English language Taiwan blogs : The top bloggers 2007

http://michaelturton.blogspot.com/ Michael Turton

Thanks fili. Interesting, and found a couple of blogs I didn’t know about.

Michael

Michael Turton’s last blog post..Does China have fuels reserves for Taiwan Attack?

http://michaelturton.blogspot.com Michael Turton

Thanks fili. Interesting, and found a couple of blogs I didn’t know about.

Michael

Michael Turton’s last blog post..Does China have fuels reserves for Taiwan Attack?

http://blog.taiwan-guide.org/ David on Formosa

Taiwan Matters isn’t among the results, although perhaps it wasn’t included in the list of links you used. Otherwise interesting.

David on Formosa’s last blog post..Links 31 December 2007

http://blog.taiwan-guide.org David on Formosa

Taiwan Matters isn’t among the results, although perhaps it wasn’t included in the list of links you used. Otherwise interesting.

David on Formosa’s last blog post..Links 31 December 2007

http://formosaneijia.com Formosa Neijia

Very interesting! Thanks for this research. It gives me an idea of where I stand, at least as far as links are concerned. I always think that page hits are more important for me, though.

I feel very honored to be on a list with some of those blogs!

Happy New Year.

Formosa Neijia’s last blog post..Most impressive thing this year

http://formosaneijia.com/ Formosa Neijia

Very interesting! Thanks for this research. It gives me an idea of where I stand, at least as far as links are concerned. I always think that page hits are more important for me, though.

I feel very honored to be on a list with some of those blogs!

Happy New Year.

Formosa Neijia’s last blog post..Most impressive thing this year

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Yeah, I thought maybe the Taiwan Bloggers list doesn’t include everything, but it was the simplest RIP since all that’s in there are Taiwan blogs, where as links in Taiwan Feed and Michael’s are full of other sites.
Just for the record, since you mentioned them – they’re PR4, with ~8000 incoming links. ;)

Oh well…

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Yeah, I thought maybe the Taiwan Bloggers list doesn’t include everything, but it was the simplest RIP since all that’s in there are Taiwan blogs, where as links in Taiwan Feed and Michael’s are full of other sites.
Just for the record, since you mentioned them – they’re PR4, with ~8000 incoming links. ;)

Oh well…

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Formosa Neijia – thanks, that’s nice to hear. T

here are a few rankings like Alexa that help compare pageviews between websites, but I’m afraid they don’t handle blogging platforms like blogspot.com and wordpress.com very well. Maybe next time ;)

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Formosa Neijia – thanks, that’s nice to hear. T

here are a few rankings like Alexa that help compare pageviews between websites, but I’m afraid they don’t handle blogging platforms like blogspot.com and wordpress.com very well. Maybe next time ;)

http://keywords.oxus.net/ Kerim Friedman

Interesting list. I didn’t know Keywords had such a high page rank, despite having fewer incoming links. I suppose it is a byproduct of my other blog, Savage Minds, which is pretty well established, as well as the fact that I’ve been blogging for a very long time.

A small note: You refer to incoming links as coming from “websites” when it should say “web pages” For instance, I like to Turton a lot, and I suspect these numbers represent the aggregate of those links rather than just counting my website once. I suspect that Google gives more importance to the number of websites, since it prevents people from gaming the system (which, in turn, is important for Google’s advertising revenue).

Kerim Friedman’s last blog post..Warner Taiwan Image Collection

http://keywords.oxus.net/ Kerim Friedman

Interesting list. I didn’t know Keywords had such a high page rank, despite having fewer incoming links. I suppose it is a byproduct of my other blog, Savage Minds, which is pretty well established, as well as the fact that I’ve been blogging for a very long time.

A small note: You refer to incoming links as coming from “websites” when it should say “web pages” For instance, I like to Turton a lot, and I suspect these numbers represent the aggregate of those links rather than just counting my website once. I suspect that Google gives more importance to the number of websites, since it prevents people from gaming the system (which, in turn, is important for Google’s advertising revenue).

Kerim Friedman’s last blog post..Warner Taiwan Image Collection

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Michael – that’s great. Glad to hear.

I wish there was someway for us to try and dig deep for the lesser known high-quality Taiwan blogs that are out there and bring them up. Taiwan Bloggers is nice, Taiwan Feed was making an effort, you’re doing what you can with the side-bar and weekly links but it seems like there’s still something missing. We lack a community feeling, I think, that I see among Expats that live elsewhere – say, eh, in Israel.

There’s also the general problem I once mentioned we have (basic SEO etc.) that makes it difficult to notice Taiwan blogs in the search engine results about general Taiwan topics.

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Michael – that’s great. Glad to hear.

I wish there was someway for us to try and dig deep for the lesser known high-quality Taiwan blogs that are out there and bring them up. Taiwan Bloggers is nice, Taiwan Feed was making an effort, you’re doing what you can with the side-bar and weekly links but it seems like there’s still something missing. We lack a community feeling, I think, that I see among Expats that live elsewhere – say, eh, in Israel.

There’s also the general problem I once mentioned we have (basic SEO etc.) that makes it difficult to notice Taiwan blogs in the search engine results about general Taiwan topics.

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Kerim – thanks.

You’re right – webpages. Google does the same thing with counting webpages, but discounting the given authority when some webpages come from the same site. Still, a web-wide link from someone is worth more than a single page link, according to all search engines I know of.

A way for you to see where your high pagerank came from is through this following tool :
http://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker?domain=http%3A%2F%2Fkeywords.oxus.net%2F

which shows that some of the incoming links you have are from very high-authority sites (Boing-Boing?).

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Kerim – thanks.

You’re right – webpages. Google does the same thing with counting webpages, but discounting the given authority when some webpages come from the same site. Still, a web-wide link from someone is worth more than a single page link, according to all search engines I know of.

A way for you to see where your high pagerank came from is through this following tool :
http://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker?domain=http%3A%2F%2Fkeywords.oxus.net%2F

which shows that some of the incoming links you have are from very high-authority sites (Boing-Boing?).

http://www.therealtaiwan.com/ John

Alexa can give you a rough idea but it is too easy to manipulate the data… Just by using their tool bar yourself and doing normal maintenance/posting on your blog your site will increase in their rankings. So, if you want better Alexa rankings, go get their tool bar…

John’s last blog post..Half Mile Radius

http://www.therealtaiwan.com John

Alexa can give you a rough idea but it is too easy to manipulate the data… Just by using their tool bar yourself and doing normal maintenance/posting on your blog your site will increase in their rankings. So, if you want better Alexa rankings, go get their tool bar…

John’s last blog post..Half Mile Radius

http://www.therealtaiwan.com/ John

Good work on the listings. I’d be interested in seeing which blogging software as percentages that everyone was using, ie WordPress, Blogspot, WordPress.com, Joomla, etc… I’m not asking you to do it though… I will guess it is Blogspot followed by WordPress

John’s last blog post..Half Mile Radius

http://www.therealtaiwan.com John

Good work on the listings. I’d be interested in seeing which blogging software as percentages that everyone was using, ie WordPress, Blogspot, WordPress.com, Joomla, etc… I’m not asking you to do it though… I will guess it is Blogspot followed by WordPress

John’s last blog post..Half Mile Radius

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

John – Thanks.

Well, that’s actually easy to see. Most of the Taiwan blogs, unfortunately, are not self-hosted. This is partly what’s preventing the Taiwan blogosphere from really taking off.

I would like to see at least the top-bloggers move into a normal WordPress platform, like the Bushman and The Memoirs recently did.

Maybe we should put on a WordPress Taiwan camp, and help move those who are looking to boost things up a little. Tai-zhong seems like an ideal in-the-middle kind of place to do it. How about that?

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

John – Thanks.

Well, that’s actually easy to see. Most of the Taiwan blogs, unfortunately, are not self-hosted. This is partly what’s preventing the Taiwan blogosphere from really taking off.

I would like to see at least the top-bloggers move into a normal WordPress platform, like the Bushman and The Memoirs recently did.

Maybe we should put on a WordPress Taiwan camp, and help move those who are looking to boost things up a little. Tai-zhong seems like an ideal in-the-middle kind of place to do it. How about that?

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

John – with that said, I think Alexa does an okay job when it comes to the top 100,000 and it’s the only tool available. I think it’s better than nothing.
I challenge you to make it to the Alexa top 100,000 (it’d be easier for you to get advertisers, too ;) ).

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

John – with that said, I think Alexa does an okay job when it comes to the top 100,000 and it’s the only tool available. I think it’s better than nothing.
I challenge you to make it to the Alexa top 100,000 (it’d be easier for you to get advertisers, too ;) ).

http://globetrotteri.wordpress.com/files/2007/01/ancient-dragon.JPG Carrie

Very cool Fili. This was a nice little year-end treat for me. I had no idea my blog was doing so well.

My Several Worlds isn’t even a year old yet, and although I love blogging, I really don’t know much about the whole process. I’m not sure what I’ve been doing to attract so much attention. I’m still trying to work up enough nerve to host my own domain but I don’t know if I’m proficient enough with computers to do so at the moment.

Thanks again and Happy New Year!

http://globetrotteri.wordpress.com/files/2007/01/ancient-dragon.JPG Carrie

Very cool Fili. This was a nice little year-end treat for me. I had no idea my blog was doing so well.

My Several Worlds isn’t even a year old yet, and although I love blogging, I really don’t know much about the whole process. I’m not sure what I’ve been doing to attract so much attention. I’m still trying to work up enough nerve to host my own domain but I don’t know if I’m proficient enough with computers to do so at the moment.

Thanks again and Happy New Year!

http://toshuo.com/ Mark

Nice collection of stats. BTW, I think my Page Rank is 0, not 4.

Mark’s last blog post..Holly’s Birthday Party and Friends

http://toshuo.com/ Mark

Nice collection of stats. BTW, I think my Page Rank is 0, not 4.

Mark’s last blog post..Holly’s Birthday Party and Friends

http://www.thememoirs.org/ Range

Interesting list. To be fair, you’d have to include my mirror blog on Worpdress.com, range.wordpress.com. That blog has been running longer and gets more hits. I’m slowly working up thememoirs.org.

Range’s last blog post..Happy New Year And Season Greetings

http://www.thememoirs.org/ Range

Interesting list. To be fair, you’d have to include my mirror blog on Worpdress.com, range.wordpress.com. That blog has been running longer and gets more hits. I’m slowly working up thememoirs.org.

Range’s last blog post..Happy New Year And Season Greetings

http://www.therealtaiwan.com/ John

If there is interest in something like that I could make some time for it. I have been enjoying WordPress for a long time now.

Some things are very easy to do, but if you don’t know that they even exist, then why would you do it. WordPress, conveniently, is working these “fixes” into their newer versions.

Maybe a WordPress MU for Taiwan bloggers could come out of it…

John’s last blog post..Taipei 101 New Years Eve Fireworks Display

http://www.therealtaiwan.com John

If there is interest in something like that I could make some time for it. I have been enjoying WordPress for a long time now.

Some things are very easy to do, but if you don’t know that they even exist, then why would you do it. WordPress, conveniently, is working these “fixes” into their newer versions.

Maybe a WordPress MU for Taiwan bloggers could come out of it…

John’s last blog post..Taipei 101 New Years Eve Fireworks Display

http://www.therealtaiwan.com/ John

I just checked quickly and your site is a PR 4.

John’s last blog post..Taipei 101 New Years Eve Fireworks Display

http://www.therealtaiwan.com John

I just checked quickly and your site is a PR 4.

John’s last blog post..Taipei 101 New Years Eve Fireworks Display

http://thedailybubbletea.com/ Todd

Cool list Fili! I don’t know much about these numbers but it’s reassuring to see that I’m not last in any of the categories.

Todd’s last blog post..Happy New Year!

http://thedailybubbletea.com Todd

Cool list Fili! I don’t know much about these numbers but it’s reassuring to see that I’m not last in any of the categories.

Todd’s last blog post..Happy New Year!

http://josambro.blogspot.com/ Joshua Samuel Brown

Hooray! I’m page-rank FIVE!!!!

FIVE! FIVE! FIVE! FIVE!
Let’s sing a song about five!
How many is five?

One!
Two!
Three!
Four!
FIIIIIIIIVVVVE!!!!!

FIIIIIVE Snarky Tofu!!!!!

Joshua Samuel Brown’s last blog post..Current Events Suck

http://josambro.blogspot.com Joshua Samuel Brown

Hooray! I’m page-rank FIVE!!!!

FIVE! FIVE! FIVE! FIVE!
Let’s sing a song about five!
How many is five?

One!
Two!
Three!
Four!
FIIIIIIIIVVVVE!!!!!

FIIIIIVE Snarky Tofu!!!!!

Joshua Samuel Brown’s last blog post..Current Events Suck

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

WordPress MU is just like WordPress.com, but I’d like to see the bloggers running their own domain with their own platform and plugins.

If you can offer them WordPress MU where they host their own domains, and offer them a wide enough array of plugins – that could be a cool project.

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

WordPress MU is just like WordPress.com, but I’d like to see the bloggers running their own domain with their own platform and plugins.

If you can offer them WordPress MU where they host their own domains, and offer them a wide enough array of plugins – that could be a cool project.

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Carrie – thanks. I strongly recommend that you do the switch to a new domain and your own self hosted platform. I was once, not too long ago, like you. This blog was actually running in blogspot for over a year and I had no idea how to set up a WordPress, but – part of the whole fun is that you learn a lot while you do it and I learned things as I needed them. If you wish, I’m sure many – like myself – would be happy to help you do the switch.

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Carrie – thanks. I strongly recommend that you do the switch to a new domain and your own self hosted platform. I was once, not too long ago, like you. This blog was actually running in blogspot for over a year and I had no idea how to set up a WordPress, but – part of the whole fun is that you learn a lot while you do it and I learned things as I needed them. If you wish, I’m sure many – like myself – would be happy to help you do the switch.

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Range – true. I know your old blog and it is one of high authority – very similar to the one you’ve transferred to. I think it just wasn’t in the site where I ripped the links from.

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Range – true. I know your old blog and it is one of high authority – very similar to the one you’ve transferred to. I think it just wasn’t in the site where I ripped the links from.

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Todd – aside from people recognizing you in the MRT, I’ve talked to a lot of my international student friends about their blogging habits. Most of those who do read blogs usually mention that they follow at least the following two blogs – Michael’s and yours. You (and your girlfriend) are a blogging celebrity in Taiwan… ;)

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Todd – aside from people recognizing you in the MRT, I’ve talked to a lot of my international student friends about their blogging habits. Most of those who do read blogs usually mention that they follow at least the following two blogs – Michael’s and yours. You (and your girlfriend) are a blogging celebrity in Taiwan… ;)

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Joshua – :D

I’m afraid I’ve only recently discovered your blog, and was happy to find out that you co-author Lonely Planet Taiwan and other important guide book about our region. You’re doing what I consider as holy work – I’d give you a 10… ;)

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Joshua – :D

I’m afraid I’ve only recently discovered your blog, and was happy to find out that you co-author Lonely Planet Taiwan and other important guide book about our region. You’re doing what I consider as holy work – I’d give you a 10… ;)

http://www.thenhbushman.com/ MJ Klein

Fili, thanks for the stats listing. to anyone considering a move to a hosted domain, i suggest the sooner, the better. i lost technorati and google ranks when i moved. sure it’s going up and it’ll get there eventually. but the big sites will become very small as soon as they move to a hosted domain, so you’ll just have to live with the pain. but the good news is, the site visits and page views will increase as you develop your own brand.

MJ Klein’s last blog post..419 Scammers Get Smart With New Domains – Assistance From US Co-conspirators

http://www.thenhbushman.com MJ Klein

Fili, thanks for the stats listing. to anyone considering a move to a hosted domain, i suggest the sooner, the better. i lost technorati and google ranks when i moved. sure it’s going up and it’ll get there eventually. but the big sites will become very small as soon as they move to a hosted domain, so you’ll just have to live with the pain. but the good news is, the site visits and page views will increase as you develop your own brand.

MJ Klein’s last blog post..419 Scammers Get Smart With New Domains – Assistance From US Co-conspirators

http://www.therealtaiwan.com/ John

There are ways to transfer your PR ranking to the new site. It isn’t that hard, but it isn’t so easy either… Fili has some documentation out there for transferring from Blogspot to WordPress and maintaining Google PR.

John’s last blog post..Ma Ying Jiu

http://www.therealtaiwan.com John

There are ways to transfer your PR ranking to the new site. It isn’t that hard, but it isn’t so easy either… Fili has some documentation out there for transferring from Blogspot to WordPress and maintaining Google PR.

John’s last blog post..Ma Ying Jiu

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Bushman, John – this is how to move from blogger to wordpress without losing authority and incoming links. Redirect this way :
http://www.techcounter.com/wordpress/301-permanent-redirect-from-blogger-beta-to-wordpress/
http://www.techcounter.com/wordpress/migrate-from-new-blogger-beta-to-wordpress-using-wordpress-22/

If anybody needs help with that, let me know. Good luck.

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Bushman, John – this is how to move from blogger to wordpress without losing authority and incoming links. Redirect this way :
http://www.techcounter.com/wordpress/301-permanent-redirect-from-blogger-beta-to-wordpress/
http://www.techcounter.com/wordpress/migrate-from-new-blogger-beta-to-wordpress-using-wordpress-22/

If anybody needs help with that, let me know. Good luck.

http://michaelturton.blogspot.com/ Michael Turton

fili, i have a wordpress site set up, and I’ll be moving over there in a month or so. Some great comments on this thread.

Michael

http://michaelturton.blogspot.com Michael Turton

fili, i have a wordpress site set up, and I’ll be moving over there in a month or so. Some great comments on this thread.

Michael

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Michael – I do hope you mean a self hosted WordPress and not WordPress.com . Either way – congratulations. Looking forward to seeing that in action.

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Michael – I do hope you mean a self hosted WordPress and not WordPress.com . Either way – congratulations. Looking forward to seeing that in action.

http://www.frostfox.com/blog Frostfox

This list isn’t right! My blog should be at the top of all the lists! I mean…..look at my banner, it’s so pretty! Come on people start linking to it! http://www.frostfox.com/blog

Frostfox’s last blog post..The Return of Taipei Days

http://www.frostfox.com/blog Frostfox

This list isn’t right! My blog should be at the top of all the lists! I mean…..look at my banner, it’s so pretty! Come on people start linking to it! http://www.frostfox.com/blog

Frostfox’s last blog post..The Return of Taipei Days

http://onlyredheadintaiwan.blogspot.com/ Robert

Why exactly would the Taiwan blogosphere be boosted by everyone moving to WordPress.

I’d certainly be willing to do it if it would help. I’ve got another WordPress site, so I’m somewhat familiar with it, but I find blogspot much easier to use.

Enlighten me, please.

By the Fili. Thanks for the post. It was quite interesting, and I found several new Taiwan sites as a result. Including yours!

Robert’s last blog post..Independence? Not if my Chinese-made globe has anything to say about it…

http://onlyredheadintaiwan.blogspot.com/ Robert

Why exactly would the Taiwan blogosphere be boosted by everyone moving to WordPress.

I’d certainly be willing to do it if it would help. I’ve got another WordPress site, so I’m somewhat familiar with it, but I find blogspot much easier to use.

Enlighten me, please.

By the Fili. Thanks for the post. It was quite interesting, and I found several new Taiwan sites as a result. Including yours!

Robert’s last blog post..Independence? Not if my Chinese-made globe has anything to say about it…

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Robert – great, glad to hear that.
“boosting” only has to do with simple Search Engine Optimization that can only be done on your own platform, so that search engines will be able to understand your site better and rank it higher on keyword results. It’s usually a 1 hour tweak that makes a huge difference… and trust me I had a hard time believing how big a difference this would make but my blog is living proof for this “boost” actually happening.
It’s not only WordPress, though it’s also having your own domain and not being on a subdomain, and other things like that …

Blogspot easier to use than WordPress, BTW, kind’o surprises me… but I guess habit does that.

http://www.filination.com/blog fiLi

Robert – great, glad to hear that.
“boosting” only has to do with simple Search Engine Optimization that can only be done on your own platform, so that search engines will be able to understand your site better and rank it higher on keyword results. It’s usually a 1 hour tweak that makes a huge difference… and trust me I had a hard time believing how big a difference this would make but my blog is living proof for this “boost” actually happening.
It’s not only WordPress, though it’s also having your own domain and not being on a subdomain, and other things like that …

Blogspot easier to use than WordPress, BTW, kind’o surprises me… but I guess habit does that.

http://onlyredheadintaiwan.blogspot.com/ Robert

I see.

Yeah, and blogspot is easier for me because it’s the first platform I used.

Robert’s last blog post..Independence? Not if my Chinese-made globe has anything to say about it…

http://onlyredheadintaiwan.blogspot.com/ Robert

I see.

Yeah, and blogspot is easier for me because it’s the first platform I used.

Robert’s last blog post..Independence? Not if my Chinese-made globe has anything to say about it…

waltz

its basically, they themselves got problem….at least we are english educated since young, unlike them…onli know “mia niah yu” and chinese…….even our aunties and uncle also know english….

if they happened to meet some of our professional……dun think they can communicate with them with english….cos they simple dun understand……

As a matter of fact, the general taiwanese public reference their entertainment variety shows as nothing but fulla crap and junks, nothing worthy of paying attention to, uneducational. They ran out topics coz their producer cannot produce anything else and use our native culture here as a joke.

The TV station deserves our sympathy, likewise their celebs for their narrow mindedness and being so shortsighted.

We on the other hand stands proud and souverign in UN flying our multi-racial flag.

WE ARE SINGAPOREANS!

waltz

its basically, they themselves got problem….at least we are english educated since young, unlike them…onli know “mia niah yu” and chinese…….even our aunties and uncle also know english….

if they happened to meet some of our professional……dun think they can communicate with them with english….cos they simple dun understand……

As a matter of fact, the general taiwanese public reference their entertainment variety shows as nothing but fulla crap and junks, nothing worthy of paying attention to, uneducational. They ran out topics coz their producer cannot produce anything else and use our native culture here as a joke.

The TV station deserves our sympathy, likewise their celebs for their narrow mindedness and being so shortsighted.

We on the other hand stands proud and souverign in UN flying our multi-racial flag.

WE ARE SINGAPOREANS!

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