You ping by entering your site's url at a pinging site like Pingomatic, Pingoat, or Autopinger. These services then let a bunch of blogging services know that your site has been updated, and the search engines come around to index your site very fast. It's a great way to get a new article or blog post indexed fast. If you have a WordPress blog you can also set up WordPress to automatically ping through those sites. But you can also do it manually if you want to. And if you have a regular, static, html site, you'll need to install a feed on your site before pinging will work for you. When you ping these blogging services they expect to see that your site is a blog - and if you add a one page feed to your regular site it will then be seen as a blog. Then each time you update your site with a new article or review you can enter the url of your site at Pingoat or Pingomatic or Autopinger and the search engines will be around within minutes to index your newest page. If you're looking to take advantage of something time sensitive - like a news report about a product - this can really be helpful. Like if a news report comes out about a great product, and people begin searching online for it that day, you can very quickly put up a new review of that product on your site with an affiliate link to that product - then ping your article at Pingomatic or Pingoat - and you can see sales within the hour coming in to that new page. Pinging is a very powerful tool for fast indexing and if used properly it can reallly boost your profits. Jennifer
Pinging is more to notify blogs/news aggregator websites of your new webpage...search engines finding the pages is just the result of the pinging to blogs.
You do realize you can ping Google, Yahoo! & MSN with sitemap updates. How do you think it was done before the auto-discovery directive in robots.txt and webmaster backends. Ping (noun) - A protocol that sends a message to another computer and waits for acknowledgment, often used to check if another computer on a network is reachable. Lets start using common sense here people; this is a broad definition.
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Thanks ssandecki for short and quite good explanation on pinging. Some times it becomes very bored when u try to learn few seo slangs...