, just might not do as good as bookmarking.
  • yes pings are still pretty good to get the bots coming - but dont overdue it will result in bad endings. Try to use twitterfeed and tweet your urls you want to being indexed
  • Pinging is fine as long as you're not doing it everyday. Good luck.
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    Is Pinging Still Okay?

    All of the threads on here about the sudden dangers of backlinking have me wondering about pinging an updated site or webpage to pingler, pingomatic, etc. Is this still a safe thing to do or not?