October 12th, 2009

Freshly Ratified Blogs Batch #24 PBA Edition

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Congratulations PBA 2009 winners! You’ve been ratified!

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August 17th, 2009

Philippines Top 10 Blog Movers

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With formula changes and new metrics included, measuring the growth of Philippine blogs will require a much longer period of time to generate. However for this mid-year report, we intend to give a snapshot by reporting top 10 blog movers in terms of Feedburner subscription, Technorati authority, and Alexa rank growth.

Here are the blogs that made it to list covering the period of January 2009 to June 2009. Note that only those with base data as of January 2009 were included in this report:

Technorati Top 10 Movers

Feedburner Top 10 Movers

Alexa Top 10 Movers

I’ll be presenting the above and observations on blogging growth trends as well in our webinar this August 18 from 11 am to 12 noon (Manila time). Feel free to join if you have time.

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June 30th, 2009

Ratified.org Interviews: Lyle Santos

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Indeed, many of the brilliant minds of the Philippine blogosphere hail from Davao City. And Lyle Santos is certainly no exception. Unfazed by his success, Lyle is alway eager to help others succeed on their blogs through monetization. His site, Pinoy R.N., is an extremely popular hangout of nurses and nurses-to-be. He is also a great photographer and dabbles in designing Plurk themes. Here’s more of Lyle and his blogging life:

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June 28th, 2009

Freshly Ratified Blogs Batch #23

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Congrats, bloggers!

Note to newly added bloggers: Ratified.org buttons are currently down. I’ll try to resolve this in the next few weeks.

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June 27th, 2009

Ratified.org Interviews: Aileen Apolo

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Aileen Apolo is a great friend of mine who takes her job at Google rather seriously. Because of her hard work, Google has made great strides in reaching out to the Philippine market, what with the recent Independence Day Doodle and the flurry of events that saw its top engineers coming in and out of the country. She is also an avid blogger and here she tells us how she started out and gives us her thoughts on the local blogosphere:

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June 26th, 2009

Ratified.org Interviews: Jayvee Fernandez

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In our slice of the blogosphere, everyone knows Jayvee Fernandez. Seriously, who doesn’t? He co-founded ultra-cool BlogBank and currently holds Editor gigs for Uno Magazine and Splashpress Media. Heck, he even teaches at AIM. Jayvee lives and breathes new media. Here he shares a little bit about himself and his thoughts about blogging:

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June 25th, 2009

Ratified.org Buttons Down. Again.

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Ratified.org buttons have been disabled due to some server issues. They’ll be back up soon. Thanks for your patience.

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June 15th, 2009

Submitting a Blog for Ratification

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Ratified.org now has a new submission form for new blogs.

For a blog to become ratified, it must meet these requirements:

1. Blog must be Philippine-made, or made by a Filipino, or about an aspect of the Philippines.
2. The blog’s feed must be hosted by Feedburner.
3. Blog must be live, actively updated and not derelict or under construction.
4. Blogs with adult content will no longer be accepted.
5. Spammy blogs will never be accepted.
6. Blog owner must complete all required fields for the blog to be considered.

Due to volume, ratification may take as long as 1-3 months. Please be patient.

Follow @andrew_ds on Twitter for freshly ratified blog announcements.

Submit your blog here.

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June 2nd, 2009

Freshly Ratified Blogs Batch #22

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Serving up Batch #22! Welcome to Ratified.org!

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May 29th, 2009

Freshly Ratified Blogs Batch #21

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Welcome to Ratified.org fellow bloggers!

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