Results from AllDaySucker pinging Experiment:
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After using AllDaySucker v1.22.10.19.2006 to ping 4 sites for 180 hours (7.5 days, from 8/28 to 9/4), here are the results:
...................Pages....Google..Yahoo...MSN....Google Indexed...Yahoo Indexed....MSN Indexed
Site Type:.....Pinged...Visits....Visits...Visits...Before/After......Before/After......Before/After
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1. YACG..........430......1........44.......19...........0/0...............171/169........... 27/26
2. PPC-Sites.....592......0.........1.........6...........0/0...............139/136..........327/401
3. PPC-Sites.....319..... 0.........1.........2...........0/0.................71/10............24/25
4. PPC-Sites.....577..... 0.........2.........2...........0/0...................1/1..............0/0
Notes:
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* For site #1 (YACG), all pages were reported for spider visits, for the PPC-Sites (#2-4), only the Home Page was monitored.
* As for Google, it is entirely possible that all 4 of these sites were "banned". I don't know how to confirm that. If anyone out there knows how to verify that a site is banned in Google (aside from seeing 0 pages indexed), plese let me know. I chose these sites especially for their 0 indexed count in Google.
* AllDaySucker was set to ping 6-20 pages every 360-720 minutes.
Conclusions:
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I can see NO beneficial effect in terms of getting pages indexed in ANY of the SEs. In fact some actually decreased!
I see no substantial increase from normal spider visits by the SEs. The 44 Yahoo visits to Site #1 was probably attributed to the fact that I inadvertently submitted it's sitemap during this test.
As far as this version of AllDaySucker, I conclude that it is completely worthless.
I am now going to concentrate on pinging my XML site maps to Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask using a script that I wrote. I may report those results later.