50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia
February 6, 2007 by Gaman
One of the topics that came across my mind last weekend was to compile 100 of the most influential blogs in Malaysia .
Currently, there’s no straight forward formula that I could use to determine who the most influential bloggers are in the Malaysian blogosphere. Granted, I could have utilised any metric to come up with a list but does it really represent the real influential blogs list?
Why Technorati?
I’ve decided to use Technorati to rank blogs for several reasons. While I am aware that it’s not without its flaws, the lack of other reliable and readily accessible metrics has made me think that Technorati is the best option I have.
One of commonly available metrics used to rank a site is the Alexa Traffic Rankings. The problem with Alexa is that it’s highly unreliable because it’s biased towards tech savvy or webmasters traffic. In addition, it has a limited reach and the only traffic counted is from those who have the Alexa toolbar installed in their browser.
To show how skewed Alexa ranking can be, let’s compare Sabahan.com with LimKitSiang.com blog. While, the later gets an average of 2200+ visitors daily, Sabahan.com still ranks higher in Alexa ranking even though it only gets a couple of hundreds visitors daily.
Other metric that I could’ve considered using was the number of Bloglines or Feedburner subscribers a blog has. Problem is, the number does not always correspond to a blog’s traffic level where it can be used to gauge a blog’s influence.
Take KennySia.com as an example, it gets an average of 14,000 visitors per day but its Feedburner count indicates only 90 readers have became subscribes to the blog. Basing one’s judgment on this metric alone would exclude kennysia.com as one of the most popular blogs in Malaysia .
I suspect one of the reasons for the lower than expected count is that, local blog readers might prefer to visit a blog directly rather than reading it via their feed readers. This observation is based on my own Feedburner statistics where I found that most of my feed subscribers are coming from the US and the UK .
Other metrics such as Sitemeter could be useful but only a handful of blogs enable public access to their statistics.
What Defines Influence?
The next question one should ask is “what defines influence”?
Shouldn’t it be based on the number of people talking about you and your writings, or the number of feed subscribers or the number of unique visitors coming to your blog daily?
How about the niche where your blog belongs to? Shouldn’t it be taken into consideration when determining a blog’s influence? Surely a popular political blogs such as that of Jeff Ooi Screenshot is more influential than a personal blog such as KennySia.com right?
So, ideally I should come up with some kind of formula that take all the above into consideration to gauge the influence of a blog. But since I’m not writing a PhD thesis here, I’ve to come back to using Technorati to get some idea of who are the most influential bloggers in Malaysia .
Understanding Technorati Numbers
Technorati ranking is based on the number of links pointing at a blog in the last 180 days. The 180 day window means that ranks and link counts go up and down.
Technorati ranks a blog relative to other blogs in the world. In a way, it shows how much impact a blog has on the blogosphere in general.
Note that since blogs often have the same number of blogs linking to them, several blogs can share a ranking. The reason why I’ve selected top 50 blogs and ignored 51 to 100 is because this range can be sketchy.
Obviously more blogs share the same lower positions and it’s impossible to find all these unreported number of blogs that have the same rankings.
The Disadvantages of Using Technorati
One big problem using Technorati ranking to measure a blog influence is that it considers all links to be equal. So does it really measures a blog influence (aka authority) or merely states the popularity of a blog? Obviously these are two different things.
If a blog linked from 100 most authoritative, high trafficked blogs, would it has the same authority as another blog linked from 100 least authoritative blogs? Common sense tells us those two blogs are not similar but this is what Technorati fails to take into consideration.
Another problem with Technorati is that the ranking system can be easily manipulated. Given enough motivation, a group of bloggers can move up the rankings by constantly linking up to each other blogs.
Similarly a blog’s rank can climb faster due to the link exchange activities conducted by an overzealous blogger. Obviously it would get harder as you climb up the ranking tree.
A blog’s ranking could shoot up through the roof if a post or the blogger suddenly becomes popular (Rocky’s Bru? ) or a post got into the digg.com’s front page.
Old timers would naturally enjoy higher rankings because of the higher number of inbound links accumulated over time. This is obviously not one of Technorati’s disadvantages.
Those bloggers who are offering free Wordpress themes would have a better chance to rank higher in the list because their blog’s link would appear all over the place. Two of such bloggers who made it into the top 10 are Sapiensbryan.com and alexallied.com.
While there’s nothing wrong with giving away free themes, this practice can still influence a blog’s ranking regardless of its content. Just for the record though, I think Sapiensbryan.com andalexallied.com have some good content in their blog.
There are several reasons why a popular blog is not included in the list.
- A blog won’t make it into the list if it’s down and was not accessible when I conducted the search (eg http://www.sixthseal.com/ )
- If a blog was moved from other domain, it’ll lose its previous ranking. Example for this is Teresakok.com which was moved from teresakok.blogsome.com.
- If Technorati is unable to index a blog for whatever reason, it won’t make it into the list.
- If you have a popular blog but you don’t write about local issues, you won’t be included in the list if I don’t know that you are a Malaysian. Although you do not have to be Malaysian to be included (eg shaolintiger.com)
- Perhaps, I am just not aware that you blog exists
Despite the obvious shortcomings of how Technorati ranking works, I would say that it’s still the closest I can get to determine who the most influential Malaysian bloggers are.
I believe the number of inbound links correlates to a blog influence and authority to a certain degree. I don’t know to what extent but certainly it can’t be dismissed.
Wisdom of the Crowds
While the Malaysian blogosphere is a vibrant and diverse place, there are few well-established blogs which occupy ranking below the 15,000 mark.
The top 50 list below is by no means definitive or accurate. Having said that, let this be a starting point to get some insights into who are the most influential Malaysian bloggers.
If you know of any blogs which should be in the list (according to Technorati), please let me know in the comment section. Hopefully with everyone’s help and participation, the list will reflects the ‘real’ top 50 more closely.
Some stats
- 28% of the Malaysian Top 50 Bloggers write about personal stuff
- 16% write about politics
- 16% write about technology
| No | Blog Title | Technorati Rank | Category |
| 1 | kennysia.com | Rank: 234 (4,828 links from 2,406 blogs) | Personal |
| 2 | SapiensBryan.com | Rank: 604 (2,676 links from 1,577 blogs) | Technology |
| 3 | Hemmy.net | Rank: 1,667 (1,862 links from 932 blogs) | Humor |
| 4 | JeffOoi.com Screenshot | Rank: 2,009 (2,824 links from 836 blogs) | Politics |
| 5 | LiewCF.com | Rank: 3,346 (1,532 links from 613 blogs) | Technology |
| 6 | Yasmin The Story Teller | Rank: 3,594 (1,026 links from 585 blogs) | Entertainment |
| 7 | Afdlin Shauki | Rank: 3,750 (874 links from 569 blogs) | Entertainment |
| 8 | PaulTan.Org | Rank: 7,360 (863 links from 369 blogs) | Auto |
| 9 | Alex Allied | Rank: 8,367 (589 links from 345 blogs) | Personal |
| 10 | Rocky’s Bru | Rank: 8,402 (1,015 links from 344 blogs) | Politics |
| 11 | Lim Kit Siang | Rank: 8,593 (826 links from 337 blogs) | Politics |
| 12 | Hot-screensaver | Rank: 8,976 (531 links from 323 blogs) | Personal |
| 13 | EVERiBODi LAFU ROJAKS | Rank: 9,411 (785 links from 310 blogs) | Humor |
| 14 | 5Xmom | Rank: 10,439 (1,131 links from 297 blogs) | Personal |
| 15 | masak-masak | Rank: 11,717 (648 links from 269 blogs) | Food |
| 16 | smashin’ pOpstar | Rank: 12,698 (669 links from 254 blogs) | Personal |
| 17 | cheeserland.com | Rank: 13,733 (439 links from 236 blogs) | Personal |
| 18 | Kahsoon.com | Rank: 15,091 (427 links from 218 blogs) | Humor |
| 19 | minishorts.net | Rank: 16,256 (398 links from 202 blogs) | Personal |
| 20 | Patric Teo Tokkok | Rank: 18,289 (282 links from 182 blogs) | Personal |
| 21 | FriedBeef’s Tech | Rank: 20,119 (356 links from 168 blogs) | Technology |
| 22 | Amanz.net | Rank: 21,013 (430 links from 161 blogs) | Technology |
| 23 | Kickdefella | Rank: 21,251 (505 links from 159 blogs) | Politics |
| 24 | CyberHackz.net | Rank: 21,381 (558 links from 158 blogs) | Technology |
| 25 | SultanMuzaffar | Rank: 21,514 (324 links from 157 blogs) | Entertainment |
| 26 | Fireangel | Rank: 21,668 (348 links from 156 blogs) | Personal |
| 27 | Lagu Top Masa Kini | Rank: 22,088 (298 links from 153 blogs) | Entertainment |
| 28 | jasiminne anorexic penguin | Rank: 22,088 (264 links from 153 blogs) | Personal |
| 29 | Gobala Krishnan | Rank: 22,200 (365 links from 152 blogs) | Marketing |
| 30 | The Scribe A Kadir Jasin | Rank: 22,200 (269 links from 152 blogs) | Politics |
| 31 | A Gonzo Journal | Rank: 22,371 (381 links from 151 blogs) | Personal |
| 32 | As Suanie Sees It | Rank: 23,740 (457 links from 142 blogs) | Personal |
| 33 | Nizam Zakaria - Limau Nipis | Rank: 24,396 (269 links from 138 blogs) | Literature |
| 34 | Susan Loone | Rank: 25,146 (509 links from 134 blogs) | Politics |
| 35 | ShaolinTiger.com | Rank: 25,286 (337 links from 133 blogs) | Personal |
| 36 | Bibliobibuli | Rank: 25,921 (329 links from 130 blogs) | Literature |
| 37 | MichaelOoi.net | Rank: 26,568 (290 links from 127 blogs) | Personal |
| 38 | SaifulSham.com | Rank: 27,158 (386 links from 124 blogs) | Marketing |
| 39 | Faisal Tehrani | Rank: 27,639 (169 links from 122 blogs) | Literature |
| 40 | Raymond.CC Blog | Rank: 27,690 (276 links from 122 blogs) | Technology |
| 41 | RantingbyMM | Rank: 27,865 (241 links from 121 blogs) | Politics |
| 42 | Anwar Ibrahim | Rank: 28,570 (185 links from 120 blogs) | Politics |
| 43 | Eudcation In Malaysia | Rank: 29,571 (298 links from 116 blogs) | Education |
| 44 | SmartUsaha | Rank: 29,935 (298 links from 113 blogs) | Marketing |
| 45 | RotorBlog.com | Rank: 30,287 (170 links from 112 blogs) | Technology |
| 46 | Vincent Chow | Rank: 30,287 (158 links from 112 blogs) | Humor |
| 47 | Babe in the City - KL | Rank: 30,844 (398 links from 110 blogs) | Food |
| 48 | kyspeaks.com | Rank: 31,740 (261 links from 107 blogs) | Food |
| 49 | Irfan Khairi | Rank: 32,439 (398 links from 105 blogs) | Marketing |
| 50 | Aisehman.org | Rank: 32,858 (314 links from 104 blogs) | Politics |
Gaman you forgotten bout me *sad* keke
Sorry.. but you are not from Brunei are you?
Nice post
I used to be around 400+ ranking on Technorati, somehow lost all me links.
Too many arguments I think haha.
I’m Malaysian working in Brunei
Cool. I’ve included your blog in the list.
Good day M. Gaman,
I hope its ok to address u using your blogger nick name. I’m a student researching on malaysian political blogs. I’am wondering if u could help me with something. The statistic: percentage of blog types in Malaysia as u have state above is as follows:
Some stats
* 28% of the Malaysian Top 50 Bloggers write about personal stuff
* 16% write about politics
* 16% write about technology
I would like to ask, where did you get the stats, because I want to used it as data and reference for my research paper.I appreciate your attention and thank you.
Nice post, but I think you might want to look into the technorati details on the #2 guy. Most of the links are from his own network. All powered by the same “Hi Tech blog”, not exactly linked from other bloggers.
A combination of technorati ranks and traffic details might paint a slightly better picture though. But great job nonetheless.
ops you’ve considered the issue, my bad.
My webhost is #2!!!! Fhweet! His template is best ler. I used five of it on my blogs.
oh wow! just gotta know about this wonderful survey done by you a while ago. But i think Rojaks Is anything but influential la lol!
I’m in your top 50 list? Nice!
Cool. But anyway, could you reveal 51 to 100 as well. Many visitor sure like to see these list.
I can do that in my next post but I think it’s going to be a little sketchy.
omg!
Frankly, if the ranking is based on the number of feed subscribers, I’ll be at the spot of #97632252829.
Anyway, you must have spent quite an amount of time to come out with the list! Kudos to you!
Thank you.
just a request
can u make a list base of quality as well
not being bias meaning not just bimbo n funny blogs
but also blogs on politics, tech, arts etc
that will be more meaningful IMO
Relax, it’s based on Technorati
Hmm…don’t think some of the blogs should be included because they were only created about less than 6 months, I don’t think that is fair to other blogs which have been around for far much longer.
- MENJ
I don’t think a blog’s age matter that much though. If a new blog changes the world today, it got to be on the list.
Aww… are you jealous of the Top 50?
Menj: The big difference between your material and those on the Top 50 is that the latter’s material doesn’t sound bigoted.
Hardly jealous back then and not about to be jealous now. An anonymous coward like you would be too bigoted to see that, eh?
wow! very many thanks!
i had no idea i was “influential” and it makes me very happy to be so recognised, especially among such impressive bloggers
could i point out that i’d describe my blog as being about books and writing rather than personal?
You are right. I must have confused myself between your ranking and that of shaolintiger.com which I said was about literature! It’s corrected. Thanks.
Menj, but if these new blog managed a decent traffic and links, why must we de-listed them?
Blog age doesn’t mean the blog will be popular or ranking well in technorati.
Well decent traffic and links does not mean that they are “influential”, I thought the point of this post was to demarcate which blogs are the most influential in the Malaysian blogosphere? Of course some of these blogs are being run by individuals who are already influential in the real world, but this is the WWW and from the viewpoint of the WWW they are noobs, so why should they be accorded special treatment?
- MENJ
Very nice list. I think I haven’t visited at least 90% of the blogs in there, though a few I’d rather stay away from, due to personal dis-interest(like AnwarIbrahimBlog.com, ahaks!).
Shoot, you must’ve studied the blog ranking techniques for quite some time already, haven’t you? How will I ever find the time….
I’ve known about 60% of the blogs but it took me the whole weekends to complete the puzzle LOL
So, sabahan.com is number where?
At 51
Hi, Gaman,
Sorry lah, No 51 already booked ! Cool collection, anyway. Hope mine will be included in the 51 to 100 list. Or perhaps in the 100 to 1000 list
Why isn’t “Rojaks” in the list geh???
Great work and thxs so much. I must admit, I never thought my blog was influential but seeing these results does make me proud to be in the list with other M’sian bloggers I admire.
thanks for the correction, gaman
so litblogs now make up 4% of the most influential blogs? not bad.
menj - it isn’t about traffic, i get nowhere near as many hits as many others on the list, but i do have a great deal of reader-loyalty
if by no. of hits i doubt i’d have made the list
anyway, thanks for your hard work and for pointing the way to other blogs i need to read
didnt realised i was in the list until boo_licious informed me. i can never imagine my simple makan blog can be influential in any way but it’s great to be in there together with the giants. thanks for your effort for compiling this.
hey hey im no. 16 ! ahahah thanks a lot. didnt expect to be at that spot tho.
Forget to add in here.
Number 3 spot suppose belong to ZEO.
http://technorati.com/blogs/http://zeo.unic.net.my
Noted. Thanks.
The account is current suspended by the hosting company.
sorry, i can’t count
so faisal tehrani, nizam zakaria and me
6% litblogs!!!
Many thanks. Glad to be included in your 50 most influential list. But you can please put my blog name as Sloone or Susan Loone. I am at No. 34. Thanks a million.
Done
Thanks for your effort, I am sure we bloggers really appreciate your hard work!
I’m not sure how you actually conducted the scrape from technorati, a glaring absentee from your list is Education In Malaysia.
Please review your methodology and do a second pass and see who else have been left out.
Good effort nevertheless. Thank you.
OK will add that soon. Thanks for the feedback.
Just a note: Another reason why Kenny Sia’s feedcount is so low because he split it up (don’t ask me why). His RSS feeds have . Thanks for the listing anyhow, I never imagined I would reach #29
ps. I think another way to look at this list is the 50 most influential INSIDE the blogosphere. Sites like education in Malaysia (which would have been ranked #43 by the way if you included them) are much more influential outside the blogosphere.
Hmmm… I’m gonna do a post about this
I am sure i am not qualified to say here. not even in a million list. but i have to salute gaman for what he did. Im proud to be associated with gaman for im a sabahan too. not relative or whatever. just me being proud of him.
From my newbie list, i have to say the most influential blogs in Malaysia are, in the order i have to know them firsthand are 1)Gobala Krishnan(29)-because i learn wordpress 2)LiewCF(5) - because im using his theme and very helpful 3)sabahan.com - because he’s a gaman and sabahan. the rest are outside M’sia. Now thats i considered influential. To the rest, im sorry. either i’ve you later after knowing sabahan dot com or never heard you before. oh ya… 4)Raymond.cc(40) for his computer tech info.
Ok, dont shoot me. Just being honest. im proud in my area. the ultimate rc info provider in malaysia.
wow…kennysia….love his site
Hi, you’ve done a great job, Tabik to you!!
anyway my ahsoon has screw up with technorati, duno why? the lastime I was ranked 28k+.
Nvm, just hope that my AhBoon will be in your Top50 of 2007.
Your efforts to make the list are paid.
Thanks for include my blog..
Nice job and list!
wakakaz.. kennysia top of the pile!
Although this a good job you do, but this list meant nothing really. I mean, like certainly Jeff Ooi’s blog more influential than no. 2 and 3. And No. 2, as you say was up there because of the free Wordpress templates he offered, not that he is popular. Then, this is all based on technorati link. There are good blogs that are not being linked. It no mean that being linked a lot, is popular. Me agreed with this person called Menj. Traffic and links do not mean most influential
Obviously everyone has their own ‘perfect’ top list in mind.
If nobody likes to link to a particular ‘good’ blog, may be it’s just not ‘good enough’?
I cannot disagree with Gaman.We can all have our 50 most popular blog lists, and dsave for a few, most will differ for many good reasons. i am a new blooger and I will never ever make it into your Top 50 list, not even in your 100 list - but still, whatever the case may be, I admire your effort. At least, you started the ball rolling…
Sure or not? One of them is from Brunei that I don’t care to mention who. Maybe he sounds Malaysian.
oh man. I lost to SAifulsham….nvm lar. I know those guys and they are cool
Diana, I am working in Brunei but I am still a 100% Malaysian. Well I don’t see any rules in this list that says only Malaysians living in Malaysia qualify.
you totally forgot bout niknazmi.com.but nice piece there.
I did ran a check on niknazmi.com but unfortunately it was not properly indexed by Technorati.
Best recipes, foods and travel
* Rank: 31,849 (738 links from 108 blogs)
* URL: http://www.malaysiabest.net
(from Technorati)
Wakahkah, just want to jump in with my figures. This is one of my food blog call malaysiabest. When compared, I think masuk jugak kat empat puluh lapan. Never mind, saja wanna tumpang glamour.
I’ll update the list soon and see if I can include this blog
Great work. It’s really interesting. I Dugg this story too.
cool…. my inspiration!
Wallow!
My blog was ranked among the 50 Most Influential Blog in Malaysia… Couldn’t believe my eyes… :p
Thanks for you effort in compiling this list.. You rock!
Sabri SaifulSham
I’ve decided my ranking is not high enough..
So I need more links!
Hi there,
Good post for list of showing the most influencial blog in Malaysia. At least I am more inform on other popular bloggers within Malaysia.
http://technorati.com/search/ikram-zidane.com
# Rank: 9,623 (612 links from 305 blogs)
based on technorati, i should rank 14 ?
OK will consider that in the next update. Thanks.
I don’t think this list should be caled the “MOST INFLUENTIAL BLOG LIST” as it only takes into account how many blogs linking to a certain blog.
Kudos on compiling the list, but “INFLUENTIAL” is certainly not the right word.
Dear Sabahan,
There is a Malay blog at http://www.saifulislam.com that has a whopping 644 links (!!!) as stated on technorati here - http://technorati.com/search/saifulislam.com
I believe you should include this blog in your list. Otherwise, please provide us valid reasons why you didn’t.
The blog is not properly indexed by Technorati. As you can see there’s no ranking data there besides the number of links. Compare it to this
http://technorati.com/search/liewcf.com
Besides, the number of links for saifulislam.com actually lower than that of Aisehman.org which is currently at number 50. So saifulislam.com actually ranks lower than the top 50.
i try to search the blog above in blog direcory, it came out like this…,
“There are blogs, and then there’s whatever you just typed in. If it’s a blog, we don’t know about it. Maybe you made a typo. Or maybe it’s a blog that doesn’t exist. Maybe you don’t exist. (In which case, please ignore this.)”
interesting….. eventhough search through blog post produced 642 links at local malaysian time 3:46pm, Sun 11 Feb 2007.
BTW, I’ll have to remove Rotorblog in my next update because the blog actually belongs to a non Malaysian and doesn’t write about Malaysia.
cant wait to see the next update.. its probably be the most POPULAR BLOG. Like this post. its so popular and even to some, controversial. great stuff ere..!
bilalah Most popular SABAHAN BLOG! Hahahaha.
most influential? don’t agree. most linked agree.
How about fungkurs-network.net?
er.. that’s not a blog.
LOL. Ya bah. 1 more comment and this post gonna hit 100 comments… man. this post is really popular now. and people still disagreeing it. how cool is that.
Wow. Only after reading your post do I know the amount of interesting and cool blogs we have here in Malaysia. This was really useful.
Throw me on the list!!! =P
List of motivation….
What, no Health/medicine category?
Good work on the analysis. how long did it take u to do it?
Thanks. Took me couple of days
Syabas !!! Congrat on becoming 50 most influential blogs in Malaysia….and great write up on this article.
Man, i’m in mid 40’s and hope more Malaysian parents into blogging . Good example to our children.For all the children who will be taking UPSR soon …ALL THE BEST. Hope you can practice all the past year paper at http://malasbelajar.com
I am going to speak about social and media landscapes in singapore at the podcamp europe conference next week and i will be quoting your statistics about the top 50 bloggers in malaysia. cheers.
This is a great piece. I hope you can join the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007 writing project and share your thoughts about it.
Thank you.
this post is very informative! i am also thinking about the basis for putting up my list of emerging and influential blogs for 2007. i got some ideas here. thanks!
If I am not mistaken.. Honkiat.com is a malaysian blogger.. Why is he not in the List? Just a question
I think he was still ‘under the radar’ when the list was created. Or perhaps I’ve missed him. The list won’t be updated, instead a new one will be published next year.
any update on latest top50?
The list has changed somewhat but I believe most but not all of those who have made it into the current list will be in there
Hi, i know it is a long time since you posted the stats and analysis. But I will be having a talk this sunday to some politicians, and will be using the list of 50 in Malaysia. I have credited your blog in the use of the statistics.
hope that’s ok.
thanks.
That sounds cool. Thanks.
Hi, nice job. One question, how do I know my blog ranking if I am not in the top 50?
Well you need to compare your technorati ranking to that of other blogs like what I’ve done.
… and i made it already…
Nice article I’ll like to invite you to participate with our new project
Malaysia Boleh!
oh wow. I wish I was on this list. I need to work harder
Hm.. How about an updated list?? I think it will change now…
can you check my blog strength…plz….i don’t know how..
Thanks for sharing this information. I have been writing my blog since two weeks ago and hope i could be in that list.
good… good… this list can be to use as a tools to know more about Malaysian blooger. nice info.
How about an update of this list? This way we get to know about who went up/down and also the new comers
Sabahan… you need to update this list. Great job. May be try until 100th list.
this year,the list will be totally different from last year..xD
Gaman
Saya ko tidak kasih list sini.. ko kasih tambah lah bah 51 hehehehe 
actually i looking for something then suddenly cross pula masuk sini.. hehehe Add me in 51 list
really great list!
I’ll visit them
thanks for the list ya..i will check it out..i love good blog ^^
nice compilation. just stumbled on here and though now already 2008, most of them are still relevant; not that much changes…
i like liewcf blog.
cyeah…how come a…I will be the next number one blog in Malaysia draggin Kennysia down to number two. Damn, I’m motivated.
http://ilovekuching.com
wow. Its good and i hope i also will manage to do something like that. Its reallly good if we can have blog like them.
hi there, we’ve just started a blogsite called http://www.elohasnow.con about health & sustainable living starting in malaysia… drop by sometimes! And Sabahan, please say something about our blooming Ecotourism there too… topics like eco housing, plastic bags, yoga practice, organic gardening using EM, green fashion are all welcome as they are considered as part of eLOHAS lifestyle.
Great article you’ve written. I faithfully post articles in my blog http://www.dancesportmalaysia.blogspot.com 3 times a week. Many of my articles rank high in the Google Search Engine. In fact some are on page 1. However I still get less than 100 visitors a day. How can I drive traffic to my blog. For your info, my blog was launched in June 2008.
Best Wishes,
Dance Aficionado
http://www.dancesportmalaysia.blogspot.com
Getting traffic is the key to earning more from Adsense. Dance Aficionado, you can post comments to more blogs like this is one way of getting blog visitors.
Diana @ http://www.DianaTan.net
i agree with you diana. Traffis needed to make money such as adsense or others program. Even affiliate program also need traffic especially fresh traffic everyday.
Hi Gaman,
What about us we have an awesome T’rati rating, thousands of subscribers, are consumerists and thus a good cause ….
http://airasiaannus.blogspot.com/
Wha? What gives?
Thanks
Causeway Co-Op
Any solid hot tips for beginner like me?
i have been blogging since beginning of the year till now. My hits is super low…
I blog about cars, life and little investment related article… but mostly about Cars….
Go check it out @ http://www.edvinteo.com/
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YOu’re too awesome to write about this, and everything related to influential blogs in Malaysia!
Cheers!
More power!
Gaman, you do not have to add me to your 50 list, but read my blog
http://www.a-zearthly-beyond.blogspot.com
Great list Gaman, I think its about time to update the list as most blogs might have gone the drain.
Hi
50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia
Now. That is something we should think about. That is very important information. That is much more important then:
- Corruption
- Prices going up
- Crime
- Traffic
- 2020
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Corruption
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That is what all politicians acknowledge. There is corruption in Malaysia. Mahathir was talking about corruption. So was Badawi.
Badawi became prime minister. That was about the first thing he said. I’m going to fight corruption. The whole of Malaysia applauded him.
Three years later. Badawi was talking about corruption again. This time he was telling us that corruption would go on for years to come.
Why? Don’t politicians want to stop corruption? Don’t they want to cut off their source of income? It is easy to stop corruption.
If we want we can stop corruption right away. We can make sure that corruption will not go on for years to come. We will be without corruption.
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Prices going up
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All the time the prices go up. Government should do something about the prices going up. Prices should stay the same.
Is government doing something about the prices? Is government making sure they stay the same? No. That doesn’t bring money. Forget it.
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Crime
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Crime is going up. Every year there is more crime. No. They don’t talk about crime. Don’t talk about crime. To make it look as if there is no crime.
The government is doing something about crime. The government is what they call “fighting crime”. Every year they put more police in the street.
Now that is good. That is what we stupid people think. More police is less crime. Oh yes. Government is taking good care.
One little problem. Every year we have more police and every year we have more crime. Does that mean more police is not less crime?
We have police. We have prosecution. And we have judges. They act against crime. But crime is going up all the time. Are they doing a lousy job?
Here is a question. How many criminals do the police arrest? How many percent of all criminals? One percent or less?
There is something terribly wrong with handling crime. Putting criminals in jail doesn’t work. Or is that a too high thinking?
I know how we can deal with crime. If we follow my plan then there is no more crime within five years. Don’t you think that is good?
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Traffic
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You don’t know? Traffic is bad. Everybody is making their own traffic rules. Nobody stops for a red traffic light. But there is more.
We have a lot of road bullies. And then all the hit and run accidents. Something should be done about traffic. This cannot go on.
The politicians. Should they do something about traffic? But they do not know. According to them traffic is fine.
When they are traveling by car. They have two policemen on motorbikes in front of their car. And two policemen behind their car.
The policemen make sure that the road is clear. Traffic is fine as far as the politicians are concerned. That is why traffic is so bad.
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2020
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Mahathir had a terrific idea. In 2020 Malaysia will be turned into a first world country. Yeah. He knew. In 2020 I’m dead.
Surprise. Badawi is also talking about 2020. So the politicians are pretty sure about turning Malaysia in a first world country.
Do we all want Malaysia to be a first world country in 2020? I don’t think it is a good idea. A lot of people will suffer.
Let’s look at a first world country. We don’t have to look very far. Let’s look at Singapore. Singapore is a first world country.
What about the prices in Singapore? Right. The prices in Singapore are much higher than in Malaysia. So the prices will rise in 2020.
Pity for all the people that were working in the third world days. Their salary was peanuts. They have only saved little in their EPF account.
They will find. When they retire. The money they get is just enough for one year. Maybe even for less than one year.
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I have mentioned five problems we have in Malaysia. What shall we do? Only concentrate on the 50 Most Influential Blogs in Malaysia?
Jos
I tend to agree with you, Gaman. Everybody wil have their own Top 50 Most Influential Blogs - in fact, save a few, who are enjoying lot sof hits, mos tof the others just have their hardcore following. Still, if we care to check them out - many of these blogs are interesting. In any case, although I only started blogigng since Ocotber 2008, and I will not make it into your List - i do beleive you have done a good job producing this list - at least you have started the ball rolling. So from now on, we can just keep working on it and improving it, so that it is truly a bloggers’ list!
wow, how can you gather all blogs?
i just have to visit this post to know malaysian blogs.
thanks.
Love the variey of posts here. Blogs with quality content is key to influence.
Nice to know more about most popular and influential blogs from Malaysia.As a Publisher of online horology journal “horozima” I use Google analytics to monitor my weblog performance.Exited to say that I have some followers from Malaysia too.
My technorati rank used to be less than 500 but due to the expired authority links, it soared down to 12,547.
you forgot tun dr.mahathir blog in the list…when he first started the blog traffic was 60,000 right away. but i forgot the link already
you have forgotten Tun Dr.Mahathir blog here: http://chedet.co.cc/chedetblog/
Tun hadn’t created his blog yet when I came up with the list. But he will be in the next list definitely
Collecting Blogs
Para blogger yang dihormati,
Saya sekarang dalam proses menyenaraikan blog2 mengikut kategori masing-masing. Jika anda berminat untuk memaparkan blog anda disini sila tinggalkan maklumat berikut.
terima kasih, diatas sokongan.
I am currently collecting blogs from All Around Malaysia. If you are interested to be listed here, North Krai Latest Blog Headlines lists, kindly leave:
1. Your blog’s name.
2. Your blog’s url.
3. Your blog’s category.
Thanks for support.
Please rank my blog. Tqvm
hi,
a great post althrought it was two years ago, hopefully one days my blog (http://blog.ytechcity.com)will be listed at “50 most influential blogs in malaysia”
It appears that rumours that Raja Petra Kamaruddin is dead are true.
http://takemon.wordpress.com/
His recent departure from Malaysia appears to have been conveniently arranged to avoid something more sinister from reaching the public in an open court.
Gopal Raj Kumar
thanks for the list. it must have taken you a lon time to do that.
This post is old .
Nice post Gaman.sabahan.com still the on Top Rank for sure..
cool. I love to visit that all blog.
Wow, very informative list. I knew kennysia.com was the most visited blog in Malaysia. But didnt know that he was so far ahead.
Ty for the info. It easy for me to make the watch their backlink
nice blog you sharing with us.keep it up man..
anywhere thanks for the good sharing…i never knew dis thing before. Good effort.tq
are these top 50 bloggers in malaysia for reals? Wow! Great. Hoping my geekylocker tech blog to get listed too, one day!
Tun hadn’t created his blog yet when I came up with the list.
kennysia’s is always my favourite.