What Does “Pinging a Site” Do?
June 10th, 2009Okay, so what is pinging? You have probably heard of webmasters say, “I’ve got to ping my site” or ask, “Should I ping my site?” So, what is pinging and what does it really do? Lets take a look in the dictionary.
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| 1. | to produce a sharp sound like that of a bullet striking a sheet of metal. |
| 2. | a pinging sound.
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Okay, maybe the definition of pinging isn’t exactly what webmasters are referring to, but pinging basically means that you are trying to notify sites that you made a change on a website that doesn’t have to be yours particularly.
Why webmasters mention this? It is most likely to be link building related which has to do with search engine optimization. Pinging simply gives a nudge to search engines like Google that your site has made an update, and will probably help to get your site indexed faster, although it isn’t 100%.
Some Situations You May Want to Ping
- You got a quality backlink from an out of date site.
- You want to rank for a keyword “quicker” than other sites.
- You just like to ping because you like seeing some productive work done without you having to do anything.
Some Common Myths of “Pinging”
Q: Does pinging frequently help improve my site’s traffic?
A: Pinging does not really have any power on whether or not it will improve a site’s traffic performance, all it does is what it designed to do – notify sites about new updates and speed up the process. (Most site platforms already have autopinging configurations installed, so it isn’t really necessary, unless you really have to.)
Q: Does pinging give your site more superiority in ranking in the search engines?
A: I believe what webmasters are trying to say is that are webmasters that ping before other webmasters, have an upper hand just because the search engines found their sites first? The answer, is no, Google only ranks by the effort you put into link building and ranks your site accordingly to your site’s efforts of being search engine optimized as well. They don’t look at who wrote this first or whatever, they simply look for the most qualifying sites, that have nothing correlated to pinging what so ever.
Author Bio: Albert Fang is an Internet Marketer, a Blogger, and is someone who likes to undercover new ways to utilize the web for means of generating consistent income.
I think pinging can be effective if you are trying to get new links found on a page that may not have been updated (cached) in google results for quite a while or if you have updated a page on your site which google has given little notice to or did not deserve a PR. Personaly I would rather spend more time adding new content on my car check sites to get others to link back to me naturally.
I’ve been trying to get traffic to my sites for quite a while. I’ve been quite successful for getting thousands of people visit daily, and from past expiereince “pinging” a site is very effective. From what i’ve heard, pinging a site lets search engines know, like google, that the you pinged has updated, and will have a higher ranking. I respect your opinion about pinging, but in my personal opinion I think pinging your site will help improve the ranking in search engines.
Hoped this helped.
I have been interested in blogging for quite sometime. I even worked at getting a few off the ground. I worked as a freelance writer (still do). But, I have put a lot of effort at getting my blog moving ahead. I am not going to tell you that I am a full time blogger but, I do spend quite a bit of time on my blog. I post daily sometimes twice a day.
Then I ping using pingler. I use pingler because it is flexible. I can add to the list that of sites to ping.
The thing to keep in mind when you ping is that you do not want to ping too much. And you really do not want to use more than one pinging service. Doing this can increase your chances of getting marked as a spam site. And all your hard work goes down the drain.