How useful is Ping.sg for increasing your blog traffic?

Have you been using Ping.sg as a tool to increase traffic to your blog? Recently, i have been experimenting out with Ping.sg to see if it really works? and my conclusion is “Yes!” it works. Ping.sg is a web 2.0 meta blog community, something like a social bookmarking site like digg where people can “ping” or “pong” blog entries that they found interesting. Personally, i think its a great local website, and in fact, i visited Ping.sg every morning when i am working in expo.

Below are the traffic details of my blog from launched till now. From the image, you can noticed there’s a peak in the graph. And most of the traffic on that day comes from Ping.sg. Therefore, i can conclude that  Ping.sg is a great tool for increasing your blog traffic. You just need to have an “Interesting” entry.

For those of you who have been using Wordpress script for your blog and have no idea on how to use Ping.sg for your blog, you will find the following information useful. Just follow the step by step guide below!

Step 1 : Go to http://www.ping.sg and sign up for an account and activate it.

Step 2 : Go to http://www.ping.sg/myblogs or you can navigate through the left navigation.

Step 3 : Click on “Add a blog” button and type in your details including the blog feed url. (Important) This is how Ping.sg get your entries.

Step 4: Did you see a “Update Now” button? Everytime you update your blog, you have to go log in to Ping.sg to update it. So, you find it very troublesome? You can also automate the process by using the XML-RPC update service.

Step 5: If you are using wordpress, log in your wordpress admin dashboard panel. Navigate to Options > Writing and scroll down to the bottom of the page.  You will see a Update Services section.

Step 6: Go to http://ping.sg/myblogs, get your XML-RPC url (circled in red), paste it in the text field as shown in the screenshot above and click on “Update Options”.

Thats it! Everytime whenever you posted an entry, Ping.sg will automatically update it and you will not need to manually login into the Ping.sg account to click on the “Update Now” button. That will save you time.

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5 Simple Steps to Improve Your Internet Speed

Have not been blogging for the past few days because i could not find the time to blog. Kinda busy recently.. Well, tomorrow is monday again, and it means end of weekend. I have been counting down and i have  18 more days to end of my Industrial Attachment (without including weekends). Actually, i have been counting down since the start of my Industrial Attachment. How i wish everything will end as soon as possible.

 Today, i have been researching on the internet on ways to improve the internet speed and have actually found one that seems to be working ( for me). You can try this if you want, and see if its working for you.

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1) go Start > Run and type “gpedit.msc” - without the quotes

2) You will be brought to this Group Policy Page.

3) On the Left Navigation, go to Computer Configuration > Adminstative Templates > Network > QoS Packet Sceduler. On the Right site, you will see this. (refer the image below)

4) Double click on the Limit Reservation Bandwidth and set the settings as you seen below.

5) You are done!.

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Well, guess thats all for this post today. Have a nice day everyone.

Quote of the day : You’ll never achieve your dreams if they don’t become goals.

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Starting a website?

Many of you might be wondering, “Can i start a website without investing any money?” The answer is yes, you can! i try that myself before. So here is another question, “Can i start a website without investing any effort and money? I can say, either you invest money or you invest effort You cannot start a website without investing any effort and money. So back to the main topic of this post, how do i start a website without investing any money? That is by investing efforts. So what do you need in order to start a website? You need to have:

1. Domain Name
2. Web Hosting

Total cost will be around 20 USD for (Domain name -> 1 Year Registration) + (Web Hosting -> 1 Year) You can research for cheaper ones. For me, i started by posting in Namepros.com (That is a webmaster forum why u earn credits that can be exchanged for real cash) Also, there are also alot of other ways where you can earn the start up cost, you can

• write articles and sell them
• design websites
• design logo
• help to offer services to submit links to link directories
• forum posting etc etc
• there are many many others ways, this is just to give a brief idea of what you can do to earn start up cost for your first website if you do not wish to invest any money.

So now i assume you have worked hard and you had earned the at least 20 dollars in your paypal. The next step that you should do, is to go to www.godadddy.com to register your own domain name. ( you can choose other domain registrars if you want) That will probably cost around $7.17, if you apply the coupon (hash3) ; i am not sure whether this coupon still works, but i bought one domain at $7.17 using this coupon for my first niche site just a few days back. Hurry before it expires!!!! Okay, after buying the domain, you have to find a web hosting company, there are tons of web hosting companies out that and prices are competitive, you can go research yourself. For me, currently i am using bluehost.com. I find their support to be good, fast and reliable, so if you asked me, i would recommend them.

After your web hosting account has been set up, i am sure under the account details, you will be given the nameservers. E.g. something like NS1.bluehost.com, NS2.bluehost.com. So now, if you registered your domain with godaddy, you just have to log in to your account and point the nameservers to your web host. Then, wait for some time for the DNS to propagate, and you can now upload files to your web host. Simple Right?

For the ftp program, i would recommend using Filezilla. You can download it at www.filezilla.com. After you installed filezilla, just key in your details such as the domain name, username, password and port number, for ftp, its either port 20 or 21 (all this will be given when you purchased a web hosting package). I will not explain on how to use filezilla as its real easy, just drag and drop.

Okay, thats all! You just need to create your website and upload all the files ! Always note that, its easy to create and upload a website, but its hard to maintain it, The next step, which i won’t probably be covering in this post, is to market or seo your website. And, i think here is where the hard part begins.

As for $500 challenge, i think i am seriously facing a real problem. Yesterday, when i went back to work, i was SO DAMN tired that i slept all the way till this morning. That means.. LOL, i have not start creating my niche site. Seriously, I think i needed to change my plan. That is to create and sell those niche sites only at weekends, as i was beat tired on weekdays after work. So heres my plan, i am left with 3 weekends, which mean 6 days. So 450/6 = 75 dollars for each day.

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Have you been spending much more than earning?

Does you guys have the same problem as me? Over the couple of months , i found out that i have been spending much more then what i have been earning. The amount in my bank is decreasing.. sounds like global warming? LOL.  So if we are in the same category, i believe we have to find some solution before we are “bankrupt” LOL. For me i have thought of two solutions: First, is to spend less. Secondly. is to earn more? Sounds stupid right? Although it sounds stupid, i believe it’s tactical. For me, i choose the latter, that is to earn more. So, as you have probably guessed, i decided to monetize my blog, using adsense, paid links, sponsors etc. Well, it doesn’t seems new as nowadays, with start-ups like nuffnang, adverlets etc, everyone has been monetizing their blogs. Even a small teenager aged 9 years old have the capability to make money online, which is rare and difficult in the past. As you might not have know, there are teenagers around around age of 9 years old earning much more then what their parents have been earning online in US! A case study will be founder of WhateverLife.com, she earned $2M at just age of 17. GIRL POWER!

Today is the second day of the challenge and i have been progressing. I just sold the niche site that i have created. And this makes me one step ahead to completing the challenge. This is the screenshot taken from my paypal. Buyer is “blurred” for respect of his privacy.

As you can see from the screenshot above, its $48 instead of $50. Why is that so?Its because of those paypal “Suckers”. i mean money suckers, not the one you have thought initially.LOL. Thats how they earn money, sucking on the transaction fees. So by using simple maths : $500-$48 = $452. I guess i still have a long way to go….

PS: Arghh… weekend is over..

Quote of the day : “Every accomplishments comes with a decision to try”

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