Pinging is a process whereby you alert the blog search engines that you have updated your blog. Most blog software has a configuration option to detail which blog sites you want to alert, they should also come preconfigured with the most popular ping services.
This is different from the process that you might follow in relation to your core website. Typically you ‘submit’ your website to a search engine and it files your address (url), visiting at some point in the future. At this point the search engine spider will index as much of the site as it can navigate and you site will be included in its index a while after this.
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