Blogging and Wordpress

Top 100 Popular Blogs in the Philippines (June 2011)

Top 100 Most Popular Blogs in the Philippines (June 2011)During the first six months of 2011, we assessed the performance of more than 200 blogs using four (4) measures related to Website Traffic and User Engagement. The result: a list of the Top 100 Popular Blogs in the Philippines.

As we’ve explained before, high traffic alone does not make a site popular. A truly popular site has HIGH-QUALITY TRAFFIC, which is a combination of high number of visitors and high level of interaction between the user and the site. A detailed explanation of these metrics can be found in our post 100 Most Popular Blogs in the Philippines in 2010.

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The 50 Top-Ranked Blogs in the Philippines

Top 50 Philippine BlogsFor the past three years now, we have constantly tracked the Alexa ranking of most blogs in the Philippines (see the 2009 and 2008 Top Blogs list).

Yes, we know, the Alexa system has its weaknesses. But still its objective data — which is based on site visits, user pageviews, time on site, and search traffic stats, among others — can provide blog owners with an idea of how well their blogs fare with other blogs.

Without further ado, we present below the Top 50 Philippine Blogs in 2010, based on their 3-month Alexa traffic rank.

Top 50 Philippine BlogsFor the past three years now, we have constantly tracked the Alexa ranking of most blogs in the Philippines (see the 2009 and 2008 Top Blogs list).

Yes, we know, the Alexa system has its weaknesses. But still its objective data — which is based on site visits, user pageviews, time on site, and search traffic stats, among others — can provide blog owners with an idea of how well their blogs fare with other blogs.

Without further ado, we present below the Top 50 Philippine Blogs in 2010, based on their 3-month Alexa traffic rank.

Top 50 Philippine BlogsFor the past three years now, we have constantly tracked the Alexa ranking of most blogs in the Philippines (see the 2009 and 2008 Top Blogs list).

Yes, we know, the Alexa system has its weaknesses. But still its objective data — which is based on site visits, user pageviews, time on site, and search traffic stats, among others — can provide blog owners with an idea of how well their blogs fare with other blogs.

Without further ado, we present below the Top 50 Philippine Blogs in 2010, based on their 3-month Alexa traffic rank.

Top 50 Philippine BlogsFor the past three years now, we have constantly tracked the Alexa ranking of most blogs in the Philippines (see the 2009 and 2008 Top Blogs list).

Yes, we know, the Alexa system has its weaknesses. But still its objective data — which is based on site visits, user pageviews, time on site, and search traffic stats, among others — can provide blog owners with an idea of how well their blogs fare with other blogs.

Without further ado, we present below the Top 50 Philippine Blogs in 2010, based on their 3-month Alexa traffic rank.

Top 50 Philippine BlogsFor the past three years now, we have constantly tracked the Alexa ranking of most blogs in the Philippines (see the 2009 and 2008 Top Blogs list).

Yes, we know, the Alexa system has its weaknesses. But still its objective data — which is based on site visits, user pageviews, time on site, and search traffic stats, among others — can provide blog owners with an idea of how well their blogs fare with other blogs.

Without further ado, we present below the Top 50 Philippine Blogs in 2010, based on their 3-month Alexa traffic rank.

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5 Best Facebook Like / Share plugins for WordPress

With Facebook.com easily becoming one of the most-visited websites on the web, it pays to have your blog connected to Facebook too. Using Facebook’s Share and Like buttons, a reader can forward your post to his or her friends or simply announce to the Wall that he/she likes your blog post. Through this word of mouth scheme, you can advertise your content with no additional cost.

We searched the net for the best, easy-to-use Facebook Like and Share plugins for WordPress blogs. Here are our selected picks.

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(How to solve) Fatal error: Allowed memory size exhausted

I tried to automatically upgrade our blog today using the Upgrade link in the WordPress Dashboard, but it failed because of an error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate … in /wp-includes/http.php on line 1358

The “fatal error” might be a bit scary to see, but don’t worry because the solution is going to be easy.

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Moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com deleted by Google

Up until last week, if you searched the hotly-coveted keywords “Make Money Online” in Google, you’ll see that one of the top-ranked results is the blog Moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com.

Now, if you go visit the site, you’ll see a Blogger.com’s announcement saying “The blog you were looking for was not found.”

It appears this top “make money online” blog has been deleted by Blogspot/Blogger, a blog platform owned by Google.

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Top Blogs in the Philippines – 2009

Finally, we bring you our listing of the Top 50 Blogs in the Philippines for the year 2009, ranked based on each blog’s 3-month Alexa.com traffic rank.

We started monitoring blogs in 2008 (see our 2008 Top 50 Philippine Blogs list) and, in 2009, we see a diverse collection of old and new blogs alike.

(See also: 50 Top Blog Sites in the Philippines 2010)

In this list, 19 blogs or 20% of the Top 50 entered the list for the first time in 2009. They either became popular or started only in 2009. This means the length of time a person has been blogging does not necessarily translate to higher traffic rank.

The complete Top 50 blogs list below.

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