Interview with Denis Bernardy - Question 8 by Free Blogging Advice Guidelines project

Interview with Denis Bernardy
Question 8
(read Question 7 here)

What ping services do you prefer to get bigger success in blogging?

I use the small list which is provided in Semiologic Pro. There is Ping-O-Matic, and there is a couple of other services like Ping-O-Matic.

Now, you have to keep in mind that many pinging services will actually ping other pinging services. You don't want to have duplicates, or at least not too many.

There is a guy in the Internet who maintains a list of ping services and who took the time to see who pings whom: if, let's say I ping this guy he will also ping this guy who will ping that guy, etc. He has followed the entire network in order to identify who is pinging whom. And he came up with a very short list of ping services that people should be using. And these are the ones that Semiologic Pro is using, though, of course, they can be modified afterwards.

Honestly, I think pinging is important obviously, but there is really no point in pinging too much. The idea behind pinging is - you try to get a few links to your site, you broadcast your new content. But once your site has been found by the search engines, pinging becomes a lot less important than it initially was for a new site. There is really not point to be pinging all the way like ping-ping-ping; it's useful but it's overrated.

So, no need to become a ping zealot.

No, no. There is really no need to become a ping zealot. If the question hadn't come u regularly in my own forum, I would probably just got stuck to Ping-O-Matic which pings like 60 or 70 services alone. That's 60 or 70 sites that are referencing your new post whenever you write new content. That's huge, that's enormous already. What've added on top is a service in Japan, one even in China where this post maybe does not even belong to, but we added them because people say "We want more than one service" But, dude, this one service is gonna ping 70! It's really the only one you need in practise. So, there's really no need to become a ping zealot.

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