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Blog Traffic Heavier than EDSA Traffic this Holy Week
Sorry, folks! It seems that blog traffic this last Holy Week was too heavy that the headers and pictures of this site consumed the free bandwidth of Photobucket but at least the site is still accessible due to unlimited bandwidth of Google Blogger, and gratis at that
Tutubi went home to Quezon City on Holy Wednesday last week and avoided heavy traffic of EDSA northbound particularly the traffic prone Cubao area. He passed by his usual route going to Makati via Mandaluyong, San Juan then Araneta Avenue.
On Holy Thursday in going home to Paete, Laguna, he again encountered unecessary heavy traffic along Teresa, Rizal near Teresa Church and Teresa Public Market. No particular event, accident or activity, just a less than kilometer long stretch of Manila East Road manned by stupid policemen merely waving their hands commanding drivers to go but didn't bother to remove the obstacles blocking the road. Less than a kilometer and yet took more than 30 minutes to traverse. Traffic Police and local government of Teresa Rizal should be hanged were it not Holy Week.
This blog's visitors for Holy Week was simply overwhelming with people from all over looking for travel information on this blog (that earned a PR5 PageRank from Google, btw, some months ago.
Anyway, the pictures will resume to be displayed soon after this blog's bandwidth allocation get reset or Tutubi will edit the header to be less heavy and for the blog to load much faster.
We went to Pililia last Easter and passed through Teresa. Those road blocks really slowed down the traffic! Thankfully, the traffic wasn't as terrible as we were expecting.
On blog traffic, traffic this year seemed to be higher than previous year
chyng, yes, too many people looking for holy week vacation spots and pilgrimage sites :P
nina, i passed by Pililla again on my way back to QC...where did you go there? blog traffic is increasing since our posts are multiplying...advance happy annivblogsary to you! :P
Big congrats from Padmal. I am also a travel blog author and happy when i get a traffic spike like you had now and then. Keep on going this momentum will be permanent in the near future.
This blog's visitors for Holy Week was simply overwhelming with people from all over looking for travel information on this blog (that earned a PR5 PageRank from Google, btw, some months ago.
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