What does it mean to ping a blog?
By good2go2001
@good2go2001 (915)
United States
October 4, 2009 10:15am CST
Ive been trying to establish my blogs and gain more traffic. I have hear of pinging but honestly dont understand it. Where do you do this from? How does it help your blog? Do you ping once a day more than once a day or only weekly? Hoping a fellow mylotter thats is a blogger also can help me with some of this info. Thanks :)
2 responses
@snowy22315 (182380)
• United States
4 Oct 09
Certain sites like technorati for one allow you to ping your blog you write new content and then let that site know. They will look for new content and promote it on their site, at least that is my understanding of how it works. There may be other sites that do that as well. I think signing up for a service like techorati is good to be able to give fresh content to people.
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@good2go2001 (915)
• United States
6 Oct 09
Sounds like a cool idea to get new nontent out to readers. I need to get more followers because it seems like im not getting the info out there to very many readers. I need to get traffic not always easy to do. Thanks for the advice about the site im going to check it out and see if it helps.
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
1 Nov 09
Purpose of binging a blog is to tell search engines that you have updated the blog, so that the robots can crawl and index your blogs.
The best is to use free pinging services to ping the blog every time you update the blog. You can use pinggoat.com, autopinger.com, pingmyblog.com and pingomatic.com
Your blog posts can get indexed faster, with possibility of reaching the first page in search engine results.
