What is pinging?

Posted on September 24, 2007 by dc

Since I have questions on what pinging is, I thought I would write a simple post on what pinging is and how it actually works. Basically, when a blog is pinged, it essentially tells a web blog tracking system that the blog has been updated. Thus, pinging is the process of telling tracking services that a site has been updated.

So how does pinging work? Well, a ping service scans regularly blogs for updates. Whenever there is a new update for a particular blog, that is reported back to the pinging service’s site. You can almost think of ping services being just like search engine spiders—both scan sites looking for information, and both report that information back to their specific site. The difference is, a ping service only reports back new blog posts.

I’ll post a little more about this subject after I have all my web research compiled.