Why Blogger isn’t that popular in the Philippines?

Well I used to write in blogspot. But I wanted to have more control so I used a hosting service with my own domain name and wordpress. It gives me more control on what I really want my blog to have.

I’m hosted in blogger. So far, nagagawa ko naman lahat ng gusto ko gawin sa kanya. Nga lang, there’s a possibility of my blog getting deleted if I do something wrong. :(

There are certainly a lot of details like that to take into consideration. That?s a great point to bring up. I offer the thoughts above as general inspiration but clearly there are questions like the one you bring up where the most important thing will be

I am using blogspot, wordpress at livejournal. siyam nga blogs ko eh

One of the reasons why Filipinos are not in tune with blogspots its because, no other filipino dares to go somewhere they don’t know about. Unless the majority of the barangay is already a member there. Friendster is popular in the Philippines because 99% of the population in the Philippines is already in friendster, either LIES or TRUTH the information of an individual always has something in common, to get “known” around the world. As well as Multiply, and the rest of the “single-looking for someone rich blah blah blah” forums. Blogspot however is more of a “stable” personal place where good friends can share the truth about the truth. Some blogspot are on Invite Only because they dont want others to be involved in their personal lives and still be online and exchange stories or what have you just like friendster has. In friendster you can not download music, no movies, blogspot have ’em. BIG F…..n difference.

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@yuga,
Your statement on re: stocks could be a reason why Google is not showing stats of blogger or blogspot

Perhaps Aileen Apollo could answer that question or help get those stats? :)

Though I actually started blogging on Blogger.com, I never really stayed with it as within months, I already registered my very first domain, messed around with WordPress and the rest is history.

If we start comparing Blogger to Friendster, Multiply, even Livejournal, the playing field is already uneven because in the first place Blogger is not a social network. The stats presented are lacking. When we speak of Friendster, like you say has 10 million Filipino users, even if 1% of its users somehow “blog”, I bet the volume of users who view these blogs is very small. I have only looked at a Frienster blog about 5 times my whole life. Friendster’s traffic relies mainly on its social networking aspect, not blogging. Multiply is the same, while LJ has a little of both. But despite that Blogger.com ranks high at #8 in the Alexa Top 100 for the Philippines. So why isn’t Blogger.com that popular here? I think when Dipchand said that “blogging is huge” here, he meant it as a growing trend more than real numbers. The Philippines’ Internet population pales in comparison to its SEA neighbors. Yes, blogging is huge sure, but not that huge. And that is his answer.

heh, lol. i really don’t like akismet.

false-positives is so high.

I’m not a blogger but I here’s what I think:

1) Blogger isn’t marketed as a networking site unlike friendster and multiply. It’s a straight-up blog hosting site. Market it as such and you’ll pro’lly increase pinoy traffic.

2) Friendster and Multiply have weak blogging capabilities. Blogger can look into this big opportunity. NETWORKING + POWERFUL BLOG + OFFLINE CAPABILITIES (ex. syncing, FREE SMS alerts ala Twitter) = WIN.

3) In theory, the first mover (one who gains first mover advantage. haha), can only hold on to it for a period of time. It can increase its period of dominance by increasing its product life cycle. Through what means? Innovation. Clearly something that blogger lacks (as compared to WordPress which is open-source and has an active community of developers working on plugins and themes).

I’ve been using blogger for about two years now. I’ve considered switching to wordpress, but I’m not sure it’s worth it. The biggest problem is I’d eventually have to re-post all of my pictures. I’m hoping blogger will keep updating its features.

I have noticed the popularity of blogging in multiply. I was cross-posting there, but I’ve since stopped. Got more comments over in multiply, but it was a hassle to monitor both blog. I’d rather have the traffic come to my own blog.

I thought blogger.com is popular here in the philippines.

I started with blogger before earning millions (just kidding). Yes the interface is not appealing nor the public page. We are already approaching web 3.0 in terms of design but it seems they are stuck with web 1.0.

I agree that a great number of blogs in blogger are spam. Casts a bad light to the blogger and blogspot brand if you ask me.

But all of my blogs are hosted by Blogger. Their hosting reliability is unbeatable but all other features specially the COMMENT system is mediocre compared to WordPress.

hindi kasi maganda ang interface ng blogger.

The reason behind it is its service features. Blogger made a wrong impression of its target market here in the Philippines. Ang gusto kasi ng mga Pilipino ay may full-control sa product na meron sila. And I think, yung distribution process o yung online promotions nila ay hindi nag-work out dito.