ping site

Ping calculates the round trip time of the data packet's from it's source to destination and back.It determines whether any packets were lost during the trip.You can ping a website by using the following two ways 1.Using command prompt 2.online site. If you need to check website ping rate,try to keep the following ways For XP start-run-?cmd prompt-ping website name or ip address Then you can check website ping rate using any one of the online site like http://www.whoisxy.com/

As far as I know when you publish any new article in your blog or site, you inform it to a ping site for circulation to all the search engines.

As I know, Ping function is to provide information to search engine, that there's on your web-blog has latest content or something new. And the search engine should check it and can be indexed on search engine. I think ping is very important for seo, to get fast traffic.

Ping is the check the access speed form your computer to the server. (Web server or Game server) I usually use watch mouse to get ping information. http://www.watchmouse.com/en/ping.php I will ping the web hosting before i rent from them.