The biggest news this time is that total readership for the Top 50 Pinoy Top Blogs (PTB) went up by more than 100 percent from the October 2006 figures. I had to check my computations when I saw the figures, but they're correct. I also considered that, perhaps, the fact that data for October wasn't complete (i.e., due to downtimes) had something to do with it. Well, total unique hits (UH) went up by almost 50 percent from June 2006 figures.
Maybe it had something to do with Manny Pacquiao, but something's definitely up. Since June 2006, the 50th blog usually had UH of about 4,000 to 5,000 plus. But the UH of the lowest-ranked blog in the Top 50 this month is at 10,000. So it wasn't just the highest-ranked blogs that brought in the readers. Could it be that the Pinoy blogosphere has finally become a preferred "news" source?
Anyway, the Bryanboy controversy—not to mention his wins at the Gay Bloggies—probably contributed to the rise in total UH. But could the call for a boycott have led to Bryanboy's sliding down to 3rd? Not likely. As I've long suspected, most of his readers are not from the Philippines.
Maybe it had something to do with Manny Pacquiao, but something's definitely up. Since June 2006, the 50th blog usually had UH of about 4,000 to 5,000 plus. But the UH of the lowest-ranked blog in the Top 50 this month is at 10,000. So it wasn't just the highest-ranked blogs that brought in the readers. Could it be that the Pinoy blogosphere has finally become a preferred "news" source?
Anyway, the Bryanboy controversy—not to mention his wins at the Gay Bloggies—probably contributed to the rise in total UH. But could the call for a boycott have led to Bryanboy's sliding down to 3rd? Not likely. As I've long suspected, most of his readers are not from the Philippines.
It's also very likely that Alleba Blog, which got Dugg and came out of nowhere to land on the 12th spot, contributed more than just a few non-regular readers to the mix. But let's see whether it will be more successful than other Digg- or media-driven "ascensions" at retaining its newly-gained spot.
Other big gainers in the past month were Kiven (did you know he's a librarian?), who climbed to 7 from 17; Putanginamo.com (the phrase exists, get used to it), which went to 27 from outside the Top 50; and textmates (from 46 to 29), which like the previous blog seems to be another of the optimized-from-birth blogs that have been moving up PTB in the past months.
Blogs that have left me scratching my head are eRadioportal, which doesn't seem to be an SEO trap, but doesn't seem to have gone up to the 2nd spot relying on content either; DZRH Blog, which came out of nowhere last October to take the 11th spot, but has now gone back to where it came from; and Composed Gentleman, which was at 24 last September, dropped out of the Top 50 in October, and is now back at 35. The swings of the last two blogs are too extreme. If you have any theories, let me know.
The following are the raw data as of 29 November 2006:
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Other big gainers in the past month were Kiven (did you know he's a librarian?), who climbed to 7 from 17; Putanginamo.com (the phrase exists, get used to it), which went to 27 from outside the Top 50; and textmates (from 46 to 29), which like the previous blog seems to be another of the optimized-from-birth blogs that have been moving up PTB in the past months.
Blogs that have left me scratching my head are eRadioportal, which doesn't seem to be an SEO trap, but doesn't seem to have gone up to the 2nd spot relying on content either; DZRH Blog, which came out of nowhere last October to take the 11th spot, but has now gone back to where it came from; and Composed Gentleman, which was at 24 last September, dropped out of the Top 50 in October, and is now back at 35. The swings of the last two blogs are too extreme. If you have any theories, let me know.
The following are the raw data as of 29 November 2006:
| OC 1 6 2 3 4 7 17 9 10 14 16 - 20 15 8 21 22 13 12 19 5 32 24 18 23 25 - 27 46 33 26 29 35 30 - 36 28 48 - 43 - - 31 34 37 39 45 - - 49 | NO 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 Rickey eRadioportal Blog Bryanboy: Le Superstar Fabuleux Motorcycle Philippines Pinoy Cook Mukamo Kiven Retzwerx - Ang Inyong Pinoy Big Blogger Starmometer pinoy.rickey.org Philippines For Men Alleba Blog Our Awesome Planet Pinoy Tech Blog SELaplana Blogged Cellphone9 Inside PCIJ: Stories behind our stories Basang Panaginip Chikadora laurganism.com Now What, Ca t? Leon Kilat: The Cybercafe Experiments Pinoy BSN Quezon.ph Photojunkie Putanginamo.com Ellen Tordesillas textmates EntrePinoy Atbp Coconuter - Philippine Travelogue by a Nomad GPCarreon Touched by an Angel Macalua.com Composed Gentleman Filipino Librarian Kwentong Tambay Skirmisher Parenting-Weblog.com The J Spot Pinoypundit Radioactive Adobo Manila's Daily Grind The Sunday Punch Pinoy Travel Blog WeddingsAtWork.com News Blog Filipina Soul Splasher Straight From The Doc The Man Blog TOTAL | UH 182,563 151,577 144,549 97,315 77,709 75,319 68,865 50,853 47,250 41,489 40,966 40,832 35,414 34,113 33,996 33,237 30,334 29,323 29,278 29,207 29,087 25,368 22,440 21,028 20,566 19,942 19,350 18,911 17,044 17,028 16,103 15,991 15,763 15,717 14,689 14,674 13,629 13,145 12,706 12,100 11,919 11,612 11,487 11,463 11,387 10,970 10,607 10,505 10,489 10,378 1,740,287 | TMH 380,347 220,858 311,318 164,624 299,094 214,794 246,671 94,521 124,713 95,602 175,521 50,177 87,655 64,358 64,153 50,284 40,668 47,442 75,888 67,577 70,575 49,614 32,550 40,193 43,900 35,358 42,390 72,569 43,715 61,645 96,518 30,280 27,432 25,308 21,927 24,810 27,871 23,961 18,912 20,079 19,141 15,454 17,965 43,271 27,867 21,462 17,419 21,743 15,599 32,457 3,918,250 |
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