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Blog and Ping! Great for Generating Traffic or a Complete Waste of Time? by Avril Harper

Most people know what a 'blog' is, being a contraction of an earlier longer term 'Weblog'. A web log, now 'blog' is a kind of diary or journal into which bloggers post comments and articles about general or specific subjects, sometimes to benefit other web users, often purely for bloggers' personal gratification. But few people understand 'ping' or 'pinging' which is actually one of many ways said to encourage search engines to list blogs faster and higher in search engine returns.

Search engines love blogs and will often rank blogs higher in search engine returns than traditional web sites focusing on similar subjects. This is often because blog, usually being easier and less expensive to use, tend to be updated more often than conventional web sites which require their own domain names, also hosting space, and require complicated page linking and uploading procedures. By comparison, many blogs are created and updated online and involve no start up or ongoing fees of any kind. It's this more frequently updated content enjoyed by blogs over conventional web sites that attracts search engines and helps users attract a wide audience of viewers and potential buyers for products recommended at their blogs.

Typically search engines spider new content at blogs and add it to their listings and bloggers can find their new content listed and driving search engine traffic literally days after appearing online. That, of course, means waiting for search engines to find the blog and anything that speeds up the process allows bloggers to profit sooner from all that valuable new content. 'Pinging' therefore is a process of letting search engines know a blog has just been updated or given new content and can prompt an earlier listing. Most of the time pinging simply involves visiting specific sites, adding a blog's url, sometimes describing new content, and it can take just seconds, minutes at most.

One of the most popular pinging sites is www.pingoat.com which many professional bloggers consider encourages early listings with major search engines like Google, but also helps blogs and individual postings get listed with smaller lesser known search engines. The end result of pinging is almost always more traffic for bloggers and ultimately more clicks on AdSense units at their blogs and more sales of whatever products they recommend.

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