Alerting search engines that you’ve updated your website and would like to have their spiders re-crawl the domain can be accomplished by ‘pinging’ them with your URL. This feature is built-in to most popular blog and CMS platforms (like WordPress) and will automatically ping various networks anytime that you save or publish something new. Sometimes though it can be beneficial to ‘help’ this process along, especially if you’re creating a site from scratch and don’t have any sort of auto-ping functionality built-in.
Two websites that will ping a long list of services for you are Pingoat and Pingler. These are both great resources for any website developer.

I’m a big fan of Pingler in particular because it lets you modify the list of services that it will contact when you use it.

Now there are many blackhat, whitehat and well “greyhat” uses for pinging these services to let them know of a site update, all of which are hot-topics for debate (which I won’t get into just yet). Just a word of caution though – You can easily get de-indexed if you ping Google too often, as well as from a variety of other search engines…so with that said, you’ve been warned. Don’t abuse this service!

For those of you looking for a full list of URL’s that allow you to notify them of updates, i’ve provided such a list below. It also includes all the international URL’s for Google’s Blogsearch. Keep in mind a lot of these actually will ping multiple resources so if you use them all, you’ll be hitting a large number of duplicate services….just a heads up. Enjoy.

XML-RPC Ping Services

http://1470.net/api/ping

http://a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://api.mw.net.tw/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://bitacoras.net/ping

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

http://blog.with2.net/ping.php

http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php

http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc

http://blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

http://blogoole.com/ping

http://blogoon.net/ping

http://blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://blogsdominicanos.com/ping

http://blogsearch.google.ae/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.at/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.be/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.bg/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ca/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ch/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.cl/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.cr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.hu/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.id/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.il/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.in/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.it/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.jp/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.ma/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.nz/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.th/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.uk/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.uk/pingRPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.ve/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.co.za/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.ar/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.au/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.br/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.co/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.do/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.mx/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.my/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.pe/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.sa/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.sg/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.tr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.tw/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.ua/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.uy/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com.vn/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.de/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.es/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.fi/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.fr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.gr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.hr/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ie/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.in/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.it/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.jp/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.lt/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.nl/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.pl/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.pt/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ro/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.ru/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.se/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.sk/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.tw/ping/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.us/ping/RPC2

http://blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://blogsnow.com/ping

http://blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://catapings.com/ping.php

http://coreblog.org/ping/

http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi

http://feedsky.com/api/RPC2

http://fgiasson.com/pings/ping.php

http://focuslook.com/ping

http://holycowdude.com/rpc/ping

http://imblogs.net/ping

http://j-ranking.com/ping.cgi

http://lasermemory.com/lsrpc

http://mod-pubsub.org/ping.php

http://newsisfree.com/RPCCloud

http://newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php

http://ping.amagle.com

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.blo.gs/

http://ping.blogg.de

http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/

http://ping.blogoon.net/

http://ping.blogs.yandex.ru/RPC2

http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc

http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc

http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc

http://ping.fc2.com/

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.gpost.info/xmlrpc

http://ping.kutsulog.net/

http://ping.myblog.jp

http://ping.namaan.net/rpc

http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php

http://ping.speenee.com/xmlrpc

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://ping.weblogs.se

http://ping.wordblog.de

http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc

http://pinger.onejavastreet.com

http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2

http://pingqueue.com/rpc

http://queerfilter.com/ping

http://r.hatena.ne.jp/rpc

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2

http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.britblog.com

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080

http://rpc.newsgator.com

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://rpc.reader.livedoor.com/ping

http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://rpc.wpkeys.com

http://rssfeeds.com/suggest_wizzard.php

http://rssfwd.com/xmlrpc/api

http://serenebach.net/rep.cgi

http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx

http://snipsnap.org/RPC2

http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php

http://wasalive.com/ping

http://weblogalot.com/ping

http://weblogues.com/RPC

http://xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php

http://xmlrpc.blogg.de

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

http://zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php

http://blogupdate.org/sverige/ping/

http://blo.gs/ping.php

http://blogping.unidatum.com/RPC2/

http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt

http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

http://ping.amagle.com/

http://ping.blogg.de/

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/RPC2/

http://pingoat.com/

http://pingqueue.com/rpc/

http://ping.weblogs.se/

http://rpc.britblog.com/

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/

http://rpc.newsgator.com/

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

http://rpc.wpkeys.com/

http://zing.zingfast.com

Tracking202, which is quiet possibly the single most important tool any affiliate marketer can have in their arsenal, just announced yesterday that they were starting to take applications for the new Tracking202 Pro Private Beta Program. While enrolled in this trial, all fees associated with the application will be waived with the exception of any API calls. Once the private beta is over the service will switch over to being a paid analytics program….the first that the company has ever offered.

Up until now all Prosper202 applications have been completely free of charge. These include:

• Tracking202 – A great link analytics program to help you map trends, ctr, and much more.
• Export202 – A utility to convert PPC campaigns from one advertising network to another (i.e Google->MSN).
• WorldProxy202 – A great service that offers free international proxies in Canada, USA, Australia and the UK. This was always great for checking how your ads would appear to the international search markets.
• Meetup202 – An event/user group planning system allowing you to create, manage, and track gatherings.

It should be interesting to see what new features this Pro version has, something to note though is that there will not be a self-hosted version this time. Tracking202 Pro will be only sold through their subscription service. I don’t know how well this will go over with the AM crowd as the biggest fear in using any subscription service is that someone will steal ideas, LP’s, strategies, etc.. All of which are visible through this tracking application.

So apparently some genius thought he could make some quick cash by combining affiliate links from Incentaclick/CX Digital and bit-torrent. There’s only one catch…..it resulted in a massive DDOS attack on the incentaclick servers, knocking them offline for practically all day. Needless to say, some people were pissed (shit, I don’t even want to think about all folks who just lost big $$ due to their PPC links being dead). Rumor going around on #cakes (irc.freenode.com – don’t be a stranger) is that it’s more than just their servers that were hit, the ping attack took-out part of their entire network. If that’s the case then don’t plan on switching back to your incentaclick links anytime soon… such a shame.

Brilliant work kid!