Does pinging your site work?

Hi everyone. Quick question about pinging. I got some advice from a friend and he uses some automated pinging sites for his blog. Does anyone use this method and if so how has it worked for you?

 

Pinging will tell you the server is up.

It won't conclusively tell you that the site is up. The only way I know for sure to do that is load a page.

 

When it comes to blogging, the term 'pinging' means something different than what you think it does....

And back to the OP's question, yes, it's effective once you read a little about how it works.

 

I did not make the association. Bad me.

I do know what they both are and your answer is far more correct for what he asked.

 

I'm not really sure what it does but I have seen this as a come across in a couple of blogging ebooks so I guess it has some affect to it.

 

yes it does. it helps you getting your content syndicated. if you are using wordpress, it has pingomatic added on the CMS by default and everytime you make a new post, pingomatic will be pinged

 

It means the pinging of blogs, it will notify the rss feed to come and fetch fresh content . It helps to indexed by search engine and attract visitors .

 

Here is a useful link to know more about pinging : http://technewsline.net/ping-your-blog/

 

It helps on letting search engines tat your site has a new post on it. If you are using wordpress then you are already using it without knowing it.

 

its definitely useful, and there's an even easier way to do it (if you're using wordpress).

you can set up multiple ping sites in the settings on your wordpress dashboard, making the process (i think) more reliable.

 

I'm really not sure how this works. I read the article above but it doesn't make sense to me. Here's the deal, I like to think I know a little bit about networking and what a ping is. Based on my understanding, pinging is nothing more than you asking your computer if the ip address (or website) is up, and how long it is taking for packets to be sent to and from them.

So, I'm not sure that Google ever has any form knowledge that you have pinged your website. You could simply refresh your browser on your website and accomplish the same thing. Google doesn't really care about that or even know you did it.

 

I actually wrote a script to use this on my own non-blog websites. I GET the keyword string that was used to get to the page and store in a DB, then create a tag cloud on that page using the keywords from the DB. Everytime a new visitor comes via a search engine a ping it sent out notifying that that page has new content.

 

yes wordpress autopings which is pretty cool