Who Is The Coolest Guy On The Planet Now?
The coolest guy on the planet must be Seth Godin because his blog remains at the top of The Viral Gardens top 25 Marketing blogs.
And what a difference a year makes in the blogosphere.
Blogs have entered and dropped out of the ratings, as you can see from the table below.
New entries in our March dip into the Viral Gardens latest top 25 are shown in red.
You can also see 11 blogs that are in the top 25 but which weren't there in either, or both, of April or October 2006 (shown as ??).
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| Alexa | Posn | Alexa | Posn Oct 2007 | Posn |
| Seth's Blog | 5,244 | 1 | 5,310 | 1 | 1 |
| Creating Passionate Users | 15,868 | 2 | 18,540 | 3 | 5 |
| Gaping Void | 18,440 | 3 | 18,694 | 4 | 3 |
| Duct Tape Marketing | 18,572 | 4 | 18,072 | 2 | 4 |
| Marketing Shift | 32,244 | 5 | 34,643 | 5 | 6 |
| Daily Fix | 48,322 | 6 | 42,028 | 6 | ?? |
| 52,658 | 7 | 108,084 | 16 | ?? |
| New School Of Network Marketing | 67,735 | 8 | 94,440 | 11 | ?? |
| Drew's Marketing Minute | 68,591 | 9 | Not in | ?? | ?? |
| The Viral Garden | 71,051 | 10 | 78,971 | 10 | ?? |
| Influential Interactive Marketing | 73,087 | 11 | Not in | ?? | ?? |
| Coolzor | 93,215 | 12 | 52,950 | 7 | 11 |
| Logic + Emotion | 97,286 | 13 | 107,072 | 15 | ?? |
| Church of the Customer | 114,885 | 14 | 68,690 | 9 | 9 |
| What's Next | 125,489 | 15 | 98,694 | 13 | 10 |
| Marketing Headhunter | 139,215 | 16 | Not in | ?? | ?? |
| Marketing Nirvana | 140,825 | 17 | 141,852 | 18 | ?? |
| Brand Autospy | 142,591 | 18 | 98,282 | 12 | 8 |
| Diva Marketing | 145,362 | 19 | 189,487 | 20 | 16 |
| Jaffe Juice | 149,683 | 20 | 146,177 | 19 | 13 |
| Spare Change | 173,551 | 21 | 237,221 | 24 | ?? |
| Hee-Haw Marketing | 194,217 | 22 | Not in | ?? | ?? |
| Pro Hip-Hip - Hip-Hop Marketing | 202,258 | 23 | 206,218 | 21 | ?? |
| Experience Curve | 203,228 | 24 | 110,511 | 17 | ?? |
| CK's Blog | 220,114 | 25 | Not in | ?? | ?? |
| Marketing For Power | 375,470 | ?? | Not in | ?? | ?? |
Looks like I'm beginning to catch up in Alexa rankings. Will it make any difference to the erudite comments I get if I get into the top 25?
Blogs that have dropped out since I looked in October 2006 are:
| Blog Title | Original Position |
| HorsePigCow | 8 |
| Emergence Marketing | 14 |
| Brains on Fire | 22 |
| Marketallica | 23 |
| Beyond Madison Avenue | 25 |
Here's an interesting thought...
Why have certain blogs dropped out of the top 25 marketing blogs list?
Are they not posted to enough, too much or the content is worse, too verbose or boring?
By the way, please accept my apologies as I did promise to give you the 5 things you really need to grow your business. I didn't manage to give you them yesterday or today. Don't worry I'll list them soon.
5 comments:
Jim,
Spike from Brains on Fire here. I'm not gonna pretend to know how the rankings thing works, but while our Alexa ranking has dropped, all of our other rankings have either stayed pretty level, or gone up (Technorati, Bloglines, etc.). We actually have more links from more new blogs since we were dropped from the Viral Top 25.
Rankings make my head hurt.
Hi Spike,
I think the ranking is purely based on Alexa. So inevitably it's going to be less than you'd expect. As you know installing the Alexa toolbar is how Alexa gathers its "votes". And not everyone has Alexa installed.
Perhaps we should include weightings for Technorati and Bloglines too?
I'll have a ponder on that one!
Jim
Yeah, I knew that his is based on Alexa, and that's cool. (Mack is a great guy, BTW.)
Coming up on out blog's second birthday, I would venture to say that we're not as concerned with rankings as we once were. Oh, sure, we still like to check them, but, as you know, it's not really about that. It's about connecting with kindred spirits and having conversations with them.
Keep up the great work!
-S
Thanks for taking the time to put this chart together. Much appreciated. I agree with you on the posting frequency. I've seen Diva Marketing drop with less frequent posting.
I wonder how bloggers, who have multiple feeds, would fare if Alexa (and T-rati) were combined. My blog, has 3 unique feeds. Would be interesting to see if the Top 25 changed much.
Thanks Toby,
Interestingly enough today my Alexa blog rating changed from 375,470 to 381,335! Mind you I didn't post every day this week...
Creating a new ranking system based on several feeds could be interesting. Although I wonder how you could draw the line? And exactly what should you use as a measurement?
Jim
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