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Am I Wasting my time using pingler.com
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Ok so here is the question. A few months ago i decided to join pingler.com and pay for the service as i was using the free service, but after four months now i have not noticed any changes and i am just wondering if i am wasting my time using the paid service.
would love to hear from people who have or are using the service and let me know if this is a waste of time and my money could be better spent elsewhere.
look forward to hearing your thoughts
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Chris,
I am not sure you did anything wrong; I certainly can see how someone could have drawn that conclusion. Don't worry about it.
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i thank you for your professional comments Robert as always. I am not a big fan of tools and pingler is the only one that i tried, which i am not calling a day on the service.
We update the site all the time, bringing our readers news and gossip but i am going to re-focus some of the stuff that we do.
With reference to Chris Menke comments, i am not sure what the point was in making a comment on this posting and i am not going to give him the satisfaction and talking more about his post but i would like to thank you Robert.
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Sorry to all, I shouldn't have replied in that manor.
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Chris,
I can assure you I would not utilize snide as a communications tool with the rare exception of if I knew Tim was mean to kids or animals. So, I did use it as a tool to get him to go hmmmm?
The reason is simply that having been at this a long time I see people with excellent intent get screwed by following some "scheme or strategy" down a road simply because they were unawares. Tim has a large celebrity news site that does well and he is not a novice to Q & A so has seen my answers before. I would hope that he understood I was not in the least using it as a put-down.Tim,
If it was seen as a put down, please, please forgive me.Thanks
Robert
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My initial thought was a snide 'Well, what changes were you expecting to notice?". But, while I was out searching to see if maybe there was some hitherto unknown-to-me legitimate reason for you to expect something, Guru Fisher beat me to the punch. I guess that's why he's a guru.
Anyway, I didn't find anything that changed my mind and had someone done even the little bit of searching that I just did, there'd probably be no reason to ask the question you asked. Additionally, I'm wondering about the logic of going ahead and paying for a service that may not have been providing you a perceived value as a free tool.
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Tim,
I am going to give you an answer that you missed:
"Ok so here is the question. A few months ago i decided to join pingler.com and pay for the service as i was using the free service, but after four months now i have not noticed any changes... "
So, what were you expecting to happen? Since you instituted this practice, how much content has changed or been added? If the answer is little or none, well why are you pinging?
In SEO, as in fitness, bodybuilding, etc. there are always 'magic' ways to improve. In about the mid 80's the craze in fitness was creatine. If you take creatine you can jump over a building in three weeks... etc. I do not know if the desire to find shortcuts is a more rooted value in the US or if it is global (yes, I have travelled, but just not sure). However, it is very apparent in all SEO and people seem to grab each item, ride it a short distance, jump off and grab another. So here is my suggestion:
Read all on your site, check for dupes web-wide (copyscape.com), clean those up, insure your on-page SEO is in line with SEOmoz recommendations, create content and compare it to your competitor's - whose is better? If you said yours, send a copy of yours and your competitor's to three people who tell you the absolute truth; if all three say yours is better, put it up!You can take every gimmick, black hat, gray hat, green hat (sorry can't disclose these as they are inner sanctum SEO level and above only) and creatine and I will manage: Content, answering the query, UI/UX, basic good SEO, etc. IMO there is no way you will catch me in three to six months. Yes, I mean it.
That is the best advice I can give you regarding Pingler.com
Best to you and Great Luck going forward,
Robert
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