Comments on: English Taiwan : The websphere, the blogosphere, traffic, SEO and the need for a profound change http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/03/19/taiwan-the-websphere-the-blogosphere-traffic-seo-and-the-need-for-a-profound-change/ A different look at Chinese cultures - China, Hong Kong and Taiwan Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:20:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Taiwanderful Announces The Best Taiwan Blogs 2008 | Fili’s World http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/03/19/taiwan-the-websphere-the-blogosphere-traffic-seo-and-the-need-for-a-profound-change/#comment-82905 Taiwanderful Announces The Best Taiwan Blogs 2008 | Fili’s World Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:10:17 +0000 http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/03/19/taiwan-the-websphere-the-blogosphere-traffic-seo-and-the-need-for-a-profound-change/#comment-82905 [...] English Taiwan : The websphere, the blogosphere, traffic, SEO and the need for a profound change [...] [...] English Taiwan : The websphere, the blogosphere, traffic, SEO and the need for a profound change [...]

]]> By: newviewit.com http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/03/19/taiwan-the-websphere-the-blogosphere-traffic-seo-and-the-need-for-a-profound-change/#comment-23728 newviewit.com Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:26:33 +0000 http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/03/19/taiwan-the-websphere-the-blogosphere-traffic-seo-and-the-need-for-a-profound-change/#comment-23728 With regards to Alexa rankings, they are useless and have been for some time because they only rank a certain demographic of people that actually installed their toolbar...Generally accepted amongst western webmasters to not represent true stats. As to the SEO/pagerank issue it could be because of political pressure from the mainland. It's no secret that Beijing made Google/Yahoo censor/block certain issues, including blogs. Also because of this there could be limits with the amount of resources the big search engines put in Taiwan...taking a long time to update PR, SE positions, etc. I'll be adding more info on Chinese SEO in a few weeks on my site www.newviewit.com With regards to Alexa rankings, they are useless and have been for some time because they only rank a certain demographic of people that actually installed their toolbar…Generally accepted amongst western webmasters to not represent true stats.

As to the SEO/pagerank issue it could be because of political pressure from the mainland. It’s no secret that Beijing made Google/Yahoo censor/block certain issues, including blogs. Also because of this there could be limits with the amount of resources the big search engines put in Taiwan…taking a long time to update PR, SE positions, etc.

I’ll be adding more info on Chinese SEO in a few weeks on my site http://www.newviewit.com

]]> By: Promoting the Chinese / Taiwanese blogospheres: a personal SEO study-case | fiLi’s world http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/03/19/taiwan-the-websphere-the-blogosphere-traffic-seo-and-the-need-for-a-profound-change/#comment-19783 Promoting the Chinese / Taiwanese blogospheres: a personal SEO study-case | fiLi’s world Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:31:00 +0000 http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/03/19/taiwan-the-websphere-the-blogosphere-traffic-seo-and-the-need-for-a-profound-change/#comment-19783 [...] this year, I discussed using SEO as means to promote the Taiwanese blogosphere in “English Taiwan : The websphere, the blogosphere, traffic, SEO and the need for a profound change“. I got mixed responses - few supported, most criticized. I don’t want to raise the [...] [...] this year, I discussed using SEO as means to promote the Taiwanese blogosphere in “English Taiwan : The websphere, the blogosphere, traffic, SEO and the need for a profound change“. I got mixed responses – few supported, most criticized. I don’t want to raise the [...]

]]> By: English blogging about Taiwan - Taiwan’s blog conference | fiLi’s world http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/03/19/taiwan-the-websphere-the-blogosphere-traffic-seo-and-the-need-for-a-profound-change/#comment-11291 English blogging about Taiwan - Taiwan’s blog conference | fiLi’s world Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:47:30 +0000 http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/03/19/taiwan-the-websphere-the-blogosphere-traffic-seo-and-the-need-for-a-profound-change/#comment-11291 [...] That is too bad. In the somewhat controversial "English Taiwan : The websphere, the blogosphere, traffic, SEO and the need for a profound change" I indicated that I think things can be a bit better, even with the existing blogs and [...] [...] That is too bad. In the somewhat controversial "English Taiwan : The websphere, the blogosphere, traffic, SEO and the need for a profound change" I indicated that I think things can be a bit better, even with the existing blogs and [...]

]]> By: Mark http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/03/19/taiwan-the-websphere-the-blogosphere-traffic-seo-and-the-need-for-a-profound-change/#comment-8773 Mark Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:32:26 +0000 http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/03/19/taiwan-the-websphere-the-blogosphere-traffic-seo-and-the-need-for-a-profound-change/#comment-8773 Ed, I think that’s a flawed analogy. Getting dressed nicely would be analogous to designing a site to look nice (to human readers). SEO is more like a girl who may or not wear make up, <i>telling</i> everyone that she’s beautiful, getting a phone number that's easy to remember, etc... That said, it looks like Fili's doing something effective. A few days ago, Alexa said that this domain gets more traffic than Chinese Pod. Ed, I think that’s a flawed analogy. Getting dressed nicely would be analogous to designing a site to look nice (to human readers). SEO is more like a girl who may or not wear make up, telling everyone that she’s beautiful, getting a phone number that’s easy to remember, etc…

That said, it looks like Fili’s doing something effective. A few days ago, Alexa said that this domain gets more traffic than Chinese Pod.

]]> By: Ed en Vadrouille http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/03/19/taiwan-the-websphere-the-blogosphere-traffic-seo-and-the-need-for-a-profound-change/#comment-8772 Ed en Vadrouille Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:21:05 +0000 http://www.filination.com/blog/2007/03/19/taiwan-the-websphere-the-blogosphere-traffic-seo-and-the-need-for-a-profound-change/#comment-8772 I'm not gonna jump in the controversy, specially as i somewhat agree with OP. It's a bit like hearing a girl telling you that she is beautiful from the inside, and that people need to see this, not her 'public-ranking' poor aspect, and that no, she will not get dressed nicely, she will not makeup... In fact I'd like to ask for help. I'm not exactly a Taiwan blogger, although i do sometime write about a few of the interesting things i get to see there. Since January I've seen a serious increase in traffic (nothing to be compared anyway to sites like forumosa) which has been rather inconsistent in daily terms, and even in terms of months (visits: january 9500, februray 6500, March 10 200, and a slow april so far). I should add that i also publish a photo gallery which seems to attract a good bit of the traffic, on a different folder on my host. Where i am confused is that these statistics come from Webalizer, which is run by my host. However i do not seem to see any real difference in terms of comments, or picture views on the website (pictures are counted as viewed when shown full screen). Moreover i have trouble understand the real meaning of a hit, and why does it vary so much from months to months. A part of the traffic graph is available here: http://ed.roquette.free.fr/wordpress/?p=64 I’m not gonna jump in the controversy, specially as i somewhat agree with OP. It’s a bit like hearing a girl telling you that she is beautiful from the inside, and that people need to see this, not her ‘public-ranking’ poor aspect, and that no, she will not get dressed nicely, she will not makeup…

In fact I’d like to ask for help.
I’m not exactly a Taiwan blogger, although i do sometime write about a few of the interesting things i get to see there. Since January I’ve seen a serious increase in traffic (nothing to be compared anyway to sites like forumosa) which has been rather inconsistent in daily terms, and even in terms of months (visits: january 9500, februray 6500, March 10 200, and a slow april so far).
I should add that i also publish a photo gallery which seems to attract a good bit of the traffic, on a different folder on my host.
Where i am confused is that these statistics come from Webalizer, which is run by my host. However i do not seem to see any real difference in terms of comments, or picture views on the website (pictures are counted as viewed when shown full screen).
Moreover i have trouble understand the real meaning of a hit, and why does it vary so much from months to months.

A part of the traffic graph is available here: http://ed.roquette.free.fr/wordpress/?p=64

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