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[sofia.khani]

I use pingomatic and pingoat, when I remember.
I use blogspot, didn't move to wordpress when i could.

[bronnamdi]

I have been using freewebs.com free websites. I started using them because I did not know how to design websites and their free website builder was excellent for me.

I still have my free sites there but I bear their leaderboard advert. I also use blogger a lot. Infact, my first blog started in February, 2006 is still there and doing well but with very few visitors daily. I also use wordpress. The free version has been a problem for me.

Many of my blogs have been suspended by wordpress for no apparent reason. For instance, I had an article blog where I post articles written by me only and nothing else.

One day I opened it only to find out it had been suspended for "violating our terms of reference". I have since learnt not to waste my time with them. I also use the paid version hosted by me.

Blogs are great but you must post and ping to get visitors and the search engines.

[bronnamdi]

I ping with Pingoat and sometimes with Pingomatic. When I get pingoat, I do not use pingomatic.

[Linda Buquet]

bronnamdi said:

"Many of my blogs have been suspended by wordpress for no apparent reason."

Don't feel bad, tons of people just got suspended, they must have done a massive sweep.

Did you have any affiliate links? They are prohibited. Did you use it to mainly link back to and drive traffic to another site? That's another reason people have been getting shut down.

Both are prohibited in the TOS. Advice to all, if you are going to generate content for someone else (instead of on your own domain) be sure to always read the TOS and also back-up in case they pull the plug.

[bronnamdi]

I do not recall having affiliate links on those blogs. They were made up of only articles I wrote and I did not have affiliate links on any of those articles or ezinearticles.com would not have published them.

Anyway, I have got over that and I am moving ahead with other things. I have learnt not to trust sites hosted on free hosts and domains.

[ciscospot]

Thanks a lot, Linda.

[ciscospot]

Dear all,

I have never successfully used pingoat. Mostly it will show the alert,

Duplicate entry '1073812' for key 1

Any idea on this?

Best Regards,
Spot

[Linda Buquet]

I've never seen that error and I use it all the time.
If I accidentally ping twice it just says something like slow down you already pinged us.

Don't know if this could be the problem but I'll throw it out there.
I can't use Pingomatic any more because even if I ping the second I post
I get that "slowdown cowboy you just pinged us 2 minutes ago" message.
I don't have my blog set up to auto ping. Someone told me scrapers are sucking my blog and pinging it all the time? Probably has nothing to do with the error you're getting, just thought I'd throw it out there.

[genuwine4532]

I am wondering if the ping technique can be used for websites? I mean every time your content is updated?

Is the pinging only for blogs/squidoo?

If I set up an RSS feed on my site then can't I ping with that rss feed url?

Does that make sense?

[Linda Buquet]

IF your site was built with Wordpress or some other blogging software you could ping site updates. But you need the blog infrastructure to be able to send pings.
"If I set up an RSS feed on my site then can't I ping with that rss feed url?

"If I set up an RSS feed on my site then can't I ping with that rss feed url?"

Not sure what you mean.