Vox Bikol Online Now Among Top Websites

When first launched a little over a year ago, Vox Bikol Online had an initial Alexa rank of 17,000,000. Alexa is a known web information company which ranks websites according to their reach,  "traffic" or number of visits and hits by visitors.

Vox Bikol Online's rank and reach in the Internet have dramatically risen in recent months. Vox Bikol Online (voxbikol.com) has recently breached the 100,000^th rank, a requisite for Alexa to give the site more detailed performance monitoring. It's one-month Alexa rank is 58,431^st.

Readership comes from 145 countries/territories, with most site visitors coming from the Philippines, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, India, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Singapore, Qatar, Germany, Japan, Pakistan,  Malaysia, New Zealand, France, Italy, China and Hongkong.

Over the past five months, web site visitors range from 26,484 to 84,401 visits/month and page views range from 236,844 to 672,625 pages/month. On the average, 4.91 to 15.77 pages are viewed per visit in the same period. This data comes from internal monitoring by the web hosting company and does not include site access by robots, worms, or replies with special HTTP status codes.

Worldwide, Vox Bikol Online's most recent statistics compares closely to that of Zenit News Agency (42,177^th), Business Mirror(108,248 ^th), Manila Standard Today(54,618 ^th), Business World(96,951^th) and Malaya(92,196^th).

Among Filipino sites, Vox Bikol Online is ranked 136^th, way ahead of any Official Government Web Site (National Government Official Site---www.gov.ph, PIA, PNA, DOT, DTI, DOH, PRC, Philhealth, BIR), City of Manila (1,164,617^th), Makati City(1,280,891^th), Cebu City(1,107,967^th), Davao City(564,193^rd), Iloilo City(2,716,433^rd) and Bacolod City(22,303,233^rd).

It also has wider reach and higher rank than many high-profile privately maintained web sites, like Meralco, PLDT, Wow Philippines, Ticket Net, Mozcom, DZMM, Manny Villar Official Web Site (the top site among Philippine politicians), Boracay.com, Cebu Online, Cebu Central, Cebu Live, Global Pinoy, Nestle Philippines, IBON Foundation, Buy and Sell Philippines(194,047^th), PBA Online, UPIANS, Sarah Geronimo Official Site, Jobs City, Sun Cellular(150,651^st), Ateneo de Manila University(284,952^nd) and Jollibee(185,765^th).

Among Philippine news sources, it ranks higher than The Daily Tribune(232,235^th), UCAN, Visayan Daily Star(457,167^th), CBCP News(1,207,211^th), Bulatlat.com(232,055^th), NewsBreak(394,822^nd), Philippine News(640,890^th) and Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism(205,193^dr),

Not surprisingly, among Bicol web sites, Vox Bikol Online is on top of the list. Erstwhile top Bicol web sites now rank far below it, including Naga City Official Web Site(375,495^th), Camarines Sur Official Web Site(1,480,553^rd), CWC Site(1,158,438^th), Albay Official Web Site(2,052,427^th), Catanduanes Tribune, Bicol Mail (1,905,491^th) and Mike Padua's typhoon monitoring site.

Many technical factors contribute to Vox Bikol's success in the Web. First and foremost of these is a solid framework that revolves around Php, MySQL, jquery and browser-friendly CSS. Equally important, the Vox Bikol web site conforms strictly to W3C Standards. It also helps that the site is hosted by a very reliable US-based company.

Beyond the technical assets, other important contributions come from diligent site maintenance, active Search Engine Optimization (SEO) campaigns, and regular fresh and highly-readable content input.