Help please - pinging

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   frogdroppingposted 14 years ago

   What exactly is pinging? I read girlygirls earlier post about pinging. I have no idea what it means.
   
   I have visions of randomly pinging (something) across the internet and am worried I may be ponged back.
   
   And it's the pong I'm worried about.

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   Janettaposted 14 years ago

   just wear a helmet and you'll be fine.

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   Gods Gardenposted 14 years ago

   Paddles Up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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   girly_girl09posted 14 years ago

   www.pingomatic.com
   
   It notifies various crawlers that your site, in this case, hub has changed (or been created).
   
   It should help your hubs index fast.
   
   

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   Gods Gardenposted 14 years ago

   Well of course that too

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   bgpappaposted 14 years ago

   Does this work and is it allowed by Hubpages?

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   girly_girl09posted 14 years ago

   yes & yes.

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   livewithrichardposted 14 years ago

   Funny, I just learned of pining too and from GirlyGirls earlier post...lol I found a few other sites from a google search on auto pinging. 
   
   All it actually does is send a sort of signal to sites that update blogs.  It allows those sites to know that you have new info up without them checking back and giving a false page impression which could interfere with adsense impressions. 
   
   GirlyGirl is right, it does help index your articles quicker and I can't see why it would be against HP rules as it brings in traffic without cheating the adsense program.

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   Ladybird33posted 14 years ago

   Thanks for the tip...

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    earnestshubposted 14 years ago

    I have seen little or no change in my hubs after pinging, so I would like to ask where do you ping?

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    Stacie Lposted 14 years ago

    Oh what a joy! I don't have to sign up to each one with a useraname and  password?
    i don't have time for all these social sites and promo....

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    Dame Scribeposted 14 years ago

    If you are paying for hits then you don't have to worry about promoting but pinging I guess is like alerting others of new content

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    Kudlitposted 14 years ago

    You got it right DameScribe. It was used primarily in blogs to update the crawlers when there's new content. IT DOES NOT REPLACE PROMOTION. It simply gets your pages crawled faster.
    
    The thing is hubpages (with it's high PR) is crawled often. Your hubs are sure to be crawled fast even without pinging manually.

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    earnestshubposted 14 years ago

    I have noticed that when I update a hub it gets pinged automatically and my score goes up, (if I get the SEO better.) I do not understand why it usually goes down first, then rises over the next few days though.

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    cashmereposted 14 years ago

    So you just enter the blog url and you are done?

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       earnestshubposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       The ping sites I use provide a space to put your hub name, the URL and any RSS feeds.

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    Dame Scribeposted 14 years ago

    Hi Cashmere, I enter both my profile and RSS urls. As for traffic, it comes from emails, referrals and SE's

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