What Does “Pinging a Site” Do?

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Okay, so what is pinging? You have probably heard of webmasters say, “I’ve got to ping my site” or ask, “Should I ping my site?” So, what is pinging and what does it really do? Lets take a look in the dictionary. ping   [ping]  Show IPA –verb (used without object)      1. to produce a sharp sound [...]