what is Ping?

Hi Guys,

I have heard a lot about this word "pinging a site", what exactly does this means? And how pinging the site can increase traffic on our site? I have pinged my two sites by using one online tool but haven't seen any difference till now. Please clear me on this.


Thanks in advance

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_blog

 

PINGING mean whenever someone sending request to recieve data from your site.

 

PING stands for Packet Internet Groper.
Its used to check weather a host on a network is reachable or not.
For more information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping

 

ALL I knew about pinging was from the ISP to get the packets recieved/sent something..

 

Also, Ping is both a noun and a verb, such as "Please Ping that computer" and "The router didn't return a single ping!"

 

IMO, pinging is mainly used for getting backlinks not traffic. You might get traffic afterwards as you have a lot of backlinks. Pinging your site just once won't have much effect.

 

Thanks for your answers guys, I really appreciate your efforts. But can anybody tell me how many time should I ping my sites to get more traffic?

 

i know in the game "amircan army " you have something called ping ..and it must be low for some reason

 

you want to ping your site often if you are adding content daily. this way the search engines know there is new content and will update their engines.

 

mmm, Well, First time to read that it increases traffic !!

 

technorati can bring vistors to your site via ping , test that and why dont you use bookmarking sites ?