Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:37 am Post subject: Wheres my ping gone
Can anyone explain exactly what happens when you 'ping'. I know it sounds a daft question but it's something I can't quite grasp. Where does it ping to and what happens when it gets there. For instance if I make a blogg with wordpress (I've actually done that bit) it says it automatically pings it. So what does it do? Does it get transferred to a 'ping center' where anyone can see it, can I see my ping, can I see other peoples? What am I missing here? Any explanation appreciated.
A ping is a packet sent to ping services so that they know that you have recently updated your blog.
What the services do with your ping is basically like this. Let's take Technorati.com, a bot will immediately come to your blog, crawl new pages and display them on their site, available for others to search.
Technorati, for example, will categorizeyour blog so that people can search by tags, also count inbound links from other blog to your blogs, etc.
Other services do things differently and basically a ping is just a notification packet. What the services do with that notification is entirely up to them.
No, you don't want to look into ping packets. That would be ugly networking packet data. But you can see the results of the ping itself through different blog related services that take advantage of immediate update of blogs. _________________ I help small business owners overcome technology challenges in building their business online.
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