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

What can you do when you’re banned from Google AdSense? Find a new network! Here’s a list of current advertising networks that you can use to place CPC (cost per click) and CPM (cost per thousand impressions) ads on your website or blog. I list Google as the first one but by using a combination of the advertising networks below, you should be able to find a profitable alternative to AdSense. Next I’ll publish a comprehensive list of Affiliate Networks, Shopping/E-Commerce Affiliate Programs and then one with all the remaining online services (including Pay-Per-Post networks) that offer unique ways to help you make money from your blog.

CPA/CPM Publisher Programs (AdSense Alternatives)

• Google AdSense
• Yahoo Publisher Network (Beta)

What? An offer only available if I live in:

Hey, that’s me…sign me up!

Making a user think they’re looking at a local company or offer is an old trick that typically meant you’d have to download and install a location database and then call it using php/perl. Well, not anymore. Part of Google’s AJAX API is a geolocating service. It loads fast + barely takes up any space….great for testimonials or redirected users to specific pages based on their location. It’s a well established marketing theory that consumers will always feel more secure (i.e. more likely to open their wallets up) with someone they can relate to. What’s an instant way to relate to all your customers regardless of how big of an affiliate scum-bag you are? By making them think you’re both from the same city.

It might be a few miles off for some locations and give you the city next door, but over-all it’s pretty spot on and a great little tool that’s only a few lines of code. Best of all, you don’t need any type of Google developer key as it’s not tied to any specific website (i.e. you don’t need to register the site for it to work). Enjoy

Here you go:

<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (typeof(google.loader.ClientLocation.address.city) != null) {
  document.write(google.loader.ClientLocation.address.city
  +", "
  +google.loader.ClientLocation.address.region);
} else {
  document.write("Unknown location")
}
</script>