Frequently Asked Questions
Blog-Indonesia collects blogs related to Indonesia, and presents them either chronologically or categorically.
To help Indonesian bloggers and Indonesia-related blogs gain more readerships, and to help people in finding blogs related to Indonesia.
Yes, as long as the blog is written by Indonesian, or if not, writes about Indonesia.
Click "Submit Blog" on the menubar, and enter the necessary information.
Your blog has to have RSS facility in order to be listed.
Your blog has to have RSS facility in order to be listed.
Your blog is on queue. Please be patient.
Blog Indonesia will try to initiate contact to your blog's RSS. Once the contact is successful, your blog will be automatically listed.
Blog Indonesia will try to initiate contact to your blog's RSS. Once the contact is successful, your blog will be automatically listed.
Make sure your blog has RSS/Atom Feed
Check the link to your feed. Make sure it exists.
How?
If you create your blog with blogger.com, it will automatically create RSSAtom feed for your blog at http://your-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default .
If you create your blog with wordpress, your link will be http://your-blog.wordpress.com/feed.
With Multiply, your feed will be http://your-blog.multiply.com/feed.rss.
It can happen that when you change your blog template, you accidentally erase the link to your blog's feed. So make sure by trying the link to your feed on the browser and see whether it exists or not. If you get a message of 'Page Not Found' or other error messages, then you have a problem with your feed and blog-indonesia.com will be unable to contact your blog to read its content.
If the feed exists, make sure it is valid
It happens that even your blog has feed, the feed is not valid. Invalid feed cannot be read by us and we will be unable to get any data from your blog.
To check whether your feed is valid or not, use http://feedvalidator.org.
If we cannot read your blog's feed, your blog cannot be included in the list.
Blog-Indonesia.com lists blogs written by Indonesians, or blogs writing about Indonesia.
If your blog is written in Bahasa, there is no problem for us to determine that your blog fits the condition above. Same goes if you write in English and your topic is about Indonesia. However, there are cases where the blog is written in english and the topic is not about Indonesia. In this case we cannot process your blog automatically because we have to manually find out whether you are Indonesians or not. If your blog gives no 'clue', then there is no way for us to know, and this will make your blog stays in the queue for a long period of time.
Your blog contains less than 5 posts.
Or, worse, contains only 'hello world' post.
If this is the case, your blog will automatically be deleted from the queue.
Make sure you have more than 5 posts on 5 different dates before you even submit your blog.
During registration, did you type the link to your blog correctly?
Believe it or not, this happens quite frequently. Make sure you type the link correctly or blog-indonesia will never be able to contact your blog.
Check the link to your feed. Make sure it exists.
How?
If you create your blog with blogger.com, it will automatically create RSSAtom feed for your blog at http://your-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default .
If you create your blog with wordpress, your link will be http://your-blog.wordpress.com/feed.
With Multiply, your feed will be http://your-blog.multiply.com/feed.rss.
It can happen that when you change your blog template, you accidentally erase the link to your blog's feed. So make sure by trying the link to your feed on the browser and see whether it exists or not. If you get a message of 'Page Not Found' or other error messages, then you have a problem with your feed and blog-indonesia.com will be unable to contact your blog to read its content.
If the feed exists, make sure it is valid
It happens that even your blog has feed, the feed is not valid. Invalid feed cannot be read by us and we will be unable to get any data from your blog.
To check whether your feed is valid or not, use http://feedvalidator.org.
If we cannot read your blog's feed, your blog cannot be included in the list.
Blog-Indonesia.com lists blogs written by Indonesians, or blogs writing about Indonesia.
If your blog is written in Bahasa, there is no problem for us to determine that your blog fits the condition above. Same goes if you write in English and your topic is about Indonesia. However, there are cases where the blog is written in english and the topic is not about Indonesia. In this case we cannot process your blog automatically because we have to manually find out whether you are Indonesians or not. If your blog gives no 'clue', then there is no way for us to know, and this will make your blog stays in the queue for a long period of time.
Your blog contains less than 5 posts.
Or, worse, contains only 'hello world' post.
If this is the case, your blog will automatically be deleted from the queue.
Make sure you have more than 5 posts on 5 different dates before you even submit your blog.
During registration, did you type the link to your blog correctly?
Believe it or not, this happens quite frequently. Make sure you type the link correctly or blog-indonesia will never be able to contact your blog.
Sorry, no. Please make sure the blog belongs to you. If the blog is not yours, simply let the owner know about this site and he/she can then register on his/her own.
The list is refreshed automatically every 1 hour.
This however does not mean your posts will be listed here in within 1 hour. Other factors such as non-responding RSS or overload on our sites may delay the update. Please be patient.
This however does not mean your posts will be listed here in within 1 hour. Other factors such as non-responding RSS or overload on our sites may delay the update. Please be patient.
Yes, as long as the RSS link remains the same, any changes you did on your blog will reflect on the list in Blog Indonesia.
Please wait until the next update. (Update is run hourly). Your post will be gone automatically.
However, if your posting is already archived, it will not be automatically deleted.
Your post in the archive will become deadlink and deadlinks will be automatically deleted periodically.
However, if your posting is already archived, it will not be automatically deleted.
Your post in the archive will become deadlink and deadlinks will be automatically deleted periodically.
Sure, let us know here. Write the link to your blog, the existing category, and the category you think is more appropriate.
Most active blog is determined by the number of new entry published in the past 24 hours.
If there are more than one bloggers with the same number of posting, blogger with the most recent post will rank higher.
If there are more than one bloggers with the same number of posting, blogger with the most recent post will rank higher.
If there is no new entry in the past 30 days, your blog's status will be automatically set to "not active", and blog-indonesia will stop reading your RSS feed.
Blog-Indonesia will monitor your blog from time to time, and if you post a new entry your status will be set back to active and blog-indonesia will automatically read your RSS feed.
Blog-Indonesia will monitor your blog from time to time, and if you post a new entry your status will be set back to active and blog-indonesia will automatically read your RSS feed.
We are not perfect, and mistakes do happen. If you found such blog, please let us know.
10 blogs with the most entries during the past 30 days will automatically be listed.
Popularity is calculated based on number of click by the visitors when visiting the blog through blog-indonesia.
The number of clicks in the past 30 days is counted and the 10 blogs with highest number of clicks will be listed.
The number of clicks in the past 30 days is counted and the 10 blogs with highest number of clicks will be listed.
This site's navigation is made in two languages to make it easy for you. Your language choice is then stored in a cookie, to make sure you do not have to keep selecting your preferred language everytime you visit this site. If you prefer, you can still use this site even with your cookie deactivated. This however will cause some function such as language selection and search to stop working.
Popularity is calculated based on number of click by the visitors when visiting the blog through blog-indonesia.
Number of click for the past 30 days is calculated and the more number of clicks received, the higher the rank.
If there are 2 or more blogs with equal number of clicks, the blog who received the most recent visit will get higher rank.
The same method applies for top 20 Popular this Month (using data of the past 30 days) and top 20 popular today (using data of the past 24 hours).
Please remember that this DOES NOT reflect blog's popularity in general. Many blogs are widely popular although do not receive many visits through blog-indonesia.
Number of click for the past 30 days is calculated and the more number of clicks received, the higher the rank.
If there are 2 or more blogs with equal number of clicks, the blog who received the most recent visit will get higher rank.
The same method applies for top 20 Popular this Month (using data of the past 30 days) and top 20 popular today (using data of the past 24 hours).
Please remember that this DOES NOT reflect blog's popularity in general. Many blogs are widely popular although do not receive many visits through blog-indonesia.
We don't like censorships as much as you do. We value the freedom in blogging. However, freedom can be abused, and we certainly don't want blog-indonesia to be used for illegal or offensive activities.
Since we cannot monitor this site 24/7, we rely on your help to let us know when you find such topic, by clicking the flag.
This way, it is you -- as a member of the Indonesian blog community -- who decides wether a topic is offensive or not. We value your input and based on the flags you raised we will examine the topic in question and determine the necessary action.
Since we cannot monitor this site 24/7, we rely on your help to let us know when you find such topic, by clicking the flag.
This way, it is you -- as a member of the Indonesian blog community -- who decides wether a topic is offensive or not. We value your input and based on the flags you raised we will examine the topic in question and determine the necessary action.
Not much. This is a labour of love, and this site can thrive due to the generosity of the programmers who built it. They maintain this site without receiving any financial returns.
We of course don't intend to rely on donation forever. Therefore we use the extra space for ad.
We would like this website to continuously serve you for free. Income from ad -- no matter how little -- helps.
We of course don't intend to rely on donation forever. Therefore we use the extra space for ad.
We would like this website to continuously serve you for free. Income from ad -- no matter how little -- helps.
Everytime visitors click the links in blog-indonesia to visit your blog, the click is recorded. Blog-Indonesia also implements an algorithm to ensure no visitor can click a link excessively only for the sole purpose of artificially increasing the number of visits. With this algorithm, one visitor will be counted as one click, even if the visitors click the link repeatedly.
Send an email to webmaster at blog-indonesia.com using the email address you used when you registered your blog. On the email subject please write "Remove" followed by your blog's url . In some cases we may send an email to verify before we remove your blog. Please be patient, it may take a few days before all caches related to your blog is cleared.
