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A friend informed me about PostOnFire after we spoke about sgping.com on Windows Live Messenger. Other than PostOnFire is be move alive than sgping.com, the similarity in interface is almost uncanny, down to even the submission interface. The only difference would be just the terms used – for e.g. sgping uses Upcoming and PostOnfire uses Just Submitted. |
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Other than that, of course, it appears to be as fast moving as ping.sg, where one of my submitted posts went to page two in just submitted in less than 2 hours. Above which, it appears to have greater reach, since I have seen submissions coming from sites ending in .uk, .de and .au. Of course, that ‘reach’ is equal to nothing if the submitters of those entries never bother to read the articles submitted by others. The only difference this has from ping.sg is the usual stuff: the lack of a social interacting tool – the Shoutbox, and posts have to be manually submitted. Still, it’s yet another good tool for one to publicize one’s blog. There is never any harm in casting your net wide, unless you are trying to date a girl from among the same group. |
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Tag: blog aggregators
I signed up sgping.com
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.