Mature blogs and Ping-O-Matic…

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  cindyashleymiller · Member · Jan 19, 2011 at 5:25 pm

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  Can someone tell me whether Ping-O-Matic pings are sent to search engines, on blogs classified as “mature”???

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  timethief · Member · Jan 19, 2011 at 7:38 pm

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  If the blog visibility is set to “private” to keep search engines out of it then there will be no RSS feed updates.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  I found this section in support documentation but I cannot see anything about pingo-matic updating in it.

  Blogs with legal adult content are not removed, so please do not report these as spam or expect us to suspend them. They are flagged as Mature so that they become less visible to general audiences throughout WordPress.com by being excluded from Top Blogs, Recent Posts and Global Tag Listings. http://en.support.wordpress.com/report-blogs/

  I found this section in the official wordpress.comn blog:

  Now, immediately after you publish or delete a page or post, your WordPress.com blog sends a ping to Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask. These immediate notifications help the major search engines receive your new content as quickly as possible (often within seconds) so your blog can show up in search results faster.We send sitemap update notifications to major search engines every time your site content changes. Each post edit or approved comment results in a new notification. This update frequency is the preferred behavior of search engines interested in discovering fresh content without needing to revisit your blog unnecessarily. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/reach-out-and-ping-someone/

  If the blog visibility is not “private’ then I believe you will have to contact Staff for a definitive answer. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

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  cindyashleymiller · Member · Jan 19, 2011 at 7:52 pm

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  Thanx, timethief.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 19, 2011 at 7:56 pm

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  I’m sorry I didn’t have the definitive answer for you. Will you please return and post it into this thread when Staff reply to you so we Volunteers know it the next time we are asked?

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  cindyashleymiller · Member · Jan 20, 2011 at 6:55 am

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  It appears that pings ARE being sent…because Technorati has been updating my post listings.