This document summarizes the results of the 2017 Top vBlog awards. It provides statistics on the number of blogs and voters each year since 2009. It then lists the top 25 blogs with their rank, change from the previous year, total points, number of votes, voting points, number of first place votes, number of 2016 posts, and Google Pagespeed points. The document explains the scoring process and introduces the new point modifiers for posts and Pagespeed scores. It concludes by announcing the category winners and a call for feedback to improve future events.
3. State of blogging today
Why do people do it?
Value of blogging?
How to be successful at blogging
What about book writing?
Other forms of communications
Value of vExpert program
5. History of Top vBlog
Year # blogs Voters
2009 20 350
2010 66 700
2011 115 860
2012 187 1200
2013 243 1300
2014 320 1400
2015 411 2200
2016 321 1600+
2017 273 1600+
2009 – 1st public voting
2010 – blogging gets popular
2011 – 1st results podcast
2012 – start of blog explosion
2014 – 1st live results show
2016 – 10 post minimum
2017 – add point modifiers
6. A word from our sponsor
Thank you again for helping make this
possible!
7. What’s new this year
New survey platform – QuestionPro
New scoring methods
New blogger giveaway
New categories
Duncan & Frank stepped down
10 post minimum in 2016 to be eligible
Same great sponsor
8. Some stats this year
1600+ votes, about same as last year
273 blogs compared to 321 blogs last year
62 new blogs this year
1 new blog (started in 2016) made the top 50
11 additional blogs made it to the top 50
8 blogs that made it into the top 25
4 new blogs in top 10 (one blog DNQ)
9 position changes in the top 10
9. Scoring process
People pick 12 favorite blogs then rank them
#1 vote = 12 points, #2 vote = 11 points,
down to a #12 vote = 1 point
2 new point modifiers this year:
# of posts in 2016 - 2 per post, 400 max
Google Pagespeed score – 200 possible * GPS %
Total point score = Voting points + post points
+ Pagespeed points
10. What is Pagespeed?
Analyze and optimize your site following
web best practices
Gtmetrix.com will benchmark your site
Scores with Yslow & Google Pagespeed
Follow recommendations to optimize
Images is #1 cause of slowness
Consider using caching server like
Cloudflare
39. Category winners
Favorite Female Blogger Favorite Storage Blog
Favorite Non-ENGLISH Blog Favorite Scripting Blog
Favorite NEW Blog Favorite Podcast
Favorite News/info website Favorite Independent blogger
vMiss (Melissa Palmer) Cormac Hogan
vInfrastructure Blog (Andrew Mauro) Virtually Ghetto (William Lam)
24x7 IT Connection (Theresa Miller) vBrownBag (Cody Bunch & Crew)
ESX Virtualization (Vladan Seget)The Register Virtualization News
40. Closing comments
Congrats to all the winners!
Keep on blogging, it’s a journey not a race
We’ll be back next year!
Send suggestions & feedback to
esiebert7625@yahoo.com