It’s been all over the SEO-student rumor mill for weeks now, and has finally made it into my Inbox – in droves.The new get-traffic-quick scheme for search engine results has arrived – Siteswise
flooding ping notification sites with update announcements, even though your blog hasn’t been updated.The question is does this- or some variation of it work? If not, where did this idea come from?Okay, bad news first.Pinging sites like Yahoo and Syndic8 every half-hour for several days or weeks, to notify of updates when they haven’t been made, does nothing but clog up the system. It’s called spam-pinging and it has been around since 2002.