Pinoy Top Blogs 1st Anniversary

Today is the 1st year anniversary of the Pinoy Top Blogs Project. The very first post about it is here.

The site was originally hosted here as a subdomain until Andre of Enthropia donated the domains to me a few months later. The old site now hosts a blog directory called “Philippines Best of Blogs“.

Here are some of the entries that discussed about the project at that time:

This was also the time when Milky Soft sent in his first link bait (was I right Marc?).

Several server moves, a 2GB RAM upgrade and tons of emails from concerned people, we’ve managed to maintain this project up despite the $149PHP 8,744INR 12,628EUR 142CNY 1,084 monthly cost.

To commemorate this day, The FIlipino Librarian is doing a series of posts analyzing profiles and demographics of the members of Pinoy Top Blogs:

Really good stuff, I must say. Thanks for the series, Von. The Ca t also had an updated version of her “Blogging Trends – Profiles of the Top Pinoy Bloggers“.

Will be posting some more data mined from the system and share them here as well.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

10 Comments

talksmart says:

18 years ago

Hi. I don’t intend to spam this comment board. But I cannot find any other way to contact you. I want to know why my site was suspended and out of the top 50 list. I checked my site tracker and I just cannot find something abusive. There was one article that was linked by someone through netscape (i think)…that generatede traffic. However, I do not see it a violation of the rule since it isn’t my fault if someone linked me or liked my article. Thanks for looking into this…
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Abe Olandres says:

18 years ago

Hello there,

Please refer to the rules here, specifically this line:

– Blogs should not belong to any traffic exchange programs or related sites that inflate visitors and pageviews.

I’ve detected from the logs that your blog is a member of BlogMad and getting traffic from their system, thus the suspension.
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talksmart says:

18 years ago

Thank you. But I think you must also look into other sites in the top 50 which are also in rotation at Blogmad. I only have around 50 credits or so from that traffic exchange site compared to all the unique hits i get from other sites. Hope you give me a consideration this time (probably activate my blog :-)…I do like this ranking site of yours, so challenging to be on top.

Oh by the way, Congrats for a great job of maintaining this site!
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Abe Olandres says:

18 years ago

Believe you me, I must have suspended over 2 dozen blogs that are running traffic exchange on their blogs. It’s time consuming to trace every single one of them but I used several tools to predict relative traffic to on each one fo them, except maybe the ones that are consistently on the Top 50. There are several flags which alert me if that happens.

All suspended blogs (because of the above) will be reactivated on the next reset.
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The Ca t says:

18 years ago

Hi Yugz,

I got an update of the study I conducted last October 2005, Blogging Trends:Profiles of the Pinoy Top Bloggers. The Filipino Librarian made use of my other study as a reference which was about the Profiles of the Philippine Technorati Blogs. This was in January, 2006.

However, my update was limited to the ranking of the blogs according to categories only since I accidentally deleted all my tables and presentation of the data but one in my original study. So this is also a request, if you can furnish me a copy from the back-up.
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Abe Olandres says:

18 years ago

Hi Ca t!

When was it deleted? I have the backup from 12 midnight last night but it’s a backup for your entire account.
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Miguel says:

18 years ago

Good work, Abe, Von and company!

Me, I’m still sinking. Doesn’t help that I don’t have much to blog about – much of my work now is off the record!
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vonjobi says:

18 years ago

haloscan says, “Target doesn’t appear to be a valid trackback URL,” so i’m tracking back manually =)

here’s the last one: http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/07/pinoy-top-blogs-classification.html
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talksmart says:

18 years ago

hi..its another reset. why is my blog not activated? wondering….
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