Basang panaginip held the top spot on Pinoy Top Blogs (PTB) for one whole month on the strength of one post that got Dugg and drew in the kind of non-Filipino readers that very few Pinoy bloggers get. Raincontreras.com traversed a similar path to the 22nd spot, which seems to suggest that sex toys aren't as interesting as vector art. Then again, maybe not having the necessary bandwidth after getting BoingBoing-ed held back its rise.
That takes of care of the how-to-rank-higher-with-one-post part, but how do you stay there? Based on my experience with this blog, paying attention to how readers find your blog—and acting accordingly—pays off. For instance, I'd noticed for many months that one post with the word "talumpati" (speech) kept getting a lot of hits, but never really did anything about it. (See the bottom of this blog's index page to see what I'm using to monitor the top 20 referrers to this blog.)
That takes of care of the how-to-rank-higher-with-one-post part, but how do you stay there? Based on my experience with this blog, paying attention to how readers find your blog—and acting accordingly—pays off. For instance, I'd noticed for many months that one post with the word "talumpati" (speech) kept getting a lot of hits, but never really did anything about it. (See the bottom of this blog's index page to see what I'm using to monitor the top 20 referrers to this blog.)
Last month, I thought I'd try to post some speeches and see what happened. Well, my posts on "Talumpati" now get the most hits, unique hits are up by about 200 a day, and pageviews are significantly higher, too. But I don't know whether students will still be interested in speeches now that Buwan ng Wika is over. We'll find out at the end of this month.
Or you could try what some of the new PTB Top 50 blogs have been doing. Photojunkie takes great photos of the people in the city where he lives, and just started a portrait series called "My Toronto Includes…" that is guaranteed to have the people in the photos telling their family and friends to visit the blog. Incidentally, it's puzzling that Photojunkie joined PTB in April but only made the Top 50 in August. Maybe the button didn't work right.
And then there's Make poverty history! whose anonymous owner takes the slogan seriously and writes: "I hate the baho masa / orcs. Obliterate them all!" The very search-engine-friendly blog name plus the put-downs in not-quite-authentic-colegiala language attracts those who appreciate the humor and those who think it's sacrilege. And this makes the comments very interesting.
Other observations:
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Or you could try what some of the new PTB Top 50 blogs have been doing. Photojunkie takes great photos of the people in the city where he lives, and just started a portrait series called "My Toronto Includes…" that is guaranteed to have the people in the photos telling their family and friends to visit the blog. Incidentally, it's puzzling that Photojunkie joined PTB in April but only made the Top 50 in August. Maybe the button didn't work right.
And then there's Make poverty history! whose anonymous owner takes the slogan seriously and writes: "I hate the baho masa / orcs. Obliterate them all!" The very search-engine-friendly blog name plus the put-downs in not-quite-authentic-colegiala language attracts those who appreciate the humor and those who think it's sacrilege. And this makes the comments very interesting.
Other observations:
- Unique Hits (UH) for the Top 50 went down 3.71 percent, from 1,266,865 to 1,219,911, while This Month's Hits (TMH) declined 1.49 percent, from 3,037,191 to 2,991,949. Did the fact that many students and office workers weren't able to go to work during stormy August have anything to do with this? Just asking =)
- UH for the Top 10 blogs bounced back to almost the same level as June 2006, even though, as stated earlier, UH for the Top 50 went down.
- In terms of the TMH/UH Ratio, Pinoy Cook (4.93 percent) showed Philippines For Men (4.83 percent) who's ander da saya =)
| JL 27 1 2 3 5 8 4 12 6 9 7 11 18 15 14 13 16 20 17 22 26 - 23 24 29 35 19 - 25 10 31 39 34 - 32 37 28 38 30 36 - 41 21 42 - - - 47 - - | AU 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 | NAME OF BLOG Basang Panaginip Rickey Bryanboy: Le Superstar Fabuleux Motorcycle Philippines Pinoy Cook laurganism.com eRadioportal Blog Philippines For Men Inside PCIJ: Stories behind our stories pinoy.rickey.org Retzwerx - Ang Inyong Pinoy Big Blogger Pinoy Tech Blog Leon Kilat: The Cybercafe Experiments Quezon.ph Chikadora Blogged GPCarreon Ellen Tordesillas Starmometer Kwentong Tambay The Sunday Punch raincontreras.com Kiven EntrePinoy Atbp Now What, Ca t? Filipino Librarian Splasher Composed Gentleman Macalua.com Pinoy R.N. Manila's Daily Grind Pinoy Travel Blog Notes from the Peanut Gallery Photojunkie WeddingsAtWork.com News Blog The J Spot 1001lives sacha chua :: wiki [m]channel! buhay sa korea Skirmisher Ivan About Town Miss Universe Blog The Man Blog Walk this Way Make Poverty History Stepping on Poop Batangbaler Bikoy.net Random Takes TOTAL | UH 207,899 199,362 121,184 69,516 53,072 49,120 45,096 28,739 26,284 23,800 23,101 22,461 22,449 21,184 19,191 18,089 13,845 12,864 12,060 11,414 10,822 10,656 10,121 9,333 9,216 8,740 8,673 8,606 8,525 7,756 7,592 7,496 7,277 7,028 6,851 6,758 6,588 6,544 6,526 6,426 6,365 6,315 6,234 6,212 5,462 5,461 5,421 5,419 5,380 5,378 1,266,865 | TMH 553,759 493,267 303,637 113,557 261,706 122,528 77,652 138,735 49,347 52,634 41,739 43,108 34,062 43,054 46,004 26,266 27,631 36,777 34,429 21,810 42,449 18,263 30,891 35,899 19,851 15,202 20,271 14,102 12,634 14,365 12,733 18,148 9,036 15,622 12,664 10,585 9,347 12,280 9,786 12,593 10,113 11,255 14,476 26,380 9,192 9,109 8,134 17,637 9,492 7,738 3,037,191 |
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