I knew that sgping.com exists quite a long time ago when some bloggers reported in on ping.sg. I have never considered signing up for it until today. Part of the reasons why I signed up was because I had a fall in readership but it’s not like I had a wonderful and healthy traffic anyway. And no, it’s not for the money that sgping.com promised to share. Remember, I had a low readership so it’s not going to be even 1ct a day. It was simply done to increase exposure to the blog. What’s the point of a public blog if no one is reading it?
I must first thank kriscell for his patience and guiding me in submitting articles. Unlike ping.sg the article submission is manual so it’s somewhat like digg in a certain way. Some would dislike this feature but I wouldn’t entirely call it a drawback. After all, this completely stops those ‘top bloggers’ (aka link-sters) whose blogs contains nothing but a bunch of kriffing links or articles they plagiarized from another site and shamelessly slapped their own ‘copyright’ on it. That’s not mentioning with this you have a greater choice over what you want to ping and what not to ping. 🙂
Next, when you submit an article, it gets 1 ping right away, and it goes into upcoming. Only after another registered user pings it (correct me if I am wrong), will it then gets 2 pings and move up into published. (Note, clicking on the link doesn’t ping it!! Only by clicking on ‘Ping it’ is it pinged.)
In this aspect it is somewhat like ping.sg whereby only ‘reads’ of members are counted. That also prevents one from pinging his own posts repeatedly to create a false popularity. Of course, it still doesn’t stop people from singing up as say multiple accounts like Milky, Shabby, Princely etc and start ‘cross-pinging’ one another to make their own post popular.
Still, the ideas behind it is not too bad. And like I have said previously, there is no conflict between using sgping.com and ping.sg because no one is going to quit using ping.sg by signing up with sgping. It is merely just another avenue for one to increase exposure for one’s blog.
And if one doesn’t want exposure for one’s own blog then just take it completely private.
One more issue to add to SGPing is that if no one going to vote for any of the upcoming post the post will never get into published mode. And if one is to observe lately the owner does not seem to be actively voting those upcoming post any more. Hence unless members starts to vote each other post, the list of upcoming will eventually get more and more till it is almost impossible to manage.