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. 
If you find this post useful, feel free spread it around. Just don’t forget to provide a link back to here
Hi there, if you visit my blog, please subscribe to my RSS feed!
