Ping Lessons for Website Owners

What’s a Ping and What Good Does It Do?

In blogging, the term “ping” is something that causes lots of confusion. Pings are part of blogging and necessary for your blog posts to be quickly indexed by blog directories. This is what a ping is: A ping is a program that sends information over the Internet from one computer or server to another computer or server in order to prompt a response from the receiving computer or server. Basically it’s a request that says, “Hey, there’s something new here. Come and check it out!” Pinging occurs when you post a blog entry and your blog software or a separate software program that you’ve set up pings blog directories and search engines to notify them that you’ve got something new going on. So, ping is both a noun and a verb. Kind of like you have Google (a noun) and you can Google (a verb). Pinging is necessary because without pings, it could take weeks for a search engine or blog directory like Technorati to discover that you’ve added a new post to your blog, and if you want your blog

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