A not-so-newbie question on Pinging

You can use both of them.

It depends on what you mean by articles. Articles can be posts in some contexts.

For example, some posts in this forum are articles. So, blog posts can also be articles.

pingler???!

Honestly, I have no idea about it..will have a look into it.

I use pingler. It has 91 blog/weblog directories that it pings to, but these are mainly made up of google directories in different countries. It also has the 13 sites on pingomatic included at Pingler.

As mentioned you should ping every time you have fresh content and you can ping anything that has a web address or rss feed. So you can ping articles, blogs, squidoo lenses, hubs, forum posts, profile pages, social bookmarks, youtube videos, etc.

You can use numerous sites to ping the same web page. The more directories you can ping to, the better i guess. I mainly use pingler, but also pingomatic, pingoat and pingmyblog.

I have also noticed that pingler and pingomatic show up as backlinks when checking in Yahoo Site explorer. They're both fairly decent PR sites, so there's 2 easy backlinks straight away!

As for the concept of pinging - it notifies the directories you are pinging to, that you have new content, but you must remember that 1000's of people are doing the same thing everyday. It will also notify the search engines that you have fresh content. The more often you add content and the more often you ping, the better chance you have of visitors, backlinks and evenually sales, i guess!

I can sometimes spend at least an hour a day pinging! Other people use plug-ins, automated pinging tools and i'm pretty sure you could probably hire a virtual assistant for an hour a day at low cost to ping thousands of web pages for you if you wished!

Cheers Partha

Kitty Kiki You can ping Squidoo lens and articles. Most people ping their blogs, but you can ping your website or any site each time you add new content.

Val S. I use Pingler because it pings 91 sites at one time. It is just a way to let the SE's know I have added content to my site so they will check the site. It gets the SE's to your site faster so you can get your site indexed quicker.

Clint

New content doesn't simply mean adding more words to the page. You could still add backlinks to your "old" article. Search engines will recognize new backlinks and this can help that forgotten article rise in rankings. So if you are backlinking, social bookmarking or refering in a forum post to a certain page, then ping that page each time you do this.

As for "over-pinging", there are websites that have thousands of new articles published on them everyday and therefore they send thousands, if not millions, of pings a day. So i don't think you or me pinging an extra 10-20 times a day will make that much difference.

The thing is the search engines will always eventually find your content, even if it is ranked at number 2,344,988!! Pinging just alerts directories and search engines to your content! Therefore, i would rather spend one hour writing articles, completing keyword research or researching a new niche than pinging! But that's just me!

Cheers
Partha