BESG weblog logs 200,000 visitors
Posted by BESG on 14 January 08, Monday
Contributed by YC
In July 2007, after two years of blogging, BESGroup’s blog logged 100,000 visitors. Now, exactly six months later, we have reached another milestone - 200,000 visitors.
A recent web-rating by an independent professional editor for weblog “blogged” rated this blog as ‘Very Good” and awarded it 8.3 out of 10.0 points (above). The editor used four criteria: 1. frequency of updates; 2. relevance of content; 3. site design; 4. writing style.
We have linked up with many overseas bird blogs. Many others have discovered us as shown below:
Based in the US, Birdfreak: The Bird Conservation Blog has been recommending us to birders all over the world (left). So have the Malaysia Bird Forum and thaibirding.com.
GlobalVoices, founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has also made reference to us. This is a research think-tank focused on the internet’s impact on society.
One of our posts was referenced in an article on the Common Myna that appeared in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,
And a Chinese blog based in Biijing literally re-posted chunks of our recent postings, images and all.
OrganicBurials.com makes special mention to our recent post on the Chestnut-bellied Malkoha.
On the local scene, Youth.SG, an online portal for the youth of Singapore, has linked up with BESG. So has Singapore Environmental Blogs.
The above are the new local links. Apologies for not mentioning the many other local links, so as not to make this post excessively long.
Once again BESG thanks one and all for support - photographers for sharing your bird behaviour images as well as permission to post your images, birders for sending your sightings and observations.
With your continued support, we await the coming of the half million hits.
Categories: Reports
Comment by Forest Ang
Made Monday, 14 of January , 2008 at 7:28 am
Congratulations!!
Comment by Birdfreak
Made Monday, 14 of January , 2008 at 8:05 am
Congratulations!! This blog is one of the most fascinating in the world and it is no surprise it has received high traffic.
Some day we’d love to visit Singapore and see some of the wonderful birds featured here!!
Comment by SK
Made Monday, 14 of January , 2008 at 9:03 am
Congratulations and well done! Your blog is a benchmark for all nature blogs in Singapore.
Comment by Joseph Lai
Made Monday, 14 of January , 2008 at 5:29 pm
BESG deserves all the accolades! Well done! I love this blog! It brings bird-watching from mere identification to the realm of natural history where no single observation - no matter how insignificant it may seem at first - has values just waiting to be pieced together. BESG does what science is supposed to do, and proved anyone with patience and passion, can contribute to it. So… here you are - everyone is a scientist in the making!
And that’s how twig by twig the nest is built! Well done, Prof Wee et al!
Chirpy Chirp Chirp,
Joseph Lai : )
Comment by Joseph Lai
Made Monday, 14 of January , 2008 at 5:30 pm
I am Joe Lai : )
Comment by YC
Made Wednesday, 16 of January , 2008 at 7:03 am
Appreciate all your continued support and thanks again…
Comment by Serene
Made Thursday, 17 of January , 2008 at 10:31 am
This is truely a very good nature blog that only a trained scientist is able to produce.
I am a scientist by training and I enjoy your blog very much. Keep it up!
Comment by YC
Made Thursday, 17 of January , 2008 at 10:51 am
Thanks for the compliment, Serene. I have only started looking at birds since 2005.
Comment by Amila Salgado
Made Thursday, 17 of January , 2008 at 12:14 pm
Why am I not surprised ?
Comment by Burung Sulawesi
Made Wednesday, 7 of May , 2008 at 11:30 am
Congratulation. BESG is one of my favorite blog.
