Here you go. I’ve compiled a list of 150 ping servers for you to ping your blog or site to. Just when some of you might be racking your mind wondering what the heck “ping” stands for, I’ll explain the concept below.

Out of many ways of informing people of new updates, one way is to tell blog search engines and news aggregators to check out our new content. To do this, we ping the updates to the search engines and news aggregators.

Note: I’m not him, because I’m handsomer.

There are a few ways of pinging. If your blogging platform is WordPress, you can make pinging automatic by copying the ping list below and pasting it in your WordPress admin control panel (Options > Writing > Updated Services).

If you are using any plugin (such as MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer) that offers similar function, you can also update the ping list with the one provided below.

If you are going to earn money online by writing paid posts, or in other words reviewing products for an advertiser, the good news is that is it one of the easiest source of income. The bad news: Google HATES paid posts.

The main reason is that by writing paid posts, it will contribute to what is called search engine spam. Search engine spam refers to the occurrence where paid links (as contained in a paid post) gain prominence and relevance every time a website links to it.

As a results, these paid links would go on top of the list of search results, causing inconvenience to search engine users.

So what happened during the previous Christmas month?

I wrote 15 or so paid posts, the source from which I got to earn quite an amount of good bucks. When converted to Ringgit Malaysia, the paid posts were worth a few hundred. It was a lot given that currency is about three times as much as the US dollar.

In January this year, I was still able to see a PR3 (read more about PR, or PageRank). In February,my blog was bitch-slapped to a PR0.

So the consequence of having a PR0? It included the decrease of traffic brought from Google search to my blog, of course.

Very susah right?! Wanna earn some bucks to cover my expenses in University also cannot!

So there was and still is a big contradiction here. Paid-post intermediaries such as PayPerPost and Smorty do offer opportunities to bloggers that is against Google TOS, yet they ultimately depend on a blog’s PR to assign bloggers’ tasks.

It took me a total of seven months for Google to return my PR3. During this period of time, I had erased each and every paid post, as well as written to Google to reconsider my blog’s PR.

The my blog is however only of PR2 as of now due to the lack of maintenance during my final semester of University years. I expect this blog to gain back its PR3 in the next PR update, as it is better maintained now and alive again! Haha!