Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.
Michael Martinez: Depends on what you`re pinging and whether you`re doing it out of desperation or actually have some new content to let the ping servers know about.
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Travis King: Michael Martinez I have a service business site. I don’t put out much content. A post here and there.
I didn’t know if pinging would help with ranking at all or not? I’m Relatively new and just trying to look for whatever I can do to help the site rank.
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Michael Martinez: Travis King Don`t spend any money on ping services. Don`t waste any time on ping theory.
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Travis King: Michael Martinez ok, thank you. I didn’t know if it was a waste of time or not.