Insider tips to PinoyBlog’s “Blog of the Week”

I get an email or two once in a while from bloggers wanting their blogs to be featured in PinoyBlog. Likewise, a feedback or two arrives in my Inbox asking if we could review or blog about a certain site or service in Pinoy.Tech.Blog. With PTB, it’s as simple as forwarding the topic to the contributors and hope that one of them likes to blog about it. Most of the time, we pass up on it.

With PinoyBlog, it’s a different thing altogether. See it’s only Connie and I that’s doing alternate check-ups on recently updated entries in PinoyBlog and see which one we like to be featured next.

Here’s an insider tip from me (and I’m sure Connie will laugh at me for posting this one) :

• Post an update of your blog in PinoyBlog. More than half the time, we feature those who are diligently and regularly posting an update. It’s the easiest way to be spotted.
• Get to know Yuga & Connie (hahaha!). Obvious ba? We’ll leave it up to you how we notice or spot your blog.
• Write regularly. We sometimes spot really nice blogs that we’d like to fetaure but if their last post was still a month ago, we skip it.
• Write really well. Write really funny. Write really scary. Just write!
• Read the PinoyBlog rules and never break them. We hate those who make sticky posts. I hate it when people don’t double check if their new entry breaks up the css layout of PinoyBlog. It’s a watse of my time which could have been well spent doing a feature of your blog.
• Don’t be a copycat. Connie hates it when someone copies her content and does not credit her. Be sure to be on her black list if you do.
• Be humble. If you claim you get lots of traffic and always be on top of search results for this and that, then we think you don’t really need an extra boost in traffic.

Our original goal for The Philippines According to Blogs was to drive traffic down to the individual pinoy blogs for them to get noticed and get involved in the blogging community. A lot of bloggers have told me that they get as much as three to five times their regular traffic when we feature them for the week and I’m really glad about that.