arboundy

Hey jlake – I know this is an old post but recently I have been working on RPC ping servers.

I wrote and article here where I analyzed all the common ping lists and and their effectiveness and value.

In response to a query regarding the impact of over pinging, I mentioned the following;

“…Regarding duplicate pings – I believe the warnings about over-pinging are overrated. I base this on two factors

a) Most of the Ping Lists I have seen out there (I have punched over a 1000 through ThePingList) have duplicates in them and / or have targets that are also included in multi pingers such as PingoMatic. If the over-pinging issue was so valid – about 8.6 billion blogs would now be blocked.

b) Through my testing and requests through ThePingList, I have made some 3000 pings using the same dummy url and I am yet to have any of my ping tests rejected.

HOWEVER, I would not go as so far as saying dont care about duplicates because

a) I could be wrong or an idiot

b) By default your WordPress installation may ping on each edit – so if you are like me you go through a lot of typo’s – you pinging a lot, no need to ping “alotx2″

c) I would suspect that some of the more formal services – ie google and yahoo – would have counters associated with detecting spam

d) It doesnt matter whether the requests from ThePingList get blocked because I can bounce them via proxies all over the planet – you cant do that from your blog.

In summary I would suggest that it is prudent, economical and good internet citizenship to keep your ping lists to as unique targets as possible…”

I have noticed this as well, or something similar…

When I schedule posts for about3dtv.com within minutes of pressing schedule I get a google bot 404 error for the post’s URL.

Though the post’s URL does not appear in the XML – I am thinking that maybe the ping component of Google XML Sitemaps.

Hey it could just be the Update Services feature – just checking if anyone else has seen / come across this.

Dont know if this is relavent to the original poster, but I too was having a problem with the xsl; http://www.arboundy.com/2010/04/wordpress-2.9-sitemap-generator-failing-workaround/

You can find my workaround here: http://www.arboundy.com/2010/04/wordpress-2.9-sitemap-generator-failing-workaround/