Last week New York Magazine looked at the Haves and Have Nots in blogging. I wanted to know whether or not whether I had a chance on the world stage to become a B list or even A list blogger. To be on the A list – the top 100 – you’ll need almost 2,300 links to your site. The famous Chocolate & Zucchini has 1,295 links at the timeof writing.
The lessons to be learned in jumping up the rankings are:
- the longer you’ve been at it the more links and traffic you will have
- the more social you are in leaving comments and joining events the more traffic you will have
- As clare has found, cat blogging is very popular. A cat blog ranks No.60. Microsoft’s Robert Scoble is 59!
1. Grab your Fork Global rank 12,199 313 links 125 sites Sydney Apr 04
2. Spiceblog 115 sites Perth July 03
3. Esurientes Global rank 14,924 529 links 107 sites Melbourne Oct 04
4. Eat Stuff Global rank 15,778 261 links 103 sites Sydney Apr 05
5. Taste everything once Global rank 20,954 243 links 87 sites Perth Mar 05(turned out WA was Washington)
5. The Food Palate Global rank 26,291 237 links 74 sites Sydney Mar 05
6. Tomato Global rank 33,114 156 links 60 sites Melbourne July 05
7. A Few of my Favourite Things 36 sites Melbourne July 05
8. Benjamin Christie 36 sites Sydney
9. For the fork and the spoon 35 sites Melbourne May 05
10. The Breakfast Blog 28 sites Melbourne Jan 05
11. What I Cooked Last Night 27 sites Melbourne Nov 03
12. The Occasional Epicure 110 54 links 25 sites Brisbane Mar 05
13. My Favourite Plum 21 sites Melbourne July 05
14. Taott! 21 sites Sydney Nov 04
15. Sydney Food Diary 20 sites Sydney Feb 05
16. Sarah discovers how to eat 19 sites Melbourne Jan 05
17. Not Just Desserts 16 sites Brisbane Jun 05
18. Kitchen on Clarendon 15 sites Brisbane Mar 05
19. We do chew our food 14 sites Melbourne Jan 06
20. Raging yoghurt 12 sites Sydney Feb 03
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Ah but Ed if you looked at eatstuff.blogspot.com I would be number 1
Technorati Rank: 11,126 (691 links from 134 sites)
That’s true and the new domain has raced up the rankings in two months proving that cats are winners. I thought I’d update this once a month to track movements.
Umm, Taste everything once is from Spokane Washington, that’s what the WA stands for
Thanks Jo. revised and now Jamie at the Breakfast Blog has snuck into tenth place and raging Yoghurt 20.
I feel so validated now.
Do you think I should get a cat?
I’d get a cat quick before Clare takes the top spot. Personally, I’m saving ours for when my ratings slide.
LOL
I didn’t mean it like that…. I was just shocked, is all……
I had no idea kiri would be so popular
So I can’t say “cat fight”
Definately not
It’s interesting; what’s the difference between links and sites? Evidently sites count for something more than links, otherwise I’d be ahead of Grab Your Fork (which I imagine I would never be). Where did you compile the information? Really interesting.
It’s a bit like traffic in that unique sites are more important than the total number of sites/links. Of course, this isn’t the whole picture. the idea is that the more unique sites linking and the more traffic you get. There are plans afoot for a local type of Technorati style tracker which hopefully will aid finding local blogs.
Any way to find local blogs more easily sounds like a good one. I spent months thinking I was alone in the Australian foodblogging world before slowly starting to find the others.
Holy cow, better pay more attention to what I am doing!
Wow! Now I wish I was from Australia! Is there a Spokane there too?
No Spokane bur Wa as in Western Australia. hence the mix up. I’m about to update this in some new fangled way.