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By: jeflin

jeflin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:17:21 +0000

Thanks for the ping list.

I will go slow on the pings though just in case, too much of a good thing turns out to be even worse serps.

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By: PB

PB — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:22:34 +0000

@ Ray: I’m not sure if Blogger will allow you to perform your own pings. I’ll have to look into that a bit more. Thanks for the compliment, look forward to seeing more of ya around here!

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:02:34 +0000

Is there a way to add this list to Blogger? Maybe as a widget? Someone please let me know….

Thanks

By the way…..awesome site!

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5 Great Ways to Lose Page Rank | The Piss Biscuit — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:22:23 +0000

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By: JK Swopes

JK Swopes — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:01:36 +0000

@PB

I use ping optimizer by maxblogpres, it handles that problem. By default, as you know, Wordpress pings on each edit, and if you do any post scheduling, it will ping when you save the draft, not when they actually post.

Maxblogpress pingoptimizer will only ping when you publish the post, it will not ping no matter how many times you edit…

Check it out man, you’ll love it! I have been using it since a little after I started my self hosted blog….I edit things a lot sometimes, or I’ll come back and change something after writing it the night before

I use quite a few of their plugins man, love em…tell me what you think

http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/mpo/

Let me know if you use it man or what you think about the way it works, it seems to work well for me…you can even see when it pings, what servers, and what times… I love it!

By: PB

PB — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:20:49 +0000

No, I’ve got those included on all my blogs as well. Some SEO’s are under the impression that multiple pings within a certain time frame creates a red flag for listing services. These red flags can add up to a banned account or de-indexing.

I agree to some extent, but I’m under the theory that unless you’ve been “spammy” with 10 hits in under an hour… you won’t have a problem.

More so than to many pings from different services… you’ve got to watch how many time you edit a post after it’s been published. If you have one or two systems that will ping duplicates… no problem. However, if you post something and then edit it over and over and over again for anything… you can create a problem for yourself.

I know most of us try to edit prior to publication, but sometimes you have to add something or change a words spelling or usage. That’s okay, but if you plan on making NUMEROUS changes… like a growing list of sorts, then I advise changing 20% of your content when you do to keep from being slapped with a flag.

Hope that this helps clarify!

By: JK Swopes

JK Swopes — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:13:37 +0000

@PB- cool, that makes sense, I added them all to my ping list anyway, do you suggest removing pingomatic and pingoat completely from the list and just use the individual servers?

By: PB

PB — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:35:53 +0000

@ JK: Pingomatic is fine and does claim to ping all the major services. But when you compare it to trying to suck wet concrete through a coffee straw… you’ll start to see that letting one service TRY and do all the work is almost anti productive.

Pinging all the major sites individually is a much more reliable and faster way of sending out notifications. I know that most of you understand this already, but if it takes two or three days for your site’s pings to hit every one of the submission services… you’ll never be the guy or gal that offers breaking news.

@ Coach: I hope you understand that those links aren’t links… they get copied into your admin panel. Just didn’t know if I wasn’t clear on that from your comment.

As for the ideas… Um yeh! I surprised I’m not a raging mad man from all the stuff I’d like to do in a day. My contact form is always open!

@ Forest: But now you’ll be waiting for a lot less time! LOL. Glad it helped!

By: living in a frugal way

living in a frugal way — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:19:58 +0000

Cheers PB,

I have updated the ping services on your recomendation….. just gotta wait now

By: Coach Kip

Coach Kip — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:55:15 +0000

Thanks for the links. I feel you with ideas all the time. So I guess that I am offering my services to what you need. Hit me up and we will see what we can partner on.