I don't know how to ping! Help

Here's a brief explanation of blog pings:

• Pinging is a technology that lets you alert other sites that you've posted new content.
• Aggregate sites are sites like Technorati, Newsgator, Blogstreet, etc. There are hundreds of them, if not thousands at this point
• Such sites help bring your content to the attention of potential readers
• WordPress includes ping technology out of the box.
• By default, every installation of WordPress sends a ping to pingomatic.com every time you post new content
• By default pingomatic relays your ping to 16 other sites

So overall a ping is just an automated notice that gets sent and the notice says "Hey I posted new content, here's the title and URL"

What's the impact of pinging? Questionable at best. Reason being, as of today there far more than 30 million sites running WordPress. At least 20 million of those sites are independently owned and operated. The other 10+ million are hosted at WordPress.com.

So thinking about that for a moment, imagine that of all the WordPress blogs out there at least half are updated once a day. Some are updated 2 or more times at day. Some are updated many times a day.

All totalled, it's probably safe to assume that on any given day there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 million pings being sent every single day.

That's a lot of content notices. That's a really big pile of posts. Your post becomes a needle in a haystack.

Bottom line is that pinging can't hurt. But don't expect it to be a big help in generating traffic. Of course targeting your pings is a much better idea than using the standard pingomatic ping setup the comes installed by default with WordPress.

If you can find content aggregaters that specialize in areas that match your content, and they provide a ping interface, then use those instead.

Ping technology uses what is called XMLRPC for site-to-site communication, so when trying to find aggregaters that have a ping interface, that would be one of the buzz words to look for.