Pinging

Pinging is nothing but intimating to the search engines that a new content is added in the blog. Pinging mainly applies to blogs and sites that have RSS feeds. An XML-RPC signal is sent to “ping servers," which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material. Many blog authoring tools automatically ping one or more servers each time the blogger creates a new post or updates an old one. The use of ping servers to direct attention to recent blog posts has led to a rash of ping spam or Sping.

Spings, like spam blogs, are increasingly problematic for the blogging community.