Where do most Filipinos Blog?
Abe posted an interesting analysis on Why Blogger isn’t that Popular in the Philippines. In fact, I would not really wonder why it’s not that popular. With Friendster dominating the social networking space in the Philippines and with it having a blogging feature (which is powered by TypePad), I won’t have that much of a doubt if Friendster would be the most widely used website by Filipinos for blogging. In fact, there are about 182,000 search results in Google using the search term “blogs.friendster.com“. Please do take note that I applied a filter here to show only results that are in Filipino language. Thus, the results for those who are written in English but owned by a Filipino is not included.
How about Blogging Platforms here in the Philippines?
There are actually a lot of blogs written in Filipino using Blogger.com. According to Google Results, there are around 1.4 million blogs that are in Filipino that are blogspot.com hosted blogs. And most of it are spam blogs.
Well, according to Google Trends for Websites, (excluding social networking websites), WordPress.com is more popular here in the Philippines, with LiveJournal.com on the far second, TypePad.com coming third, i.ph coming fourth and Blogger.com does not have any data to show which I find really weird since they own the site.
Why is Blogger.com not that popular?
It could be because of its interface design. It could also be because of the lack of some features or because it was behind with other blogging platforms in terms of features.
What blogging platform do you use?
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Try this link: http://www.google.com/trends?q=i.ph%2C+wordpress.com%2C+blogspot.com%2C+typepad.com%2C+livejournal.com and look at Philippines. Blogger is hawt.
Well, that is for all regions Drew
But if we’re going to use this link with geographic region set to the Philippines, WordPress.com is still hotter..
The data would only consider Filipinos living in the Philippines because it would be easier this way.
and also, you’ll notice there that there is no data for blogspot.com or blogger.com in Google Trends for Websites
as for compete.com there’s data there but geographic location is not being considered there
I was originally using WordPress, but I sort of ran out of funds so I switched to Blogger. I still prefer WordPress (using it now for my team’s portfolio) because everything’s so seamless. With Blogger I keep going back to Picasa just to fix my images and YouTube for video imports. Hayz.
If Blogger’s interface would become like Multiply’s (you can do everything in one platform), then it would probably have more users.