How often is your WordPress blog pinging the services? Could you be guilty of Ping Spamming and not even know it?? You betcha.
If you are using WordPress as the core part of your affiliate marketing site you need to know that WordPress by default not only pings when you post a new item but it also pings when you update or edit a post. So if you proofread your posts and find errors or have to change out links etc WordPress pings every time you save the post. This has still not been fixed as of WordPress 2.3
To help fix this several plug-ins were created but like many open source projects people get busy and the plug-in I was using Smart Update Pinger is not working as of WordPress 2.1 or higher. I have found one that is working and is free. Ping Optimizer
Ping Optimizer will only ping when you post a new item. No more unnecessary and unwanted pings when you edit your posts.