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Australian Blogs – Hosting and Search Review

February 11, 2007 · 14 Comments

Nearly a month ago I wrote about Blogging in Australia basically because I’m interested in local Australian content.

I thought I’d revisit that post in a more structured and in depth way. To do that effectively, we need to separate Australian Blogging into two categories – Australian blog hosts and Australian blog search engines or directories.

Continued at Australian Blogs – Hosting and Search Review

Categories: Australia · Australian Blogs · Australian Websites · blogging · blogsearch

14 responses so far ↓

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Jon Y // February 11, 2007 at 10:52 pm

Hey Meg,

Thanks for the analysis – I should be more diligent in doing this myself (there was a time when I used to surf the awstats everyday during lunch…heheh)

Just one point, AustralianBlogs accepts repeat submissions so as to reflect the evolving nature of one’s blogs (it’s the spam that we object to). No real dramas.

Thanks again for the plug. We’re definitely at the low-tech end of the blogosphere
Meg // February 11, 2007 at 11:05 pm

Hi Jon

Cool about the repeat submissions – I might revise mine It was more a warning to be prepared to GIRFT, rather than just fire off the submission on a whim.

BTW, I’d say “emerging” rather than “low-tech And you have an impressive PR, which is nothing to sneeze at.

Great to see an Aussie focus – keep at it!
James Farmer // February 12, 2007 at 11:28 am

Hey, I’ll happily be no.1 blog provider in Aus

Although strictly, as the majority of my clients are overseas, my Alexa rank (amazon toolbar users) is always going to outstrip purely .com.au domains.

But having said that there are another 30K blogs on learnerblogs.org, eslblogs.org and uniblogs.org added to the 36K on edublogs.org… so maybe it balances out.

Thanks for the very interesting analysis.
Sueblimely // February 13, 2007 at 12:06 pm

Very useful information. Thanks from a fellow Aussie and blogging researcher. I will refer to this article on my site.
Meg // February 13, 2007 at 12:50 pm

Hi James & Sue

Many thanks for your comments & link to the article.

James – that sure is a lot of blogs – great stuff! Hope it keeps growing in Oz
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Gail Bousaleh // February 27, 2007 at 2:10 pm

A great “how to”, thanks.
Meg // February 27, 2007 at 2:59 pm

Hi Gail

Thanks for stopping by, and taking the time to leave a comment
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Local Hosting // June 4, 2007 at 8:29 am

This post is incredible. Must have taken a long to write.

I have bookmarked this thread. I’ve been asked about Australian hosting services before and a lot of these companies I have never even heard of. Thanks.