Im not too familiar with blogging and pinging. Can someone explain exactly how this is done?

When you publish a new blog post you have your blog software set to send out a ping. If you use WordPress it should be sending out pings by default. You can add to the list of places it sends the ping to. I'm not sure how other blogging platforms are set by default, but you should be able to set them all to ping after publishing.

On the other end the ping is received. What you're doing is sending out an alert that have new content and those that are interested, which includes search engines, will usually visit your site pretty fast.

Usually the phrase 'blogging and pinging' refers to the tactic of publishing often and sending out pings to as many sites as possible over and over again in order to get content indexed. The tactic is is usually associated with the black hat side of things, but there's nothing specifically wrong with sending out a ping.

It's not about ranking better except in the sense that having your content indexed is usually a first step in ranking for anything.

You can also set blogger up to do this automatically although i always use http://www.pingoat.com i find that gives better, faster results.

generally speaking, blogging literally means to post an article or a discussed topic and published for public consumption. for the topic, its all up to the blogger of course.

pinging is somewhat like letting a certain site to know that you made an updated to your blog. I think that's it.

Originally Posted by Tone

You can also set blogger up to do this automatically although i always use http://www.pingoat.com i find that gives better, faster results.

I use pingoat as well, it really seems to work much better. After you do the initial ping, just bookmark the pinging page and it will be automatic everytime you hit your bookmark.

Hello -

If you use WordPress, you can set it to automatically ping Pingoat (already mentioned), and a number of others, including:

• http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
• http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
• http://api.feedster.com/ping
• http://api.moreover.com/ping
• http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
• http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
• http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/
• http://coreblog.org/ping/
• http://ping.blo.gs/
• http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

Regards,
Scott

i use these site: http://pingomatic.com http://autopinger.com/ http://www.blogexplosion.com/pingmyblog/ http://www.pingoat.com/ http://www.pingmyblog.com/ http://www.kping.com/ http://www.icerocket.com/c?p=ping