Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top
Search Engine Rankings?
It’s been all over the SEO-student rumor mill for weeks now, and has finally made it into my
Inbox – in droves.
The new get-traffic-quick scheme for search engine results has arrived –...
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Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top
Search Engine Rankings?
It’s been all over the SEO-student rumor mill for weeks now, and has finally made it into my
Inbox – in droves.
The new get-traffic-quick scheme for search engine results has arrived – flooding ping
notification sites with update announcements, even though your blog hasn’t been updated.
The question is does this- or some variation of it work? If not, where did this idea come
from?
Okay, bad news first.
Pinging sites like Yahoo and Syndic8 every half-hour for several days or weeks, to notify of
updates when they haven’t been made, does nothing but clog up the system.
It’s called
spam-pinging and it has been around since 2002.
If you haven’t updated your blog, or you’re pinging updates of a site that isn’t even a blog
(or RSS feed, where applicable), in the long run it’s just going to make it harder to get
listed at these sites.
In the short run, you could get yourself banned from sites like Yahoo, though it isn’t
off
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