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To Ping or Not To Ping

by RikiTTotal
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Should I ping my back links after setting them up?
Recently I've have been working on getting YouTube videos ranked and I have been pinging all the links with Ping-o-Matic! and getting great results.

However I tried the same approach and pinged all the back links to my website at once through Mass Pinger - Free and Unlimited Mass Ping Tool and then my site disappeared from Google.

What is best practice when pinging back links to a website and to YouTube videos?
It seems I can get videos ranked in a matter on hours, but I'm struggling to get my website ranked at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author jm1791
    it's not the change in tool that messed you up, it's your approach. if you're going to ping backlinks, ping them over time.
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  • Profile picture of the author online only
    If you need to "ping" your backlinks, you are doing it wrong.

    There's absolutely no need to ping them, Google should discover them naturally.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alex Brooks
      Originally Posted by online only View Post

      If you need to "ping" your backlinks, you are doing it wrong.

      There's absolutely no need to ping them, Google should discover them naturally.
      Pinging your backlinks allows Google to find them faster though, so if you want search engines to index the links quickly, obviously you do need to ping them
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    • Profile picture of the author DiggitySEO
      Originally Posted by online only View Post

      If you need to "ping" your backlinks, you are doing it wrong.

      There's absolutely no need to ping them, Google should discover them naturally.
      Quoted for truth.

      If you're getting your backlinks from quality sources (good PR/PA/DA) then they'll get indexed within a couple of days max anyways.
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  • Profile picture of the author tcrews
    Originally Posted by RikiTTotal View Post

    However I tried the same approach and pinged all the back links to my website at once through Mass Pinger - Free and Unlimited Mass Ping Tool and then my site disappeared from Google.
    I don't think pinging has anything to do with it. There should be something else to it. Regarding pinging, I generally bulid tier 2 links and ping them, instead of pinging tier 1 links.
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  • Profile picture of the author RikiTTotal
    So now that I've shot myself in the foot and made a bit of a mess of my site by pinging all my back links at once. Google is probably penalizing my site for spam links, is there anything I can do to reverse the mess I've made or what should I do next?
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Anton
    Pinging use to be great years ago, but now things such as link velocity and the power of the links (which usually means you have to link to weaker links) means allowing Google to index the pages "naturally" i.e. by finding it through links, not by simply notifying the search spiders that it merely exists (which is what pinging does).

    Hopefully you diversified your anchor text so the influx might not hurt you as much. I've noticed social network signals legitamize aggressive offpage SEO campaigns (makes sense if something is shared XXX times on facebook others might link to it).

    When all else fails, if there is a penalty you can disavow through google webmaster tools
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  • Profile picture of the author RedShifted
    It depends. If I'm ranking videos with spam or really any type of link I use indexification. YT videos can handle a crapload of links coming in fast so you're not risking anything.

    If I'm doing a blackhat site I will also use indexification. Pinging all by itself doesn't do much of anything.

    If I'm doing a clean, white hat site then I let G find the links.

    So it really depends on your goals.

    -RS
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Anton
    I would be careful with indexification RedShifted:
    "We ping all of Your backlinks individually and We repeat it multiple times for faster & better Indexing!"

    A more long term approach would be links to links, either manually building public web2.0 networks and social bookmarking accounts or using BacklinksIndexer
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  • Profile picture of the author AmanD
    I've never had a problem with pinging my links.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ronno99
    A link worth getting doesn't need to be pinged.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adamthomsoncontent writer
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    Ping is a good for indexing back link because Google take time to index back link if you want to get index fast then nuclear indexer is best for you to get your back links index instant.
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