This post might turn out abit controversial but take note that the methods employed here are very simplistic. Anyway, I am sure most of us here who own a blog submits our feeds/posts to blog aggregators in the hope of getting more visitors to our site but how much are we getting in return in terms of Google's PageRank (PR)?

Well, if we look into Google's original PageRank algorithm, inbound links add to your overall PR "score", where I'll just call it PR+ here. A simplistic calculation would be as follows:

So how do the Malaysian Blog Aggregators fare? [ranked by inbound Google links]
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I was inspired to write about this after reading an article on how Engadget is filled to the brim with ads. First and foremost, I believe that if you have quality content, your readers will not mind the ads as they realise it takes time and effort to write good articles. I am not here to criticise bloggers who earn alot of money but actually learn a trick or two of how they do it.

So, after reading through the MalaysiaBloggers forum, I came upon this topic where most of the top earning bloggers in Malaysia discuss how much they earn. So, I took a screenshot and colored the areas indicating where are the main article, ads, comments, navigational area and so on, like the legend shown below:

I'll present my analysis in the order of how much they are reportedly earning on a monthly basis (might not be accurate since some of them are a few month's old):
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