Ping -what is it?

[chrismv]

Could any one enlighten me a bit more about what pinging is. I was reading something about being good to have one's site indexed with goole. Could any one explain a bit more in depth what pinging exactly is?

 

[Patricia5]

see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(blogging)

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
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[RhysLucas]

The main usage of Ping is to deliver the latest updated content to ping servers. Everyday millions of bloggers around the world uses online ping services to notify various websites and aggregators about their latest contents.

 

[arthur]

ping is related to the latesat updates of blog, or any thing,,,RhysLucas, is right that more than millions of people are concerned with blogging and they are using ping services to notify different websites.. i agree with you...

 

[journeyoflife7]

With ping you can notify websites that you have posted up content. I think it is a good way to increase traffic to your website!

 

[info02web]

Ping is a basic Internet program that allows a user to verify that a particular IP address exists and can accept requests. Ping is used diagnostically to ensure that a host computer the user is trying to reach is actually operating. Ping works by sending an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Echo Request to a specified interface on the network and waiting for a reply. Ping can be used for troubleshooting to test connectivity and determine response time.
As a verb, ping means "to get the attention of" or "to check for the presence of" another party online. The computer acronym (for Packet Internet or Inter-Network Groper) was contrived to match the submariners' term for the sound of a returned sonar pulse.

 

[bill1]

Ping is a program that sends a series of packets over a network or the Internet to a specific computer in order to generate a response from that computer

 

[webmyne]

Ping is used to tell the search engines that a site has been updated

 

[moritz]

Ping is a program that sends a series of packets over a network or the Internet to a specific computer in order to generate a response from that computer. The other computer responds with an acknowledgment that it received the packets. Ping was created to verify whether a specific computer on a network or the Internet exists and is connected.

 

[dulcet30]

Pinging (ping) is a technique used in blogging to inform the blog directories and search engines that you have posted a new entry on your blog. If we use Ping after every post then it is maximize the fact that Google, Yahoo, MSN and other major search engines will find our blog updates. If all major search engines find our blog updated that the chances of increasing the traffic automatically increases. Pinging solves this problem for you. It guarantees that spiders will come to your site and that you will get listed in all the major search engines with minimal effort and no money in about 2-3 days.

 

[CraigEvander]

Pinging Google is usualy one nice way to let them know about your intentions

 

[ericsimmon]

To tell search engines that you have updated the page.