Pinging your website is the online equivalent of waving a flag and yelling, “Hey! Over here – check this out!” to search engines and directories whenever you add or make major updates to the content on your site.

Using a Ping tool   can speed up indexing because it essentially sends search portals and other services a message from your website telling them that there is new content and to come crawl it.

Pinging your website is a good practice to get into as it can make a noticeable difference to how quickly your new content and pages get indexed. At the same time, you need to remember that it is only one tool in the toolbox required to get your website ranking well and receiving lots of traffic. While pinging is definitely worth doing, the results can vary and certainly aren’t guaranteed. You should still work hard building backlinks and doing all the other seo stuff.

Before you get started, here are 3 important things to know about Pinging:

  *  You only need to use this tool when you add fresh content to your site or make major updates. ‘Extra’ pings won’t benefit your site and could even cause your IP address to be blocked by some services.

  * There is no limit on how many times you can ping your website every day – as long as you are adding new content for every time that you ping.

  * Adding new content to your site is a very good thing in general and you should aim to do it at least once a week.