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What does it mean to ping your site?

by peteJ
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I'm new to internet marketing and have noticed a few people talk about pinging their new article/site and was just wondering what that means and what benefits you receive from doing so. Also, where can i go to do it and is it free? thanks to anyone who helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author Lett
    pingler.com (the best free service yet)

    It builds something similar to backlinks, the benefit is that search engines can find your website faster. I dunno if it gives any boost to your rank, some says they do, some say they don't.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Bainbridge
    It is more used for blog posts but can be used for any webpages essentially - it is a way of telling live update type services that you have a new page on your site - it won't make a massive difference but can help you to get indexed etc.
    Pingomatic is the go to free service as far as I know, don't think I'm allowed to post links but just do a search for it - very simple to use. Oh, and there are also wordpress aps to help you automatically ping your new posts too
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  • Profile picture of the author StevenBernard
    Pinging a site basically lets the search engines know that the site exists so that it can be indexed quicker
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  • Profile picture of the author lowjo
    It alerts the search engines and other services to changes you've made on your site.

    It sends them a message to come check out your new content. This (potentially) speeds up indexing and gaining rankings in the search engines.

    You can enter your URL at Ping-o-Matic! for example.
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  • Profile picture of the author smplylvn
    Can you ping an article on EZA or should this only be used on your own sites and blogs?
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  • Profile picture of the author Terri LC
    smplylvn:

    Yes you can and you should as well as anything else you update, be it squidoo, hubpages, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Actually, as most people phrase it (pinging my site) is somewhat misleading... because in reality your site is pinging other sites

    Your site sends a "ping" notifying other servers, services, aggregators etc. about being updated.

    See more technical details in Wikipedia
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    that mardox1 persona deserves not a ping but a kick in the a$$ for reviving a 3 years old thread to post a self serving spam!

    Report his post to get deleted
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  • Profile picture of the author uzomaeze
    Originally Posted by peteJ View Post

    I'm new to internet marketing and have noticed a few people talk about pinging their new article/site and was just wondering what that means and what benefits you receive from doing so. Also, where can i go to do it and is it free? thanks to anyone who helps!
    Everyone has a different view point about pinging but the truth is, it simply notifies google about a new post or your blog to get it noticed

    Pinging is good, but you need to be careful not to get it hyped else it could form a disaster for you as a spam to search engines
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    • Profile picture of the author Bambinos
      Go to your cmd(go to run and type cmd). Next you type in "ping www.website_name".(without the colon). And you are done, no need to thank me!
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  • Profile picture of the author Anne0521
    I usually use http://pingler.com/, Free Mass Ping Unlimited Websites or Blogs or RSS on BulkPing.com, Ping-o-Matic!. You could try those sites or you can search for others.
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  • Profile picture of the author InitialEffort
    Pinging does work generally to get a money website indexed as long as the content is unique. I recommend pingfarm.
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  • Profile picture of the author adgaro
    It helps to get your pages get indexed. I usually ping the articles that have backlinks to my site.
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  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    Wow. Lets get pinging some more action. lol.
    There are so many different views on pinging. If its wordpress then go to settings writing and look at the bottom that url is where it is set up at.
    Add to it with other urls.
    Pinging to a 1000 or 10,000 sites I do not think really matters. I have a list of 1600 urls i always ping too.
    I ping anything, even a noteworthy thread. Does it help, probably not but been pinging since pinging was around so I doubt I will stop.

    I believe pinging one site is just as good as pinging 1600 but with google sitemap I don't even think you need pinging as long as you update it when you put new content on.
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  • Profile picture of the author rohit03catalyst
    Pinging a website means letting other search engines know that you have update content in your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Coolkat
    Pinging a website speeds up indexing and gaining rankings in the search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kate96
    Pinging is done to index your site or any link in the Search Engines which will easily catch the url and fast index it if it is not indexing frequently.
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    • Profile picture of the author marimuthu765
      ping an website helpful to update frequently updated content in website and indexed all the web pages in search engine
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  • Profile picture of the author mkgg
    Pinging helps sometimes but not always. You need a link indexer service if you want guaranteed results.
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  • Profile picture of the author charlesdavis
    It is an automatic notification to a search enginesthat a page has been updated and it should be recrawled. Specifically, this is relevant for social properties like blogs, forums and other web 2.0 sites that are indexed by several search engines that keep a record of the page and the date.
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  • Profile picture of the author chmod444
    i saw soe plugin like ALL in one seo pack For wp Do same method ping search engine when site map update to notify website updated
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  • Profile picture of the author jessikaload
    Pinging a website means letting other search engines know that you have update content in your site.I have been using pingomatic for ping sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author deekay
    Always go for manual pinging, or you site will be termed as spammer from pinging servers. Because in auto mode, any update to your post or page will be auto pinged and put strain on your servers. Remember, pinging is resource intensive task.

    For manual pinging or indexing use these sites Indexkings, bulkping, pingomatic etc
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Pinging didn't do jack in 2013. Maybe it worked to an extend in 2010, but I can't remember any more.

    However, it's ludicrous that you post to this old thread let alone talk about this crap like it matters.
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    What's your excuse?
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