What the heck is pinging?

I can still remember the first time when I discovered this term . . . (or is that trying to uncover) while searching for something else online. And as usual it causes a lot of problems coming to grips with more words that you don't have a clue about, all trying to figure out your first predicament.

With Pinging you call all the content hungry creatures

But the more you spend time online (as any blogger should and must love reading,writing and commenting relentless) the more you start to enjoy learning important phrases such as “pinging” rather than it be another stressful phrase you have no idea about.

Pinging is one of the great artworks of blogging. All that it is, in simple english, is that it calls all websites that are craving for your stories. Or is that content. Almost just like when big corporations and companies make public announcements. Before they make these official announcements, they would first notify all the press (these are obviously newspapers, broadcasters, radio stations etc.) that they would want to make these announcement/s.

This is exactly what happens online with “pinging”. This is important for any blogger to know, as the interface of blogs in which they operate is almost as if they are mini-press release sites. In other words, pinging goes directly hand in hand with blogging websites.

I believe every person that’s a blogger should fully appreciate the way in which blogs operate and all the things that makes it function the way it does. Like, yes, pinging. It's every internet person's dream/frustration (no matter which type of website you own), when you update your website and apply new content to it – but it won't show in the search engines that what you have done. And sometimes, a lot of internet newbies, marketers, bloggers (especially with new websites/web pages) would wait for days before Google would come and other search engines to update their content. This might be very frustrating to see that your website isn't updating at all, and sometimes, it only update within but every 7 days!





With pinging, you call out every directory, whether search engines, feed directories, blogs, or any other websites that are content hungry sites. They will come and visit your site within no time. And within no time at all will you see your newest article/blog post within Google in a matter of minutes. Literally.

You are not doing anything. You just notify. Called pinging. Pinging says on it’s own terms: “Please hurry to visit this site, there's new content published!”