posted: 1/27/07 filed under: Search
According to product manager for Google Webmaster Central, Vanessa Fox, yes it is possible. On Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007 she appeared as guest on Greg Niland’s GoodKarma Radio Show.
I was concerned for myself, because I use their ping service three or four times a day when I approve content to ArticleOnRamp.com. She explained that anything more than once and hour would not be considered excessive. However, she said that if you site is a news site, pinging more often would be acceptable. She added, the news crawlers are always hungry for current news content.
A nice little tidbit to pass along as another way to keep on Google’s good side.
February 26th, 2007 at 5:41 am
So does that mean that more than once an hour IS excessive?
Google is on my ping services list & I have the sitemaps plugin for my blog, so if I manage to post 4 times in a n hour, that’s how often they get pinged.
Doesn’t happen often, but it is something to think about…