Tired of checking your Google rankings and index updates every hour? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could get your server to send a text message to your phone when the Google-Bot is visiting?

Here is how you can do it:

if ( strpos( $_SERVER[’HTTP_USER_AGENT’], ‘Googlebot’ ) !== false )
{
// Send Alert To:
$mobile_address = ‘yournumber@txt.att.net’;

// Send Message
mail($mobile_address,’GoogleBot’, ‘GoogleBot is surfing your site!’);
}

Using a simple STRPOS to check the user agent for GoogleBot, if it comes back valid we just send the message. Now, each carrier has separate domains for their phone accounts. AT&T/Cingular for example use cellnumber@txt.att.net. Where cellnumber is obviously your cell phone number. Using this email address will send a txt message to your phone with an alert when GoogleBot comes to visit.

As seen on smmguru

Note: If you don’t have access to a mobile subscriber email account you can use an online gateway - http://www.txtlocal.com and sent a message to mymobilenumber@txtlocal.co.uk