Pinging you hubpage helps traffic or not

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   Lgaliposted 14 years ago

   Pinging you hubpage helps traffic or not

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   Shirley Andersonposted 14 years ago

   I haven't noticed much of a difference, frankly.

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      Lgaliposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      thnaks for the info

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   Mishaposted 14 years ago

   Pinging helps your hub - or any other URL for that matter - to get indexed faster. No more, no less.

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   Ms._Infoposted 14 years ago

   I don't think pinging helps with traffic.  It's just a way to get the search engines to notice your link so that you can get indexed.

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   Dame Scribeposted 14 years ago

   I ping to get indexed which then allows for people to find my Hubs via search. I think it's a important part of promoting.

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   Lisa HWposted 14 years ago

   Two years on here, and more on the Internet, so I should be ashamed to ask this, but...
   
   What's "pinging"?         (and how do I ping?)

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      Shirley Andersonposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Easy, Lisa!  There are a number of places that you can use:
      
      Feedping
      Ping45
      Ping-o-Matic!
      Autopinger
      
      Pick the one you like best and fill in the blanks.
      
      If you don't like any of these, just do a search for others.

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         jennshon4posted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Hey thanks for those links Shirley, never heard of most of them, off to check them out!

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            Shirley Andersonposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            You're welcome, hope it helps!

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   Lisa HWposted 14 years ago

   Shirley, thanks.  Believe it or not, I've never heard of these places.  I once saw the word, "ping", when I tried to see if I could delete a forum post I made "by accident", and I thought it was a bad thing.   
   
   (I don't really live in a cave.  Sometimes I just feel like I do.    )

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      Shirley Andersonposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      You're very welcome.  Hey, don't worry about it, I often have to ask my kids or younger friends about stuff like this.  I've learned a lot that way - in plain English for computer illiterate dummies like me.

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      BundleBoyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I really don't think you will need to ping if you have some patience. Any Hub you write will be indexed pretty soon (48 hours). Google loves HubPages and hence may index all hubs every day. If you want your hub to be visible instantly then you might want to ping.

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   MotherHubberposted 14 years ago

   Thanks for this info, Shirley. I didn't know about this, either, and my husband works in technology.  Its a running joke in our house about how much I manage to ignore as he talks about what he does for a living! LMAO!
   
   Anyway, thanks for this.

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   MotherHubberposted 14 years ago

   Thanks for this info, Shirley. I didn't know about this, either, and my husband works in technology.  Its a running joke in our house about how much I manage to ignore as he talks about what he does for a living! LMAO!
   
   Anyway, thanks for this.

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      Shirley Andersonposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Very welcome.
      
      That's funny, MH!  Sounds like you've perfected the 'tune out'!

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    cindyvineposted 14 years ago

    Thanks for the links but now I have to ask this very studpid question, what is pinging and what does it do and how do you do it?

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       Lgaliposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       ping is like raising the red flag on the mailbox to tell the mailman you have new mail to be sent.  In this case, you are telling the weblog tracking sites
       that your site has been updated.

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    Mishaposted 14 years ago

    Like your analogy Lgali

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       Lgaliposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       thanks

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    wittywriterposted 14 years ago

    I do not ping. I believe that Google loves hubpages and gets them out there rather quickly. I dont bother.

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       Lgaliposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       good to know different views

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