What is PINGING?

Originally, a ping was a program that bounced a request off of another computer/server over a network or the Internet to see if the remote computer was responding. That same program is now used as a method of informing others that your blog exists and also let’s them know when a new post has been made.

When you put the two together - blogging and pinging - you get a technique that is extremely effective at getting ANY web site, no matter how big or small, indexed by the major search engines.