Top 25 Blogs About Blogging

The “Top 25 Blogs About Blogging” list ranks blogs according to their Google Pagerank, Alexa rank, number of Bloglines subscribers and Technorati authority.

Each of the four factors range from 0 to 10, where 10 is the best score. The maximum total score for each blog, therefore, is 40. There will be monthly updates. Below the table you will find the details about the algorithm (check also the Top 25 SEO Blogs).


#1	Problogger	6	10	10	10	36
#2	Copyblogger	6	9	10	10	35
#3	John Chow	6	10	6	10	32
#4	Quick Online Tips	6	8	10	6	30
#5	Daily Blog Tips	5	8	7	9	29
#6	Lorelle on Wordpress	6	8	6	9	29
#7	Dosh Dosh	4	9	5	9	27
#8	Performancing	7	8	1	10	26
#9	Weblog Tools Collection	6	9	5	6	26
#10	Blog Herald	6	7	4	9	26
#11	Blogging Pro	6	7	4	8	25
#12	Successful-Blog	6	6	4	8	24
#13	JohnTP	6	8	3	7	24
#14	Engtech	6	6	2	7	21
#15	Bloggers Blog	6	3	6	5	20
#16	Andy Beard	5	7	2	6	20
#17	ChrisG	5	6	4	4	19
#18	Converstations	5	3	5	6	19
#19	The Wrong Advices	5	4	1	5	15
#20	Business Blog Wire	6	2	2	4	14
#21	Alister Cameron	5	4	1	4	14
#22	Blog About Your Blog	4	5	1	4	14
#23	Blogtrepreneur	5	3	1	4	13
#24	I Help You Blog	4	3	2	2	12
#25	Build A Better Blog	6	1	3	1	11

Blogs considered: the list considers only blogs that have a high percentage of blogging-related content. Topics might range from blogging tips to monetization, from news to building communities or business blogs.

Google Pagerank (0 to 10): the actual Pagerank was used on the algorithm.

Alexa Rank (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on the Alexa Rank (i.e., 150k and up, 150k-100k, 100k-75k, 75k-50k) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

Bloglines Subscribers (0 to 10): Subscriber ranges were determined (i.e., 1-50, 50-100, 100-150, 150-200) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

Technorati Authority (0 to 10): Ranges were determined based on Technorati’s Authority rank(i.e., 1-100, 100-200, 200-400,400-600) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

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167 Responses to “Top 25 Blogs About Blogging”

Matej on May 28th, 2007 6:10 am

Dude that will rock you blog in terms of traffic
Greta analysis, and i found some blog which i didn’t know about
Thanks!
Andy Beard on May 28th, 2007 6:17 am

There is something wrong with your Bloglines script, because it is probably not handling merged feeds correctly.

Feedburner currently lists me as having 106 Bloglines subscribers (yeah they are hard to come by), though many scripts report me as having only 52 for the last 4 months.

Until Technorati stop counting links from theme publishers (they just kick them out of search results currently), lots of things are too easy to game.
Daniel on May 28th, 2007 6:33 am

Andy, for Bloglines I am using the number reported directly by Bloglines above each feed.

My feedburner also reports a different number for Bloglines subscribers of DBT, but I can not access that number for all the blogs.
Melissa on May 28th, 2007 6:36 am

I think this is the first time Problogger wasn’t listed first! Awesome list, lots of stuff I never knew about and some I’ve had bookmarked for a long time! I added the new ones to my bloglines.

Another good one is About Weblogs. She hasn’t been around as long as some of the others but has some useful content.
Daniel on May 28th, 2007 6:43 am

Melissa, yeah I was surprised about Problogger not coming first also. It is mainly because of the (surprisingly) low number of Bloglines subscribers.

Problogger has 25k total subscribers, but apparently only 750 are coming from Bloglines. Mightbe a mistake on Bloglines reporting, I will check with Darren.
Andy Beard on May 28th, 2007 6:50 am

Maybe there is a different API call, but not every blog suffers from the same problem, and it might well be affecting you.

I just checked, internally Bloglines are today reporting 99 subscribers.

You are listed internally on bloglines as having 345 subscribers. SEO for Firefox is reporting 183, and that is most likely using the same API calls as your script, and the various monetization services.
Andy Beard on May 28th, 2007 6:57 am

Trying a test that has just set my feed count to zero internally, but it will be interesting. Just need to write it up now
Daniel on May 28th, 2007 6:59 am

Andy, yeah I am using the internal Bloglines number. For your blog it is 99. As soon as you reach 101 you will jump to another range.

I guess that Firefox SEO API is quite outdated. Looks like is the same used by
http://www.text-link-ads.com/blog_juice/.
There I also have 183 Bloglines subscribers, and you have 52.
engtech @ internet duct tape on May 28th, 2007 9:43 am

engtech.wordpress.com (now internetducttape.com)

PR 6
Alexa 6-7 (38,629)
Technorati Authority 10 (1240-1290)
Bloglines 2 (143 = 52+87+4, yay having three split feeds)

= 24-25
Adnan on May 28th, 2007 9:49 am

Hey Daniel

Good post and thanks for adding Blogtrepreneur to the list.
I think though that it should be Google Reader’s RSS which should be counted. I know there’s not a good way to measure these which is probably why you use Bloglines, but I only have a handful of Bloglines subscribers, whereas over 50% of my subs are Google Reader/Homepage.

But great idea anyway.
Adnan
Daniel on May 28th, 2007 10:09 am

Adnan, yeah I am using Bloglines because they report the numbers publicly.

Engtech, just added your blog, I was not sure if we could consider it a “blogging blog” since you cover a lot of topics, but most of them are related to blogging in one way or another so there you go.
Cory OBrien on May 28th, 2007 10:31 am

Great list! This will definitely be helpful on my search for new blogs.

Congrats on making it to #6. You’re in good company.
Daniel on May 28th, 2007 10:35 am

Thanks Cory, I was surprised to see DBT in #6. I do recognize that some blogs below me are far better :), guess I was lucky with a good number of subscribers in Bloglines and a good Alexa.
engtech @ internet duct tape on May 28th, 2007 11:43 am

@Daniel: thanks for the add! I’m not surprised to see you as #6… you did a very good job of targeting your blog as a niche and executing flawlessly.

One interesting things about Bloglines numbers.. I think they’re skewed towards a blog’s age. If a blog was popular before Google Reader they’ll have more Bloglines subscribers. Google must have decimated that company.
Matt Wardman on May 28th, 2007 12:39 pm

I’m interested in the PR6 for Problogger. That was 7 previously

In the last update a couple of the top UK political blogs were also downgraded from 7 to 6. There are now no UK Political Blogs above 6 as far as I know.

Is Google rebalancing?

btw. Could you publish your full algorithm.

Cheers

Matt
Darren on May 28th, 2007 3:27 pm

Couple of comments - firstly on bloglines.

I have different counts for different feeds. ie for one of my feeds I have 1250 or so subscribers, another 775, another 100 or so.

The other thing is that I suspect older blogs will be ranked higher with this because of bloglines. These days more people use google reader so new blogs will have less people signing up with bloglines whereas a year or two back more people signed up with bloglines.
Darren on May 28th, 2007 3:29 pm

also on the PR thing that Matt pointed out - Problogger’s PR seems to go up and down from 6 to 7 each time google updates - it must be sitting right on the edge between the two.
Daniel on May 29th, 2007 1:56 am

Darren thanks for clarifying, I will switch to your biggest feed on Bloglines now.
Darren on May 29th, 2007 2:25 am

no worries Daniel. Glad to be of assistance. There’s a couple of nice blogs in that list that I hadn’t seen before.
Stephen Welton on May 29th, 2007 6:45 am

Congratulations to everyone who made the list!
gili on May 29th, 2007 1:27 pm

What about Connected Internet?
I believe Everton offered many useful blogging tips, and no doubt he deservers a place in the list.

Gili
Daniel on May 29th, 2007 1:37 pm

Gili, I consulted Everton before publishing the list, and we were not sure if we could consider his blog a “blogging blog”. Sure it has very useful blogging tips, but that is like 25% of the content, he also deals with lots of different stuff.
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Ravi on May 29th, 2007 9:18 pm

Nice Post
CHAN on May 29th, 2007 10:43 pm

Haven’t seen labnol.blogspot.com why?
Daniel on May 29th, 2007 10:50 pm

Chan, Amit deals with a many different topics on the “Digital Inspiration” blog, that is why he was not considered for the list. (I love his blog, but the list needed to be objective and not subjective :)).
Thilak on May 29th, 2007 11:20 pm

Thanks for adding me on the list, although, I didn’t expect it.
Moses Francis on May 29th, 2007 11:20 pm

Interesting list, thanks for compiling.
Thilak on May 29th, 2007 11:27 pm

Gili: One thing i like about Everton’s blog is that he writes what he wants to write. I mean… his blog is like his mind, he writes whatever useful to him, which is pretty cool because we get to learn a lot from him.
Fred Zelders on May 30th, 2007 2:41 am

Thank You Daniel!

Question: Do you consider to serve a “Top 25 Blogs About Blogging” Reading List (OPML) in the near future?
(OPML updated as your list updates?)
Daniel on May 30th, 2007 3:52 am

Fred, that is a good idea. I will work on the OPML and add it to the bottom of the post.
Alister Cameron // Blogologist on May 30th, 2007 3:27 pm

Bloglines subscribers… that assumes bloglines has the lion’s share of the market or is even representative of it.

Yeah right!

Can we drop the bloglines thing and lobby Google (you know, the new owners of Feedburner) to publish some sort of Technorati-style index of feed readerhip data?

Bloglines. What a joke.

-Alister
Andy Beard on May 30th, 2007 3:33 pm

The data is there, people just have to switch their API on.

My feed stats have been accessible for a long time, but I doubt anyone is using them
Daniel on May 31st, 2007 1:38 am

I am willing to lobby Google with you Alister :). Until they listen to us, however, any ranking that takes into consideration RSS subscribers will need to be based on Bloglines. Like it or not.
Carazariah on May 31st, 2007 6:28 am

I found that I had already subscribed to some of these, Problogger, Copyblogger, Lorelle, Andy Beard and some more. But what I found most interesting was the amount of quality content I was missing!

I must of added a dozen Feed Subscriptions via Google Reader. Hmm, is there any way to track straight feedburner or other rss stats, besides bloglines?

C
Myo Kyaw Htun on June 2nd, 2007 9:22 pm

Daniel,

Thanks much for the list. Many of blogs you listed in here i never came across before. I saw some of the blogs owned by indian bloggers.
Jermayn Parker on June 3rd, 2007 7:53 pm

Yeah agree with Myo Kyaw Hturn. Ive only heard of three of these blogs before. Yours, Pro Blogger and Lorelle’s…
Matthew on June 7th, 2007 5:40 pm

from my calculations we should be on this list :-\
Daniel on June 8th, 2007 4:42 am

Matthew, I will check it out and update the list, thanks for the heads up.
Matthew on June 8th, 2007 2:40 pm

thanks would love to be on the list
Gouthamlal TM on June 24th, 2007 2:19 am

Include this blog to the top 25
http://www.bloggletype.blogspot.com
betty muy on August 1st, 2007 6:48 pm

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Chris Lodge on August 6th, 2007 11:52 am

My maths is probably hopelessly out, but I make my blog to be at least a 12, maybe a 13?

Pretty please?
Index.com.my on August 9th, 2007 11:06 pm

hope all top bloggers will be success always ..

cool
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Gaje Master on October 10th, 2007 9:38 am

wow, that is a great list that you have there. I can’t wait until I make it somewhere in the list.
Compass on October 10th, 2007 12:52 pm

I tried to figure out the score for my blog, I think it might rank here quite well.

How do you get the bloglines subscribers though?
Daniel on October 10th, 2007 2:39 pm

Bloglines make this number public on their API.

I will take a look on your site and update the rankings if needed.

thanks
ឈរ រ៉ាណ on October 26th, 2007 5:25 am

Through Top 25 about blogging I think that my blog must be updated more
Aneesh on December 3rd, 2007 5:01 am

These blogs are quite interesting especially the problogger..i really love it…
snowgirl on December 17th, 2007 11:02 pm

nice blog list
Marginsxs/Kathleen on December 20th, 2007 9:34 am

Hello,

Very good blogging list!!

Kathleen
vlad lauren on February 9th, 2008 8:51 am

Good post, Thanks much for the list
blogsha.com on February 15th, 2008 7:54 pm

Nice list !!
I hope to be in that list one day !

Shardul
http://www.blogsha.com/
TrafficGuru on February 20th, 2008 8:53 am

The blogs list are very useful to new bloggers as well as old bloggers
Cindy Szponder on February 21st, 2008 5:30 pm

Exactly the information I needed, exactly when I needed it. Thank you so much.

Much success,

Cindy
John Smith on March 9th, 2008 3:47 pm

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felinesopher on March 10th, 2008 9:51 am

This is cool, great for newbies to understand & study about how to blog from A-Z from these high rank blogs.
but, I wonder there are rarely any detail tips how the top bloggers manage to get popular & high rank, if someone could kindly lead to it, very much appreciated:)
James on March 14th, 2008 11:02 pm

This is just a nice collection for novice bloggers like me to get extra bunch of knowledge about blogging. Thanks!
vishnu on April 1st, 2008 8:46 am

A very nice anylysis.. For beginner this is a very great info about who are ranking their websites and how these are all working…
your suggestion and comments needed..
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Simona Rusnakova on April 5th, 2008 8:31 pm

Thanks for this overview, it’s actually really good because of their high Google page rank, I can comment on them and get good quality external links.
Career Bubble on April 7th, 2008 6:19 pm

Nice post.I really enjoyed
SEO hosting on April 8th, 2008 1:00 am

This list is a must read for everyone but the problem is if you keep reading them everyday you end up with no time to blog on your own sites. Best to mix it up alittle bit every week.
Raj Mangalam on April 17th, 2008 9:12 am

Good Articles but I think this is small list….There must be some more sites…related to blogging
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Masalaboard on April 28th, 2008 3:18 pm

This is cool, great for newbies to understand & study about how to blog from A-Z from these high rank blogs.
but, I wonder there are rarely any detail tips how the top bloggers manage to get popular & high rank, if someone could kindly lead to it, very much appreciated:)
Xboard on April 29th, 2008 11:57 am

Thanks for this overview, it’s actually really good because of their high Google page rank, I can comment on them and get good quality external links.
Niall Devitt on May 12th, 2008 11:01 am

Thanks for the list which is really useful for a newbie blogger like me. keep up the good work.
Where to make money online on May 23rd, 2008 9:30 pm

Great list..keep on updating,thanks
Joanna on June 10th, 2008 11:18 am

Great list here - well done on position #5!
shotazi on July 7th, 2008 1:39 pm

Very objective list, your blog is 5 in list, you are cool.
Fred on July 11th, 2008 2:18 am

I really enjoy your blog site and found so much helpful information. Thanks for sharing and thanks to all the great info.
Dilson Decano on July 11th, 2008 11:38 am

I really like JohnTP’s blog. i will check also the other top 24 bloggers..