Three newcomers to the Top 50 Pinoy Top Blogs (PTB) are very interesting. DZRH Blog (aka "Public News Affair," whatever that means) joined PTB last July and came out of nowhere last October to take the 11th spot, even though it hasn't had a new post since September.
Cellphone9 by problogger Jayvee Fernandez, meanwhile, joined PTB last June and, according to him, entered the Top 50 and claimed the 22nd spot because of "The joys of international traffic." Coconuter has had the PTB badge since December 2005, but after its owner was featured on "Nagmamahal Kapamilya" the blog went up to the 26th spot in a few days, not to mention attracting 189 comments on just one post.
Lessons learned? It helps if you have a radio network behind your blog, international traffic (e.g., Rickey, Bryanboy), and get featured on a TV show seen worldwide. Now how do we do that for our blogs? Pray? =)
Well, it helps if you know who's already reading your blog and take it from there. It took me a while to figure it out, but most of the traffic for this blog comes from Filipino students who use Google to look for talumpati. Proof? Traffic has gone down significantly since students went on semestral break. If I'm right, traffic should go back to normal once classes begin again.
Cellphone9 by problogger Jayvee Fernandez, meanwhile, joined PTB last June and, according to him, entered the Top 50 and claimed the 22nd spot because of "The joys of international traffic." Coconuter has had the PTB badge since December 2005, but after its owner was featured on "Nagmamahal Kapamilya" the blog went up to the 26th spot in a few days, not to mention attracting 189 comments on just one post.
Lessons learned? It helps if you have a radio network behind your blog, international traffic (e.g., Rickey, Bryanboy), and get featured on a TV show seen worldwide. Now how do we do that for our blogs? Pray? =)
Well, it helps if you know who's already reading your blog and take it from there. It took me a while to figure it out, but most of the traffic for this blog comes from Filipino students who use Google to look for talumpati. Proof? Traffic has gone down significantly since students went on semestral break. If I'm right, traffic should go back to normal once classes begin again.
Other observations:
The following are the raw data as of 28 October 2006:
Category: Blogging
- PTB's hit-counter was down at the end of last September, so Unique Hits (UH) and This Month's Hits (TMH) for October will be compared with those from August.
- UH is down a whopping 31 percent, and TMH 36 percent. Have the number of Pinoy blogosphere readers gone down? Probably not. PTB's hit-counter was down for a few days toward the end of October, and so hits were probably not counted on those days.
- In terms of the TMH/UH Ratio, Coconuter (5.05 percent) beat Philippines For Men (4.57 percent), which seemed ironically appropriate, given that coconuts are supposedly... never mind =)
The following are the raw data as of 28 October 2006:
| SE 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 19 10 13 - 4 9 11 15 12 14 21 16 25 18 - 20 17 23 - 27 26 22 31 32 47 29 30 37 28 35 48 34 44 40 46 - 42 - - - 36 - 50 | OC 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 Bryanboy: Le Superstar Fabuleux Motorcycle Philippines Pinoy Cook laurganism.com eRadioportal Blog Mukamo SELaplana Retzwerx - Ang Inyong Pinoy Big Blogger Starmometer DZRH Blog Basang Panaginip Inside PCIJ: Stories behind our stories pinoy.rickey.org Pinoy Tech Blog Philippines For Men Kiven Pinoy BSN Chikadora Our Awesome Planet Blogged Cellphone9 Quezon.ph Leon Kilat: The Cybercafe Experiments Photojunkie Coconuter - Philippine Travelogue by a Nomad Ellen Tordesillas Kwentong Tambay GPCarreon Macalua.com Manila's Daily Grind Now What, Ca t? EntrePinoy Atbp The Sunday Punch Touched by an Angel Filipino Librarian Pinoy Travel Blog ederic@cyberspace WeddingsAtWork.com News Blog [m]channel! Notes from the Peanut Gallery Ivan About Town The J Spot sacha chua :: wiki Filipina Soul textmates Peter Lavina Skirmisher The Man Blog Batangbaler TOTAL | UH 121,363 62,833 48,549 39,497 34,249 30,560 26,573 26,489 25,651 23,823 23,182 20,513 19,557 17,183 16,734 16,685 16,644 16,224 15,686 15,612 13,956 13,004 12,742 11,014 11,003 10,797 9,129 8,549 8,391 8,194 8,034 7,724 7,585 7,182 7,013 6,964 6,005 5,864 5,483 5,234 4,788 4,780 4,767 4,727 4,680 4,569 4,362 4,228 4,216 4,125 1,266,865 | TMH 269,281 130,711 77,611 152,115 76,557 47,799 63,714 66,528 51,972 65,937 28,356 55,134 33,062 38,950 29,796 76,184 55,140 35,435 36,835 41,225 19,790 16,697 27,066 16,173 20,137 54,526 34,362 17,063 15,606 12,957 13,429 15,789 26,839 27,784 13,266 12,054 14,333 13,871 11,027 8,243 5,862 9,767 8,194 8,139 7,956 10,497 5,192 7,526 15,008 8,848 3,037,191 |
Category: Blogging
