When you read an article in the other blog or following the forum of blogging, some time you will find the word of Ping. Do you know what is it?

Ping is short for “Packet Internet Groper” which is one of the most important utility or computer network tool for blogger. Basically, it takes the same system like sonar in submarines which is sending the sonar waves when looking for the object and wait for the return wave. Ping is used to test whether one computer is connected to the other computer or the target computer is reachable by sending the ICMP ( Internet Control Message Protocol ) echo request packet and listening for ICMP “echo response” reply from the target host ( computer, routers, etc. ). That was a lot of function of ping.

For the Blogger, Ping is used to inform the ping servers that our blog was updated ( new post or updates an old one ), then the ping server generate a list of blogs that have updated. The blog aggregator use the result from ping server to tell our subscribers which item on their subscription lists have new post or update.

I think, all blogger want his/her new post get the widest possible publicity as fast as possible then the other (user or people) will easy to find or knows his/her blog which the final result is high traffic of visitor. The way for achieving it by trying to ping as lot as possible the server or blog aggregator. But you not need to worry, many blog authoring tools automatically ping the server for you. In this case, your effort will be the key for the best result.