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   Michael Turton  |  December 31st, 2007 at 6:36 am #

   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?

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   David on Formosa » Links 31 December 2007  |  December 31st, 2007 at 8:04 am #

   [...] FiLi does an interesting ranking of Taiwan blogs. [...]

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   David on Formosa  |  December 31st, 2007 at 8:06 am #

   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

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   Formosa Neijia  |  December 31st, 2007 at 8:57 am #

   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

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   fiLi  |  December 31st, 2007 at 10:33 am #

   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…

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   fiLi  |  December 31st, 2007 at 10:35 am #

   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

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   Kerim Friedman  |  December 31st, 2007 at 10:38 am #

   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

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   fiLi  |  December 31st, 2007 at 10:42 am #

   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.

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   fiLi  |  December 31st, 2007 at 10:50 am #

   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?).

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    John  |  December 31st, 2007 at 12:37 pm #

    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

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    John  |  December 31st, 2007 at 12:57 pm #

    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

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    fiLi  |  December 31st, 2007 at 3:07 pm #

    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?

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    fiLi  |  December 31st, 2007 at 3:11 pm #

    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 ).

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    Carrie  |  December 31st, 2007 at 3:58 pm #

    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!

15. 

    Taiwan’s Top English Bloggers of 2007 and Some New Year’s Cheer « My Several Worlds  |  December 31st, 2007 at 4:40 pm #

    [...] surprise from Fili of Fili’s World when I came home today after work. He compiled a list of Taiwan’s Top English Bloggers of 2007 and yours truly is ranked number 10 out of hundreds of fabulous bloggers in the Taiwan blogosphere. [...]

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    Mark  |  December 31st, 2007 at 8:00 pm #

    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

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    Range  |  December 31st, 2007 at 8:15 pm #

    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

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    John  |  January 1st, 2008 at 2:02 am #

    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

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    John  |  January 1st, 2008 at 2:06 am #

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

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

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    Todd  |  January 1st, 2008 at 10:14 am #

    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!

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    Joshua Samuel Brown  |  January 1st, 2008 at 11:15 am #

    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

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    fiLi  |  January 1st, 2008 at 7:47 pm #

    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.

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    fiLi  |  January 1st, 2008 at 7:50 pm #

    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.

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    fiLi  |  January 1st, 2008 at 7:52 pm #

    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.

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    fiLi  |  January 1st, 2008 at 7:54 pm #

    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…

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    fiLi  |  January 1st, 2008 at 7:58 pm #

    Joshua -

    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…

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    MJ Klein  |  January 2nd, 2008 at 2:00 am #

    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

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    John  |  January 2nd, 2008 at 2:44 am #

    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

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    fiLi  |  January 2nd, 2008 at 8:26 am #

    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.

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    Michael Turton  |  January 5th, 2008 at 10:51 pm #

    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

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    fiLi  |  January 5th, 2008 at 10:55 pm #

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

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    Frostfox  |  January 10th, 2008 at 7:49 pm #

    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

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    Robert  |  January 17th, 2008 at 1:51 am #

    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…

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    fiLi  |  January 17th, 2008 at 12:34 pm #

    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.

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    Robert  |  January 18th, 2008 at 6:59 am #

    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…

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    waltz  |  February 12th, 2008 at 8:01 pm #

    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!

37. 

    Back Link Lovin’  |  March 24th, 2008 at 10:20 pm #

    [...] Fili lists My Several Worlds as one of the top English language blogs of 2007 in Taiwan. [...]

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    Taiwan’s Top English Bloggers of 2007 and Some New Year’s Cheer  |  March 25th, 2008 at 12:27 am #

    [...] surprise from Fili of Fili’s World when I came home today after work. He compiled a list of Taiwan’s Top English Bloggers of 2007 and yours truly is ranked number 10 out of hundreds of fabulous bloggers in the Taiwan blogosphere. [...]