Hhmm, how do i start this? i found out that there is a
CHEATER in
Topblogs.com.ph which is the 'official' ranking list of Pinoy bloggers, and i feel sorry for the blogger, why did he do it? why did he put the ranking codes in 3 different blogs which is intended only for one? actually he's already a 'friend' of mine, i always visit his blog for some SEO tips, he also visit me sometimes he even commented on some of my post.
some evidences i got from SOCO:
Why did i post this? Sourgraping? Bitter? Nah!! infact my blog is the #2 overall last week [next to Starmo] and #1 in my category! I think this can help improve the TopBlogs.com.ph ranking system, they even said:
"Our topsites have tracked over 250,000,000 unique visitors, and we have developed some advanced anti-cheating methods to keep the riff-raff out."
sorry for being b*tchy but where is the advanced anti-cheating methods that they're saying, What if the blogger not just put it on 3 blogs, What if he put it in every blog that he handle, What if all of the blogs in the ranking does the same thing? What if Spider-Man joined the Fantastic Four? What if the Hulk had the brain of Bruce Banner? What if someone else besides Spider-Man had been bitten by the radioactive spider? What if Jane Foster had found the hammer of Thor?
LOL! :P
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65 Comments on "TopBlogs.com.ph [Top Blogs Philippines] Scandal!"
>>> in Topblogs.com.ph which
>>> is the 'official' ranking
>>> list of Pinoy bloggers
official na po ba? meron din kseng ratified.org kaya baka nde pa official. unless nahuhuli lang ako sa balita hehe.
yun lang po muna ang comment ko dito. yung tungkol sa issue, siguro yung company na nagmmaintain ng topblogs ang makakasagot dyan ;) may kilala akong empleyado don dati pero nde ko sure kung empleyado pa sya don. sigurado aasikasihin naman nila tong ni-raise mong issue.
sana nga maliwanagan na to bago pa lumala :) para sa ikabubuti ng lahat ;)
@Julia... they are not doing anything yet because probably, they are busy manually fighting spam sign-ups? hehe. :)
obviously, their advanced anti-cheating mechanism is not that advanced.
mukhang kilala ko kung kanino yang codes na yan. teka at makausap nga.
@dYu:
no i think not official, that's why i put a (') apostrophe in it
@marhgil:
they should not say that they have this advanced anti-cheating methods
and kilala nga natin
ang galing mo nmn ginawa mong katatawanan ung isang serious situation! pa'nong nasali si spiderman dito?
pota may soco soco ka pang nalalaman
Buti pa yun nakita ni Julia e yung dayaan dito sa Entertainment Blog of the Month Awards di nya nakikita
Hindi accurate ang RATIFIED, di naman nila napapakita yung no. of feedburner subscribers sa lahat ng blogs e
@Anonymous1:
natawa ka ba? ako hindi jeje! joke joke!
Anonymous2:
soco? jeje
@Anonymous3:
dayaan? pa'nong dayaan any evidence, bitter ampalaya ba ang lunch mo kanina ?? LOL
@Anonymous4:
before nila ipakita ung feedburner subscription mo, u should tell them kung ano ung URL ng feed mo. ganyan din ako dati, ang ginawa ko nag fill up uli ako ng form sa website ng ratified.org tapos the next day ayun, nakaindicate na :)
hehehehe... julia dami pa pala me nalagyan... pero ok na... mga 10+ blogs na mino monitor ko sa whos.amung.us.. :P pero ok na natanggal ko na ata lahat ng topblogs code.. tsk tsk tsk...
tsk tsk tsk.. jehz talaga oh.. naging celebrity kna ulit... blackhat seo king eheh :P
although this is also a lapse on pinoytopblog's anti cheating. They should be able to detect if the code is used on multiple domains.
@:Jehzeel Laurente:
ok lng po yun, grabe ka huh! dami mo yata iniisip eh! jeje ;)
@Silkenhut:
no! topblogs.com.ph call that:
"advanced anti-cheating methods"
LOL!
what? top 3 post ko na 'to? talo pa ang ira eigenmann scandal. jeje :P
Statistics are relative. Neither TopBlogs.com.ph nor Ratified are "official" listings of the Philippine top blogs.
u know what? i don't believe that he "misplaced" the tracking codes? in 10 different blogs? that's so lame!
makikita mo nmn ung codes eh, bago mo ipublished un, tapos sa 10 different blog pa?
isa pa sabi niya sa amung.us codes un? 10 blogs isang amung.us? para saan? puede ba yun?
imposible! sinong niloloko mo jehzlau laurente, kaya pala binura ng google ung blogspot mo, and blackhat seo talaga ang gamit mo.
naglalagay ka ng mga invisible text sa mga blogs na hawak mo. huli na kita dati.
haha. karma yan. cheater, nabura ung blogspot mo, palagi pang down ung isang blog mo.
i wonder kung ano ano pang tinatago mo. mahuhuli ka rin, akala mo no?
e pa'no kung hindi 'to napansin, tuloy tuloy lang? would you believe 10 blogs versus 1? eh meron ka nmng ibang blog sa topblogs.com tapos eto lang ung namali parang unbelievable naman yata.
sa blog owner please don't delete this comment, dahil TOTOO TO!
@anonymous - hehehe.. bitter si anonymous... gawa ka din sayo :P
ano naman gagawin ko doon sa to blogs code wala namang pera yun :P sana kung tataas earnings ko :P
at para sa whos.amung.us code, paki mo if lagyan ko lahat ng blogs ko ng whos.amung.us code.. di naman bawal yun.. hihihi..
P.S.: nag lagay pa ako sa ibang blogs pero hindi under my name.. for experiment naman.. bwahahaha!
ang saya ng blogosphere! :)
ay w8...
@anonymous - sinadya ko pala ilagay yun,... para makakuha ng topblogs check :)
Happy april fool's day ^__~
@jehzeel laurente - putang ina ka jehzeel laurente ang daya daya mo! ma click bomb nga kita para ma ban ka sa adsense..
hahahaha! kawawa ka! putang ina ka!
sana e ban ka din ng topblogs.com.ph huling huli ka na!
@anonymous - oo nga... patay... natatakot akong ma ban sa top blogs.. huhuhuuhu...
click bomb? wag baka ma ban ako... maawa ka naman.. hehe...
:P
did Entrophia released any statement already about this issue? i think it would also be nice to see some comments from them about it.
let's just learn from this issue and move forward ;) for the betterment of our blogosphere :)
keep on blogging!
Down with Jehzreel Laurante Black Hat SEO King! Just kidding Jehz.
I agree with Silkenhut, dapat kayang imonitor ng PinoyTopBlogs.ph yan kung sabi nila advanced ang kanilang anti-cheating system.
Oh, and regarding the official toplist of the Pinoy blogosphere, there is no such thing.
@Anonymous:
kung san ka masaya
@Jehzeel Laurente:
ano ba yan star ka na ulit! inggit ako jeje ;)
@Anonymous:
ooopps! kailangan ba talaga nagmumura? and u said
"sana e ban ka din ng topblogs.com.ph huling huli ka na!"
bakit na ban ka na ba? LOL
@dYu:
wala pa pong statement ang Entrophia eh, mas busy pa yata silang nakikipag debate sa basapa.com at macuha.com pinagtatanggol pa ung system nila na may advance anti cheating method! ;)
@KarloPinoyBlogero:
ya, di pa ako sigurado kung official list sia ng pinoy blogosphere kaya i put a apostrophe in it (')
pero iba pa din ang topblogs.com.ph kase po galing sa enthropia and minamanage dati ni kuya abe, and "halos" lahat ng pinoy blogs kasali
@ 88.245.16.85,
don't spam my chatbox huh? imagine you put 26 f uck you? wow ansipag mo nmn! ba't di ka kaya na lng magblog? bakit sa chatbox mo wlang nag iiwan ng message no?
wala pa po bang reply ang mga kinauukulan tungkol sa isyu?
http://topblogexperiment.890m.com
http://www.topblogs.com.ph/track_3763.gif
Hi, i also tried this experiment. i added some top blog codes while commenting on other websites. I just hide the code.. and pooof! it works!
topblogs should fix this serious hole...
@Top Blog Experiment:
walang pang reply, fyi i contacted them 2 times.
@Glenn:
naku ingat kau jan sa experiment na yan, baka ma ban kau, remember they have advance anti cheating method! ;)
@ ♥·´`·.¸.»♥ - let's see how "advance" they are. If I'm banned, I have nothing to lose :)
Let them trace the codes in some known sites that I have commented and inserted the code. Btw, I have also used other codes like starmo and codamon (as what I've observed, they gained a lot of pageviews from those codes), I copied their code and inserted it to other sites that accepts HTML, so that it will not be obvious, I'm planning to use your code also... :)
In this way, they can furthermore improve their advanced anti-cheating myth. Let's see if they can...
@owner of this site - hindi pa! gusto ko lang siya ma ban! na iinis ako sa kanya! FUCK HIM! FUCK JEHZLAU!
@julia - hehehe.. gawa ka din ng ganito.. tapos kunwari di mo alam.. para may mag blog about sayo.. hmmmmm.. pero mahirap.. swerte lang talaga ako kasi napansin mo yung codes.. kaya na blog mo ako.. haha :D saya saya! ;)
@anonymous - ahmmmmmmm... :) *speechless*
@Glenn:
what? u really did that?
@:Anonymous:
sige go!
@Jehzeel Laurente:
ibig sabihin sinadya mo talaga? kunwari di mo alam? i don't think that's fair! ;(
mukhang di 'to pinapansin ng enthropia kahit napublished na sa pinoyblogosphere.com at technogra.ph di katulad dati pag may napublished na article regarding them (ex: macuha.com at basapa.com) todo depensa kaagad sila. siguro dahil blogspot lang ako *drama mode*
sayang nmn ung nasimulan ni kuya abe, and tama mas reliable ung ratified.org kesa dito buti nalang #43 ako dun ;)
@julia - i copied the entire code including whos.amung.us, pero I don't intend to cheat kasi I assumed na the code is useless, if it works, then it's topblog's problem to fix it. It works nga.. so dapat ayusin to ng topblogs para di abusuhin :)
hehehe.. happy april fool's day ;)
masaya talaga pag april fool's ^__^
so there wasn't any intention to cheat? so be it.
the more important matter now is to make sure that their backend only counts the hits that are referred by the registered URL for a particular blog. they should disregard and invalidate hits coming from sites other than the registered site. in short, they should be able to ignore workarounds such as what jehzeel laurente did.
And they should be able to AUTOMATICALLY detect and check that the stats seen on "http://www.topblogs.com.ph/details/3763.html" are not actual hits coming from "http://topblogexperiment.890m.com" but are from other sites.
THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT. I HOPE THEY WILL NOT BAN THIS BLOG UNTIL THEY ARE ALREADY ABLE TO FIX THE PROBLEM BEING EXPERIMENTED.
http://www.topblogs.com.ph/track_3763.gif
I dare you to participate with this experiment and put my topblog code on your blogs. THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT TO HELP THEM IMPROVE THEIR BACKEND.
@top blog experiment - I'm also doing that sort of experiment. I hope this can improve topblogs' ranking system...
the first code for the experiment was deleted/suspended. that simply means that there's no long term resolution yet in place. if there is, there shouldn't be any need to delete/suspend it coz it should have been handled by the backend. but since there's none yet, their workaround is just to keep on deleting it. but the deleted/suspended site can still be re-registered though.
here's the new code:
http://www.topblogs.com.ph/track_3784.gif
http://topblogexperiment.890m.com
@Jehzeel Laurente:
ahh... ok
@Top Blog Experiment and Glenn:
looks like Jehz has been suspended or banned..
response by ahmed of topblogs.com.ph in basapa.com:
"The system is automated - it references traffic history and referrals from the previous week to assuage any cheaters.
As it picks up inconsistencies in the system it flags it for us to take a deeper look Expecting it to go around and harvest spam data on every single blog is not happening"
&
"I have to ask - where were you when Abe was running the system? How come there were no sensationalist posts when he was running it? We *wrote* the script he was using to run the site - this is a far more advanced one.
Only a few bloggers are losing trust and faith. We are tracking more traffic and have more blogs signed up *every* day. We’ve sent out almost 11,000 hits to our joined sites - let me know how many other PH sites can claim this?
An automated system learns over time what is normal and what isn’t. It gets smarter over the days as it notices a sudden odd upsurge in traffic. Using a week of traffic is not how it works. We can manually take care of the abusers (and I’ve deleted over 40 blogs myself) until the automated system does its job."
pinoyblogosphere answers:
"@ahmed,
where were we before? we’re just here. maybe during those times nobody noticed such activities or attempts to cheat. just maybe.
are you now questioning us why we didn’t notice that before? i honestly don’t know why. maybe because it’s only now that somebody noticed it. maybe because it’s just now that there are doubts and unanswered questions and distrust by FEW as you call it.
how come there were no sensationalist posts before? SAME answer. maybe because it’s just NOW that a FEW are speaking out. just maybe.
we aren’t questioning that what you have now is a more advance version. what we’re trying to point out is that there was something done that affects the reliability of the results of the system. and what we’re asking is for you guys to assure us that you WILL DO something about it. please understand. WE’RE HERE TO HELP YOU GUYS. DON’T TAKE THIS AGAINST YOU. We’re with you in making sure that it would be successful. But please also help us clarify the issues being raised.
it’s good that you acknowledge that a FEW are already losing trust & faith. are you gonna wait until the FEW becomes MANY? i hope not. now that you already know that a FEW are speaking out, what are you gonna do about it? don’t you guys have an official statement to persuade the FEW that you’ll be doing something and that they don’t have to worry co’z you’re already working on it? nothing like that? will you just let the FEW opt out of the system and ignore their grievances? WILL YOU JUST WAIT THAT THE FEW BECOME MANY?
nobody is claiming anything, ahmed. we know you’re sending hits to pinoy blogs. thank you for that. BUT the issue here is WHAT are you gonna do to address the issue being raised? we also want topblogs to succeed that’s why we’re helping and raising this issue. we want it to improve. so PLEASE DO SOMETHING or at least let us know that YOU WILL BE DOING SOMETHING in the near future. is that too much to ask?
so are you aware about the issue raised by julia? this issue needs to be addressed but until now you guys haven’t replied to it yet. it’s ok if you guys won’t be doing anything about it YET. but at the very least you should acknowledge that you are aware of it. are you? if you’re already aware, are you JUST WAITING for the system to automatically detect it and automatically do something about it? if so then we should just wait for the system to AUTO cleanup the stats.
instead of praising the advance version, just do something about the issues raised ;)
again, please don’t take this against topblogs. we are trying to help."
technogra.ph said
"Based on the code Julia Aquino published (pictured above), we’ve determined that one of the sites she featured was conradmiguel.com, currently #18 on TopBlogs Philippines."
@top blogs experiment... ok, I joined your experiment. let's just see if they are really counting impressions from unregistered domains. you'll be number 1 or 2 in your category by tomorrow if they count my blog's impression of 2K+ per day. i'll delete the code after 24 hours. :D
@marhgil:
sali mo kaya yung codes ko? joke! baka ma banned ako, pero regarding sa hits out na sinesend nila eh last week 3% of my traffic came from topblogs.com.ph pero mas malaki ang pinoy-topsites.com w/c send me more (12%)according to mapstats
so di nila dapat pagmalaki yun.
@Julia... buti, di ka nila sinabihan ng, You're so funny, you insult our technology and you're still using our service. hahaha. kaya ako umalis eh, bawal pala magcriticize. :D
I'm also doing this on my blog. I was banned, then I can register again. Hahaha!
Their code seems to work on all blogs including forum posts. I tried to post in my DP account with hidden HTML, and it works. :)
Poor topblogs.com.ph. Hoping that they can fix it.
@marhgil... i guess your hits are not being counted. maybe because of the hidden attribue? or maybe because your blog is not registered? not sure though. i'm using width & height attributes of the img tag set to zero at my experiment and it's working. can we try the zero width/hight attribute at your blog instead of using hidden? just for 24 hours if you will. thank you.
@marhgil:
haha! sayang kase ung 3% eh.
@julia... nasa PBS mailing list na si andre(pres. ng entrophia). baka may mga gusto kang itanong, liwanagin o isuggest sa kanya? :)
@top blog experiment - hidden attribute works for me.. hehehe :)
Wow, si jehz, pala ang saralin... hehehe friends naman lahat dito... just promoting fair! fair ba yun? hehehe hayaan mo julia kaw parin naman reyna ng topblog.ph
hi ms. julia! ang galing naman..
pwede bang magpa-investigate sa'yo?
Dark Knight
www.BlueMumble.com
@dYu:
itanong? hmmm, pakitanong nmn kung puede ba ung 1 blog in 2 categories like "our awesome planet" & pbs did?
ay sau pla un, or experiment lang?
@anonymous:
pa'no ba yang hidden attribute na yan?
@Juler:
hi ulit! if u would believe hindi nmn ung pagiging #1 ang habol ko d2, dahil starmo ang tunay na #1 tapos di pa sumasali si bryanboy pati si kuya rickey ng rickey.org. tapos napansin ko, umalis na si kuya abe sa ranking, which i lastly seen #4 last week.
sana di galit si jehz sakin, pero sa IM niya sa kin mukha namang hindi.
i just notice it na pa'no siyang nasa top eh down ung blog niya that time, so there's something weird and i want to tell the truth hindi para manira or pull down jehz
& one more thing, topblogs.com.ph is not your ordinary topsite, so dapat talaga eh merong advanced anti-cheating methods like what they are bragging
i revealed this to make their system better, that's it. i won't get anything from it except the 3% traffic they are giving me, which are generally bloggers themselves meaning traffic from them is useless, earning wise because bloggers already know what is an ad and what is not.
@Dark Knight:
haha! di ako si Mike Enriquez! LOL ;)
update
i just already received an email from entrophia saying:
"He has been removed."
ngaun ko lng napansin na may email na pala npunta kase sa spam folder.
and they also has a comment on pbs saying:
Andre Marcelo-Tanner:
"We’ll have a statement out soon, no worries :) too much chismis."
too much chismis? this is a fact that your system can be manipulated, i have a proof. ;) peace!
@julia... oo testing lang yun. nakita ko kse na dalawa yung "Awesome Planet". kaya yun naki-gaya. sinubukan kong ilagay din yung PinoyBlogoSphere.com sa "None - Uncategorized". na-curious lang *lol*
nasend ko na pala yung tanong. naka-cc ka don ;) wait natin sagot nila kung sasagutin nila.
ala ka pa pala don sa PBS mailing list (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/pinoyblogosphere/). ayaw mong makatanggap ng sangkatutak na emails noh. ayaw mo bang ma-spam? hehe.
@dYu:
a ganun ba ako rin ginaya ko rin, din nmn siguro ako tatanggalin kase 3 tayo eh, LOL
;)
aba may link pala si karlo ng pinoyblogero.com d2, thanks karlo!
looks like somebody is using julia's code!
it doesn't really matter anymore even if everybody's using everyone's code. who cares? not even those who maintains topblogs.com.ph cares, do they? what do you think?
the more important matter now is to make sure that their backend only counts the hits that are referred by the registered URL for a particular blog. they should disregard and invalidate hits coming from sites other than the registered site. in short, they should be able to ignore workarounds such as what jehzeel laurente did initially which is now being done on several other blogs. who knows who's doing what nowadays. something has to be done with the system to handle the problem at hand.
technogra.ph's message:
"Based on the code Julia Aquino published (pictured above), we’ve determined that one of the sites she featured was conradmiguel.com, currently #18 on TopBlogs Philippines."
to technogra.ph:
conradmiguel.com? Pwede po ba na 'wag idamay ang inosente. Ang galing mo naman maganalyze ano?
No screenshot above is the source code of conradmiguel.com. My blog is neatly coded; XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid pa yun (http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://conradmiguel.com).
Nagkataon lang na may link ako sa blog na 'yan; nagpatulong kasi ako magSEO ng isang keyword.
sumagot na si andre. naka-post sa blog ni abe yung official statement nila:
TopBlogs Philippines Update
http://www.yugatech.com/blog/pinoy-bloggers/topblogs-philippines-update/
@:anonymous:
siguro nga meron, di ko basta basta matatalo ung starmometer.com 'no
@Top Blog Experiment:
oo nga parang wala silang paki eh, these past few days nagdown ung website nila, kala ko sinara na.
@Mikko:
oo, wala kang kinalaman. :)
@:Sagot nila:
eto ung sabi nila:
"In the mean time, if you do see someone cheating, please do not hesitate to contact us."
in short wala pa rin silang advanced anti-cheating methods to keep the riff-raff out. nye. in the mean time. joke3
taray mo julia!!!
go girl!
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wow, pede pala yun! hahaha.
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yung cheating, oo! hahaha peace
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