If articles are the blood that supply oxygen to your blog, then a "ping" would most likely be the synapses to your blog's brain. Whatever you would want to compare it to, pinging is a function that must be done in order to maintain a steady stream of traffic coming to your blog. Pinging is usually done when you have updated your blog or have changed something in it (i.e. seo tricks or what not).
Definition of a ping:
Definition of a ping:
A ping also known as an ICMP (Internet control message protocol) is a program that sends an incoming "echo" request to another computer asking if it can receive information packets. It is used as an update tool for most blogs/sites. (Same as they use in a submarine to pinpoint location and distance of another sub, albeit the computer ping is not for warfare. It is only used in the ever and on-going blogwars!!).
This will give the search engines the "go" signal and spider your site to look for new materials. Pinging will also bring in some traffic that just might do your blog some good. Extra traffic is always good :-). There are a few pingers that have a good service. Here are a few that I use myself! I have included both the "manual" and the "auto" pinging services. They will ping most of the larger blog search engines and then some.
1. http://www.pingoat.com/
2. http://www.pingmyblog.com/
3. http://www.pingomatic.com/
4. http://www.technorati/
5. http://www.autopinger.com/
The first four will ping your blog and most of the pings are ok. Sometimes there are errors though, but this should not stop you. The last one can be used to "auto-ping" your blog, which is good if you are busy or need to step out. If you need to manually ping your blog also, you can do it on their site. Pinging should be done only once an hour or so. So, break out the new content, load it and ping! Moonburst
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