Comments on: Dynamics of Blog Traffic in Top Pinoy Blogs

By: Joachim Guanzon

Joachim Guanzon — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:39:39 +0000

this is really a cool project you have here yuga, i’m a little bit excited about the pro version that you are going to get. Keep up the good work!!!

By: yuga

yuga — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:39:50 +0000

@ Marc

Yes, maybe that’s true.

@ Fleeb

Tracking is done both via the IP address and by cookies. They must pass both checks before the hit is tracked.

@ Roy

It doesn’t count any pageviews inside your WP-Admin, only those pages that are public. Besides, even if you continuously reload your page, it only counts as one unique hit.

By: roychoco

roychoco — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:29:03 +0000

pre,

di ko alam kung naitanong na, pero puede bang i-set yung counter na hindi binibilang yung visit pag galing sa kin? pag nag post kasi ako ng story madalas akong mag-edit, ayokong ma-skew yung data, para lang dinadaya ko yung sarili ko

thanks

roy

By: Fleeb

Fleeb — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:39:53 +0000

I want to ask though about cookies, does the hit updates even when cookies are turned off or blocked by a firewall? Because if there is not any cookie checking then it’s possible to gain a hit simply by refreshing the browser while using a firewall to block cookie attempts.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 10:25:25 +0000

Hey that’s great news! Might be better if you keep the formula secret (or vague) hehe less controversy!

By: yuga

yuga — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:55:25 +0000

Got an email from the developers of evoTopSites and they were willing to give me the Pro version for free when it releases in two weeks. With the additional features of the Pro version, I believe we could do some more tweaking in the rankings. Will explain my formula once it’s implemented.

By: mell ditangco

mell ditangco — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 04:21:26 +0000

whether we change the way we change how we measure ranking, I dont think it will not change the ranking much. Just my two cents.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:30:08 +0000

What a nice MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM! I recommend you read an article on Google (the link I found on bizdriven.net) which tackles a similar problem as yours — how to rank importance of sites.

By: Kates

Kates — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 09:03:54 +0000

“showing only the excerpts not necessarily means that the intention is to gain hits for PTB”

I use it for adsense before. Ads is “stumble-able” if place under the “more” link. But since adsense recently only shows PSAs on my frontpage even when the post is in full text mode, I have no use for it. I use like mr nice ash.

By: mr nice ash

mr nice ash — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 05:20:49 +0000

showing only the excerpts not necessarily means that the intention is to gain hits for PTB. For adsense maybe. But since AdSense seems useless for me, showing the excerpts is a nice way to maximize the page contents.

By: DarkBlak

DarkBlak — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 03:43:52 +0000

lets just hope na makagawa pa ng ibang way, gaya nga ng sabi ni yuga, hybrid formula, para maging maayos ang ranking system. as for now wala tayong magagawa dun sa mga mahilig mag refresh (isa na ako dun, kasi laging nakabukas blog ko, pero before pa naman ako sumali sa PTB gawain ko na yun, naka exlude na nga yung IP ko sa site meter ko, good thing naka static ip ako), saka dun sa mahilig magbura ng cookies.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 02:57:47 +0000

PTB tracks hits to http://www.yugatech.com/blogs/tracker.php. As long as a page has the link to tracker.php, layout should not be an issue. Now the smart ones…they’ll surely follow Mell’s advise:
“Some bloggers prefer to hide part of their entries forcing readers to click another page for the entire article, this would push page views up.”

“But then who are they fooling? If they want to waste their time refreshing their site and deleting cookies, let them.” - It won’t be a waste of time really. A few lines of code should do the trick.

*Unique Hits this Month* is really the Holy Grail.

By: mr nice ash

mr nice ash — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:29:40 +0000

being part of PTB is enough. It doesnt matter to me whether I gain hits from others and be on the top. I am satisfied being welcomed.

By: trench

trench — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:51:05 +0000

too bad im not pinoy enough to join this ring. I dont even speak. Im a 1/4 Visayan! whoo hoo!

By: Kates

Kates — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:54:17 +0000

Let’s not get carried away with ranking. In the end, how much content and the quality of it is what matters to most readers. Blogging for the sake of ranking takes away the fun out of it. It’s true that anybody can get the top spot if they like. But then who are they fooling? If they want to waste their time refreshing their site and deleting cookies, let them. We have other more important things to do.

By: mell ditangco

mell ditangco — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:59:43 +0000

I say we should not get too granular on our metrics such as using pageload as a metric. Pageloads are driven by different blog layouts as such there will always be an apples to orange comparisson. Some bloggers prefer to hide part of their entries forcing readers to click another page for the entire article, this would push page views up. Other bloggers do not, keeping pageviews to a minimum.

Also, does it matter how readers get to the blog?

So lets keep things simple.

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