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Originally Posted by Eminem
However, I don't understand the ping thingy...how does it help you in getting traffic? I have heard that by pinging you can get bots to visit your site...However, how? I just don't understand that concept..
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Sadly even the people who ping often don't get the pingy thingy.
The idea is that you send a tiny spike out to a site with your id or url and it recognises it and knows that you must have updated your site. They then tell their indexers to go and find the new content.
There are systems like
pingomatic.com which come standard with tools like wordpress which take a single ping and send it on out to any number of other directories. This means your site does less work, their site does more - plus they are constantly making sure the pings are headed in the right direction etc.
Here are two gotchas
- A while back I was pinging a service which had ceased to exist and it slowed my whole site down. Annoying trying to work out which it was, pingomatic (and it's ilk) saves you from those concerns.
- Alot of the sites that pingomatic pings will only act on the ping if you have pre-registered with the directory. This means you need to be reviewing the ping list for changes and manually submitting your blog to each. After that the ping will be successful.
Oh, and don't feel you have to badge your blog with the directory badges. Try it if you like, but don't feel obliged.