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By now you know that how much social bookmarking can do for you. It is a phenomenon that has the potential to drive huge amounts of traffic to your website. The World Wide Web is dynamic, as we saw when discussing the world ‘live’ web. It focuses on websites, blogs articles and videos that are constantly being updated.
Especially when considering your blog, it is vitally important to stay on top of the traffic game by making sure that search engines have the latest knowledge of it instead of relying on the search engines to do all the work to find you, since search engines have several million blogs to sift through every day.
So, you should do whatever you can to ‘help’ the search engine search results by informing them every time you update your blog. You do this by sending a ‘ping’ to the major directories every time you add a new posting to your blog.
The technology behind the ping function is, however, not new or solely related to blogging. It is, in fact, a simple program that has been used for many years as a way of making sure that a certain IP address actually exists and is able to accept requests from remote machines.
‘Ping’ is sometimes also used as a verb – to ‘ping’ is the act of using the ping program or command. Sending a ping is almost like running a sound check on the computer that you are trying to test. Using the ping program or command is also commonly used to figure out how much time it takes to get a return response from the host. A ping can also help you learn the numeric form of the IP address of the host computer, simply from the domain name.
That was the original ‘technical’ meaning and usage of a ping.
Let’s make sense of it for our own use. In simple terms ‘ping’ implies ‘getting attention for’ or checking the presence of another party that may be online. A ping works by sending information or a ‘pack of data’ to a particular address and then waiting for the correct anticipated response.
In fact, the word ‘ping’ has interesting roots. The technical computer term for the program is Packet Internet or Inter-Network Groper – hence the acronym PING. Ping is also the term used for the sound of a returning sonar pulse used by submariners.
The ping function is also relatively commonly used for validating the existence of an emailing list. This sort of ping involves sending a message to the mail server service of the members of a specific email list requesting an acknowledgement code or ACK. This ensures that all the emails listed are both live and valid.
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