Blog Ranks are Hot

Blog Ranks are Hot

A tech writer for Manila Bulletin emailed me a couple of days ago and sent me some interview questions about “Pinoy Top Blogs”. One of questions there asked if I was the very first one who thought of putting up such a project.

My answer was two-fold.

First, the script I was using was from evoTopSites which I found from here thru BloggingPro over two months ago (maiden post here).

Second, I thought that it would be nice to have the same ranking system for Pinoy Blogs and since “The Philippines According to Blogs” (PinoyBlog.com) has well over 2,000 blog members, I thought it would be best to sift thru the list and seek out the more popular ones (maybe a Top 100 Pinoy Blogs). (We’ve been featuring Pinoy Blogs weekly and received a lot of “thank yous” from fellow bloggers for it. A lot of them tell us their traffic shoot up more than three-folds.) This can be done by comparing their unique traffic on a monthly basis. In that sense, I believe I was the first one who thought of it and implemented the Pinoy Top Blogs Project.

Incidentally, the developers of evoTopSites communicated to me that they are pleased with the response on this project and wanted to me help out by providing the Pro verison for free once it’s released. A couple of similar Filipino owned site rankings sprang into life and I’m glad that in a way, I was the one who pointed them into using evoTopSites.

With the volume of traffic that we are tracking right now — close to 500 blogs with a combined 2.1 million pageviews — I had to scale down the tracking and wait for the Pro version to come out this October 1.

Aside from the eye-candy and the number-crunching effect of this project, I went even further and plan something more beneficial for the blogs involve. Monetizing on their traffic thru blog network ads — a very ambitious goal but achievable. I just hope that my fellow bloggers share the same vision and energy that I have — putting the Filipino blogosphere on the map.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

7 Comments

Mr Pogi says:

19 years ago

good luck on your project. i’m new here so it will be interesting to see the results.

happy blogging everyone! cheers:-)
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audienceone says:

19 years ago

Via con Dios! :) Great project… I’m following it. ;)
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AhmedF says:

19 years ago

Always good to see people using our software in big ways :)

For comparisons sakes, BlogTopsites tracks roughly 175,000 unique visitors and 475,000 pageviews a day. Bandwidth consumption is a tiny 0.5 gigs a day.
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Princessfiona says:

19 years ago

anong gulo ito ha!
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DarkBlak says:

19 years ago

Sir Abe congrats and good luck to your future blog projects :)
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Jaypee says:

19 years ago

this is really good for us pinoy bloggers..more power to you sir abe and we’ll continue to support you in any way we can. :)
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Marc says:

19 years ago

Amen Abe :) power to the Pinoy!
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