In the previous blog post, I write about 10 advantages of using blogs for business purpose. Now I want to present the results of research that I conducted to rank 20 most popular blogs that obtaining mainly blogging as a theme. If you want to start blog that will be used as a marketing weapon of your business, or if you want to start a blog as a single business this blog can help you with their different content and how to posts.
I start with research of 50 blogs that obtain or mainly obtain themes about blogging. Probably there are many great blogs with this type of content, also they are not always easy to find among the bulks of online blogs. Before start, I think that this will be an easy job, I’ve been wrong. The most difficult part was to find them, even I know and read 10 of these 20 most popular blogs. However, this research help me to find really great blogs that I don’t know them previously.
For the research purposes, I used 4 different criteria for popularity measurement:
- Google Page Rank. As first criteria that I used in ranking Google Page Rank. Page Rank is algorithm used from Google to rank different pages on the web based on incoming links and their importance. This mean how many incoming links have one page from another with big importance (great Page Rank) the larger will be Page R of that page. The blogs that are presented in the results have Page Rank from 3 to 6. Because of that I select the rating system with rates from 3 to 6. 6 rating will be for more popular and 3 for fewer popular blogs.
- Alexa Ranking. As second criteria in analysis of the blogs with blogging content that I used was Alexa Ranking. Alexa is a very powerful tool used to rank web site traffic based on average three-month traffic each website receives from the number of people who visit a website with the Alexa toolbar installed. Because this ranking system means that sites with lower Alexa’s ranking number had the more visits and popularity, for the research purpose, I assign numbers from 3 to 6 with the meaning as described in the previous paragraph of Page Rank.
- From 1 to 10.000 – ranking 6
- From 10.001 to 40.000 – ranking 5
- From 40.001 to 100.000 – ranking 4 and
- Greater then 100.000 – ranking 3
- Technorati authority. Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher number, means more Technorati Authority for the blog. I assign numbers from 3 to 6 based on Technorati authority as described below:
- From 1.001 to 1.500 – ranking 6
- From 501 to 1.000 – ranking 5
- From 101 to 500 – ranking 4 and
- From 0 to 100 – ranking 3
- Feed Burner subscription statistics. These statistics show the number of subscribers for RSS feed that one blog has. More subscribers mean more readers that believe of that blog and read blog post on daily basis. Because of that more subscribers means greater popularity of the blog. I assign numbers for 3 to 6 based on Feed Burner statistics as described below:
- Above 100.000 – ranking 6
- From 30.001 to 50.000 – ranking 5
- From 10.000 to 30.000 – ranking 4 and
- From 0 to 10.000 – ranking 3
The results are presented in the table below.
Top 20 Most Popular Blogs with Blogging Content |
Rank of Popularity |
| Problogger | 24,00 |
| Copyblogger | 24,00 |
| John Chow | 22,00 |
| Daily Blog Tips | 21,00 |
| Entrepreneurs-Journey | 20,00 |
| Dosh Dosh | 20,00 |
| Weblog Tools Collection | 20,00 |
| Quick Online Tips | 19,00 |
| BloggerBuster | 19,00 |
| Lorelle on WordPress | 19,00 |
| ChrisG | 17,00 |
| The Wrong Advices | 17,00 |
| Blog Herald | 17,00 |
| Performancing | 15,00 |
| Converstations | 15,00 |
| Andy Beard | 15,00 |
| Blogging Pro | 15,00 |
| JohnTP | 14,00 |
| Successful-Blog | 14,00 |
| Alister Cameron | 13,00 |
Maybe in the list missed some blogs, and If you think that it is worth being taken into consideration then feel free to make a comment, and it will be obtained in next release of research.
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