For new wordpress blogs do you...
 

Block search engines or do you let them crawl you while you update, code, and make post? Im talking about real blogs.

i am letting se crawl them slowly, but if i need some fast crawling i use social bookmarking sites gets the job done

I like to get the site structure all set up first before I allow the se bots in, and some good content, so sometimes I will work on a site for a few days before I will unset the block :2 cents:

Let them crawl. Also, first thing you do is update services.

I launched a blog a few weeks ago, and got three sign ups the first week - before I had even done a single link trade.

I have them blocked for 5 minutes, while I set up permalinks, make sure comments are blocked, change the 'uncategorized' category and links category, change the about page, get rid of the 'welcome' first post, write a quick first post. And then I turn them on. :)

rochard whats in your ping list?

That takes two minutes. Five minutes is toooo muuuuuccccccchhhh!!!!!

Let 'er RIIIIPPPPP!

I totally forgot about that ping list, haha. Rochard is it worth having a large ping list these days?

i would say so if the sites send you back decent traffic...all traffic is good traffic if they own cc or checks :upsidedow

I honestly believe so. A handful of people and I merge our lists, and the last time we did this I saw a pretty good bump in traffic. For the amount of work it involves it's well worth it.

please share your ping list :)

I never block search engines. When i am going to create a new blog, i always setup it and write at least a one post for search engines. And later i can develop it normally with right content and using right sponsors:)