Any Danger in Mass Pinging?

[Veloxi]

Hey y'all, how are you? I'm writing with something of an odd question. We have about 1,700 pages we want to get indexed for a project I'm working on, and someone mentioned a mass pinging tool to ping the URL's to various blog pinging services. These aren't blogs at all, really, but mostly profiles with a link or two in them.

Now being paranoid as I am, I worry that using a mass pinging tool like [pingymasspingtool.blogspot.com...] and others would cause penalties or other adverse affects that we're honestly trying to avoid.

Therefore, I'd like to ask y'all, what do you think of tools such as these? Are there any dangers in using them? Have you used them with any success?

I thank you in advance for your time. :)

[Hoople]

I personally only use sitemaps submitted in Google Webmaster Tools for whole sites. Most pages get indexed in a few days. A few minor pages never seem to make it, I'm OK with that.

I reserve the use of ping for singular hot topics I want indexed quickly (~5-10 minutes).

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

- Get a sitemap.xml and/or sitemap.xml.gz file up on your site containing all of your url's.
- Add the sitemap's address to your robots.txt file (don't block it, tell crawlers where it is).
- Just ping your home page, the big 3 search engines will do the rest just fine.

Yes, there are dangers in using those tools, they tend to attract more than just search engines.

[Veloxi]

"Yes, there are dangers in using those tools, they tend to attract more than just search engines."

Like what, if I may ask?