Exactly, because your blog pinged all those services not only on every published post, but every time you saved, edited, and deleted any post. Also every time you updated or activated any plug-in. Basically anything you do on your blog causes the ping services to be "announced" or alerted. This is true for WordPress especially.

You can go to my blog in my signature tag and do a search for "indexing" or "pinging" and find the article on removing the ping services temporarily. There is also a write up on this forum. Do a search under my user name and you'll find it. It's all about ping services and WordPress Blogs. I write alot each day and sorry if I cannot remember which post contains this information. I think even this thread has some information on it. I know my blog does as well.

For your experience, once you follow the simple instructions on my blog (also check the comments section for further information and clarification from readers), you will be able to at least make 10 posts a day total and Google will start to forgive you. You only ping the services once a day. Two would be a max and not really necessary.

The reason is Google and other search engines always set up their own crawl cycles irrelevant of what the robot text file or sitemap xml file says on your blog or website. The cycle is based upon what is found and how much change is occurring on your website. What this means to you is even if you do not ping after a while, it won't matter, because the search engine spiders will crawl your website and blog anyways .

So if you have a blog with 10 posts or even pages a day, the search engine spiders will crawl your website daily. You can try this and check your website log records for crawl activity. You will see, even when the ping services are removed from your blog, they will still come and crawl your website and index all your new content.

In the old days we would check these records and schedule publishing around the times the search engine spiders would crawl our websites. However, now with the ping services installed, you decide when to have all the search engines come and crawl your website and index all your new content.

A foot note here: The best method when using WordPress Blogs for publishing pages and posts: Always publish the pages and posts as "Private." This makes sure they are not crawled. WordPress places the posts and pages which are marked private at the time of publishing as a hidden record in the WordPress DB. Then when you want everyone to see your work, you simply change the pages and posts to "Published."

And follow the guidelines of using the ping services only once a day. This way you can publish all your 300 pages and posts all at once and even schedule when you want them to show up. You can go do something else while your blog continues to publish on schedule. If you use the scheduling feature in WordPress, you can disregard setting the article for "Private." his is because WordPress will treat the post or page the same way as "Private" and make the record hidden until it is "Published."

Choose which method you are most comfortable with.