A blog / blog post / blogger in order to be considered should satisfy the following conditions.

I. It must be Filipino owned.

II. It should not be a blog that belongs to a publishing or media groups.

III. Philippine Blog Awards Founders, officers and members of the Philippine Blog Awards Board of Directors, their blogs, blog projects, posts, videocasts, photos and podcats they worked on are automatically disqualified from being nominated.

IV. For the Best Blog Division: The blog must have been established at least four months before April 2008. And for blogs should have at least maintained for three months a regular post at least every two weeks for. While for podcasts and videocasts a monthly post for three months.

V. For the Best Post Division: The post/videocast/podcast must have been published from April 2007 to April 2008. A maximum number of five posts from the same blog will be allowed per category.

VI. For the Special Awards Division: Nominees for the award must at least have been established, introduced, and blogging for at least a year or within the year.

VII. Submitted blogs and post should contain the necessary authorization to use the images, audio, text and other content.

VIII. And the owner/blogger of the blog must accept the nomination.