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Ping: I just don't get it, could you explain?

by JustaWizard
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I'm not a newbie. I have sites on the first pages of msn, yahoo, and google. I've never heard a good explanation of what ping / pinging is.

Moreover, I'm not clear on a good ping strategy - yeah, I've heard of pingomatic, but can you bring me out of the dark with what ping is and what the strategy should be?

I'm a steps/procedures kind of guy, so if you could dumb it all down to "this is what it is, and this is exactly how you do it/how often" etc., I'd sure appreciate it!

Best,
David Portney
#explain #ping #pinging
  • Profile picture of the author Loren Woirhaye
    It just tells the blog directories your blog has new content and
    their "spiders" should come and check it out to update their
    content. After awhile of updating your blog every day you
    probably don't need to Ping because the directory software
    and the search engines get "trained" to visit the blog often.
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  • Profile picture of the author DrewG
    Yep, Just as Loren said-

    it lets the spiders know that they should come and crawl your site because there was an update. One of my favorite pingers (fast and easy) is Blog and Ping Tool - Use Pingler.com to Drive Traffic your Blogs and Websites
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  • Profile picture of the author shorwood
    You don't really need a ping "strategy". Just ping your site after it is updated significantly. ie a new post/article, new page, etc. If you just change a few words, don't ping your site.

    So basically, every time you update your site, go to pingomatic or pingoat or pingler and enter your URL and tell it to ping. This will basically tell the search engines that there is fresh content and it will get your site indexed.

    You only need to ping after each time you update. No real strategy, just ping after updating.
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  • Profile picture of the author Norma Holt
    Good thread and helpful to many. Well done.

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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Hill
    Use the MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer plugin and you won't ever have to worry about pinging your blog posts automatically.

    It's a great plugin and if you just edit a post t won't re-ping...

    MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

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    • Profile picture of the author JustaWizard
      Okay, so far so good: questions...

      1. can I ping a static HTML dreamweaver created website?
      2. do I need some kind of script or gadget? (see #1 above)

      THANKS!
      David
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      • Profile picture of the author g00db0y
        Originally Posted by JustaWizard View Post

        Okay, so far so good: questions...

        1. can I ping a static HTML dreamweaver created website?
        2. do I need some kind of script or gadget? (see #1 above)

        THANKS!
        David
        Thanks bringing up this issue. Finally, my question is answered (thanks to other fellow warrior).
        It's my turn to ask you, what is static HTML dreamweaver created website?

        Thanking in advance for your help.
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        • Profile picture of the author rob6188
          Originally Posted by g00db0y View Post

          Thanks bringing up this issue. Finally, my question is answered (thanks to other fellow warrior).
          It's my turn to ask you, what is static HTML dreamweaver created website?

          Thanking in advance for your help.
          static html: a web page that is not dynamically created. It just sits there "as is" until you change in manually then upload it to your hosting company. A typical static web page would be an "about us" or "contact us" page.

          Dreamweaver: is an html editor, similar but much more powerful and costly compared to nvu.org. Another highly regarded editor is xsitepro. However, if you know html, css, php, or whatever programming code, you could use a simple text editor like notepad.

          So the above statement just states that a web site was created by an html editor that must be updated manually.

          You can create dynamic websites using an editor if you know php, javascript, etc. xsitepro creates dynamic websites, and there are numerous scripts (created using javascript) that can be inserted into html code that will make a web page dynamically update - like google adsense code.
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          • Profile picture of the author g00db0y
            Originally Posted by rob6188 View Post

            static html: a web page that is not dynamically created. It just sits there "as is" until you change in manually then upload it to your hosting company. A typical static web page would be an "about us" or "contact us" page.

            Dreamweaver: is an html editor, similar but much more powerful and costly compared to nvu.org. Another highly regarded editor is xsitepro. However, if you know html, css, php, or whatever programming code, you could use a simple text editor like notepad.

            So the above statement just states that a web site was created by an html editor that must be updated manually.

            You can create dynamic websites using an editor if you know php, javascript, etc. xsitepro creates dynamic websites, and there are numerous scripts (created using javascript) that can be inserted into html code that will make a web page dynamically update - like google adsense code.
            Thanks for the detailed explanation.
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  • Profile picture of the author shorwood
    You can ping any website you want. All you need is the URL. It doesn't matter what type of website it is.

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  • Profile picture of the author Walter Cruickshank
    Great info. I am always learning something on this forum. Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author laurelwachtel
    Shorwood is right on the money, you don't need a strategy for pinging your blogs or pages just ping them to start getting some attention to your site. A great one that I use is feedshark which lets you ping to several sources at once, giving you more exposure for your sites and blogs!
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  • Profile picture of the author tommygadget
    ??? Doesn't WP have the ping functionality built in? You just have to edit the ping list if you want to add more services.

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    Mike: I thought the pinging issues were resolved by the 2.7 release.
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  • Profile picture of the author WinsonYeung
    In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. An XML-RPC signal is sent to one or more "ping servers," which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material. Many blog authoring tools automatically ping one or more servers each time the blogger creates a new post or updates an old one.

    Try pingomatic.com if you want to ping your site
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  • Profile picture of the author g00db0y
    Thanks for the info Winson
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  • Profile picture of the author grumpyb
    Another great thread here on Warrior
    I just pinged and I must say i enjoyed it very much
    Threads like this that give so much information and are fantastic for people like me.
    62 years old and on the biggest learning curve
    Thank you All
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  • Profile picture of the author g00db0y
    Good on you grumpyb. Keep up the spirit.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vanquish
    great thread lots of good info here for a newbie like me. One more question about pinging when i update my sites content do i ping the main url each time for example www.mysite.com or the url with the fresh content exmaple www.mysite.com/article2
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  • Profile picture of the author g00db0y
    Good question. I'd like to know it myself. Anybody can help us?
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  • Profile picture of the author grumpyb
    One more question about pinging when I update my sites content do I ping the main url each time for example www.mysite.com or the url with the fresh content example www.mysite.com/page2

    I would like an answer to this question as well
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  • Profile picture of the author Oscar D
    Do I need to Ping my site everytime I do a update?
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