Social Media Blogs Top 200

18 May 2009

Posted in Top Lists

Well, here it is… the Social Media Blogs Top 200. Forget the AdAge Power 150, forget BlogRank’s Top 100 Blogs, forget eCairn’s Top 150 Blogs, and forget WinningTheWeb IM Top Blogs. This is the real thing. The best list of social media blogs in the world.

Why is this the best list?

Ah, glad you asked…

This Top 200 list makes use of better source data. Sure, I’ve included PageRank, FeedBurner, Alexa, and Technorati. But the calculations for this list even included the average number of comments on the blogs! Now who can beat me doing that?
Unlike the other lists, this one does not include any blogs that failed to talk about “social media”. I mean, seriously, Bad Pitch Blog? AdFreak? Crenk? Search Engine Land? Why on earth are these blogs referred to by others as “social media blogs” when they fail to write about social media? If it doesn’t walk like a duck, swim like a duck, and quack like a duck, it’s not a duck.
I’ve included many blogs that are not listed on competing lists. I mean, really… How is it possible to forget about Rough Type? Or Soshable? No list can be complete without blogs like those. And it seems like The Next Web is being boycotted by the other lists. Which is a real shame, because this blog has very high scores. And they’re Dutch, like me, which means they’re good…
I’m sure the algorithms used for this list are superior to any others. In fact, I described them on this page: How to Make a Top Blog List. You can check and confirm it yourself.
I’m also quite sure I didn’t make any stupid errors, like listing a number of the same blogs multiple times in the same list… [Hello eCairn, fixed your bug yet? 🙂 ]
This list is not some thinly veiled scheme to put a frickin’ badge on your site. I have no badges. Hurray!!
And last but not least: This list is bigger. And bigger is better. So there.

Oh, BTW: For some of the statistics I happily used the script that was kindly supplied by Steven Machtelinckx. This saved me a lot of time… Thanks Steven!

Here’s the top 100 part of the list. You can download the entire top 200 list here. It includes author names, statistics, and feeds, Enjoy!

Pos	Blog	Twitter	PR	Cm	GL	FB	AR	TA
1	Seth Godin’s Blog	thisissethsblog	7		1	1	7	3
2	Mashable	mashable	7	25	2	2	1	1
3	ProBlogger	problogger	6	6	8	6	4	4
4	Copyblogger	copyblogger	6	7	5	7	8	8
5	Scobleizer: bleeding edge technology talk	scobleizer	7	10	4		25	6
6	Dosh Dosh	doshdosh	6	3	6	10	12	12
7	ChrisBrogan	chrisbrogan	6	16	9	12	19	5
8	Micro Persuasion	steverubel	7	43	7	8	33	11
9	SEOmoz	seomoz	6	26	40	9	2	16
10	ReadWriteWeb	rww	8	113	3	3	3	2
11	Online Marketing Blog	leeodden	6	57	27	14	17	14
12	Duct Tape Marketing	ducttape	6	60	19	4		31
13	Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet		7		34		55
14	Internet Marketing News	andybeal	6	71	31	17	16	18
15	Daily Blog Tips		6	68	63	13	9	7
16	Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang	jowyang	5	57	10	11	22	9
17	Logic+Emotion	armano	6	43	39	19	58	15
18	Yoast – Tweaking Websites	yoast	7	8	91	43	5	13
19	The Next Web	thenextweb	6	45	53	31	18	17
20	Publishing 2.0	scottkarp	7	32	20	16	91	42
21	Groundswell		6	101	16			27
22	Chris Pirillo	chrispirillo	7	146	21	15	13	23
23	Web Ink Now	dmscott	6	53	38		69	24
24	MarketingProfs Daily Fix		6	65	32	24	47	34
25	Rough Type		7	89	13		81	22
26	Bokardo.com – Social Web Design	bokardo	6	12	62		62	61
27	Chrisg.com	chrisgarrett	6	14	126	18	30	45
28	PR 2.0	briansolis	6	137	22		45	20
29	PR-Squared	tdefren	6	29	35	44	78	40
30	Technosailor	technosailor	7	19	113		63	47
31	TwiTip	problogger	5	33	116	28	11	10
32	Six Pixels of Separation	mitchjoel	6	82	30	36	65	37
33	HorsePigCow	missrogue	6	37	42		112	67
34	Conversation Agent	conversationage	6	101	26	42	67	36
35	Pronet Advertising	neilpatel	6	61	81	29	37	79
36	Adverblog	realadverblog	6	187	14	21	53	35
37	Influential Marketing Blog	rohitbhargava	6	89	97	26	56	41
38	Global Neighbourhoods	shelisrael	6	65	28		146	44
39	Church of the Customer Blog		6	59	11	5	208	63
40	Social Media Explorer	jasonfalls	5	51	56	46	64	39
41	louisgray.com	louisgray	6	131	89	38	42	29
42	The Viral Garden	mackcollier	5	67	29	50	86	57
43	Search Engine Guide	seguide	4	97	52	20	14	32
44	/Message	stoweboyd	6	97	55	39	111	62
45	Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media	kanter	6	194	45	33	79	24
46	Drew’s Marketing Minute	drewmclellan	5	71	46	35	99	76
47	John Chow dot Com	johnchow	3	11	51		6	19
48	Get Elastic: The Ecommerce Blog	roxyyo	5	76	131		27	69
49	Brand Autopsy		6	113	78	25	142	52
50	Andy Beard – Internet Business Systems	andybeard	5	15	141	47	28	112
51	The Buzz Bin	geoffliving	6	120	49		89	117
52	Sugarrae	sugarrae	5	13	171	59	35	60
53	HubSpot’s Inbound Internet Marketing Blog		5	126	135	23		26
54	Blogstorm	patrickaltoft	6	137	188	41	21	51
55	Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog		6	286	41	27	52	50
56	The Harte of Marketing Blog	bethharte	5	20	137		109	84
57	Davefleet.com	davefleet	6	20	121	84	107	64
58	Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen	andrew_chen	5	64	154	34	66
59	Personal Branding Blog	danschawbel	5	120	110	49	59	53
60	Whatsnextblog	whatsnext	6	180	36	52	123	70
61	CenterNetworks	centernetworks	6	304	87	40	31	30
62	Social Times	allnick	6	168	126		61	87
63	The Blog Herald	blogherald	4	214	17		24	21
64	Being Peter Kim	peterkim	6	270	63	51	72	33
65	Jaffe Juice	jaffejuice	6	228	24	45	152	47
66	Talent Imitates, Genius Steals	faris	5	74	37	57	199	66
67	Many-to-Many		4	39	17			137
68	The BrandBuilder Blog	thebrandbuilder	5	61	143		120	95
69	Friday Traffic Report	bendtheweb	4	56	191	30	23	79
70	Altitude Branding	ambercadabra	5	71	121	80	116	58
71	Bruce Clay, Inc.	bruceclayinc	5	131	168		20	118
72	Diva Marketing Blog	tobydiva	5	187	22		175	55
73	The Forrester Blog	forrester	5	131	129			82
74	Christopher S. Penn’s Awaken Your Superhero	cspenn	6	85	155		128	133
75	Strategic Public Relations	prblog	5	109	50	37	203	110
76	10e20		5	18	267		40	125
77	a shel of my former self	shel	6	304	25		115	68
78	Greg Verdino	gregverdino	5	109	48	71	168	85
79	PRBlogger	stedavies	5	85	95	61	161	99
80	The Social Media Marketing Blog	scottmonty	3	36	56	62	104	38
81	Techno//Marketer	mattdickman	5	113	71	68	162	86
82	Smart Mobs		7	304	12		150	73
83	The Jeff Pulver Blog	jeffpulver	5	85	47	131	98	75
84	Damn! I Wish I’d Thought of That!	sernovitz	5	204	77		127	74
85	Econsultancy – Digital Marketing Blog		6	204	186			45
86	Winning the Web	gyutae	4	23	227	68	36	55
87	The Future Buzz	adamsinger	4	46	205	66	51	49
88	Buzz Marketing for Technology	pauldunay	5	120	134	74	126	83
89	Bloggers Blog	bloggersblog	5	187	65	65	92	142
90	NevilleHobson.com	jangles	5	304	32	64	105	54
91	Todd And…	toddand	5	89	112		169	141
92	ViralBlog	viralblog	5	146	150	77	75	103
93	Techipedia	tamar	3	2	164	58	84	58
94	Brent Csutoras	brentcsutoras	5	69	244		57	151
95	Dan Zarrella	danzarrella	5	180	199	86	41	43
96	360 Digital Influence – Fresh Influence		5	204	123		82	119
97	Brains on Fire		5	172	101		147	114
98	POP! PR Jots	jspepper	5	22	68		269	170
99	‘Cross The Breeze	crossthebreeze	5	78	144		250	64
100	Somewhat Frank	frankgruber	6	304	100	32	110	136

Note: The last five columns (Cm .. TA) show the relative score of a blog in a particular category. For example: Dosh Dosh was the 10th ranking blog when sorted on FeedBurner subscriber count. (Only the PR column shows the actual Google’s Page Rank.)

Legend

PR = Google Page Rank
Cm = Comments on blog
GL = Google search links
FB = FeedBurner count
AR = Alexa Rank
TA = Technorati Authority

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