Is This Going to Hurt?
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A client had a very grateful customer, who submitted their sites to www.pingmyurl.com
Do you think that this is going to wind up hurting us in the long run as far as webspam, or is this a pretty legit service? Anyone have an opinion or any experience with this site?
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If the site was submitted, and its already in effect, you will have to wait and see if there is any negative linking. You will not be able to disavow any URL's until you know about them.
At the same time, Google isn't stupid. If this was all that it took to bring down a website in ranking, people would be using it daily on their competitor's URLs. What I am trying to say is: wait and see. A one time submission is probably not going to make or break you in any way. If you were submitting daily pings, and had a track record of being a spammy site, then I would think otherwise.
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I agree, but this is actually a service that submits to over 1400 different URL's, that's why I was concerned...
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Such tactics should be avoided since the traffic they (supposedly) generate is artificial and the major Search Engines have focused a plethora of their later updates towards the recognition of spam and for the promotion of quality.
The search engines can track the user behavior within a web document and in my understanding of their patents and updates, they could capture artificial behaviors.
My suggestion would be to stop the use of such services. Regarding possible penalties of the search engines towards the website, noone could quanitify their effect for sure. It could hurt you possibly but if you focus on proper structure and quality of the website, you will end up improving your rankings in the search engines.
You could also recognize possible backlinks from this service by using tools such as opensiteexplorer. Then, you coul employ the disavow tool of Google to inform it about the specific links, in order to state that you would not like this links to be taken into consideration for your website's profile.
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Webspam comes from so many sources, I would highly doubt you are going to see a negative effect from just one URL. If you are really concerned about it, check the server settings, enable Spam Assasin, and country IP blocks. We have seen the worst cases of spam come from Russia, Ukraine, Thailand, India, and China.
If you dont trust the URL, see if there is a page where your link is listed, and create a disavow request in Webmaster tools.
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I would seriously doubt that it would do any damage. If it could damage your site then loads of people with use it for neg seo (which is not happening) I wouldn't worry about it.
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