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Mike, I think I almost got the jest of your reply post, but let me make sure. I'll make some assumptions out loud and you tell me if I'm reading the tea leaves correctly, if you don't mind, that is, please.

The site you mention, e.g. blogrolling.com etc., I take it those are sites that a ping service would notify about my newly submitted url to the ping service?

Regarding the 'keeping track' comments, I take it you mean that I could manually go to each of these sites and submit my site, but the ping services does that for me, and to many sites from my one submission to them?

As you can tell, ping services are new to me and like Socialdude who started this post, I am trying to understand it. Especially three aspects:

1. How and why do ping services work, and

2. What is their incentive to exist and do all this work for us for free? So they can advertise to us?

3. I own the site www.Grossinternational.com and I put new pages and blogs up on the site often so I am trying to understand if I should ping every new page and post, which I think I should, and second, should I ping them just the once and let it go or re-ping those pages?

It seems to me that I should only do it once, but when I see ping services offering to ping my site weekly or daily even, then I start doubting my understanding again. My latest blog tonight is at http://grossinternational.com/penny-auction-strategy/ and I just pinged it. Now, should I do that again in a week? And if so, why and how often?

Thanks for your help and time, and with me especially, thanks for your patience.

Kurt Gross, Knoxville, TN USA

P.S. One other question, i.e. I pinged this page with this post on it. Isn't that a good idea, or not?

I have used the All In One SEO since the start, about 8 months now. Can I switch over to the SEO plugin by Yoast?

If so, is it simple or more complex?

And, are there any risks, potential problems, etc.?

I am relatively new to WordPress, but not so much to HTML.

Thanks,

Kurt

In my WordPress site, I use the All In One SEO (Version 1.6.13.8) so I don't understand why I'm getting these Errors:
  Missing Meta Description Tag - 50 errors
  Warnings - 83
  Notices - 128
  Duplicate Page Content - 35
  Too Many Onpage Links - 32
  Duplicate Page Title - 18
  4XX (Client Error) - 3

More important than that to me is, I don't know how to fix these issues.

I have tried to fix the 'Missing Meta Description' error but it has me stumped, even with using the All In One SEO plugin from day 1 of setting up my site, which is CostaRicaDentalimplants.org (I hope it's ok to put that here?).

All the fields at the SEO are as follows:

| <a title="Click for Help!">Post Title Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Page Title Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Category Title Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Archive Title Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Tag Title Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Search Title Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Description Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">404 Title Format:</a> | |
| <a title="Click for Help!">Paged Format:</a> |  - Part %page% |

I'm sure this looks rather elementary to the pros here, but I'm lost on how to fix any of these issues. I'd like to start with the "'Missing Meta Description'" just because I've been trying hardest on that one.

If anyone can give me any suggestions, I'd appreciate it. As you can tell, I'm fairly new at this. I have a decent grasp of HTML but WordPress is very new to me.

Kurt