Top 25 Blogs About Blogging

217 Responses to “Top 25 Blogs About Blogging”

• Danielon May 29, 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 :)).

• Fred Zelderson May 30, 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?)

• Thilakon May 29, 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.

• Moses Francison May 29, 2007 11:20 pm

  Interesting list, thanks for compiling.

• Thilakon May 29, 2007 11:20 pm

  Thanks for adding me on the list, although, I didn’t expect it.

• CHANon May 29, 2007 10:43 pm

  Haven’t seen labnol.blogspot.com why?

• Ravion May 29, 2007 9:18 pm

  Nice Post

• Top 25 Blogs About Blogging by DailyBlogTipson May 29, 2007 3:08 pm

  […] Top 25 Blogs About Blogging by DailyBlogTips. DailyBlogTips has a list ranking the Top 25 Blogs about Blogging. The ranking is based on some numerical factors including Google’s Pagerank, Alexa rank, Technorati Authority and Bloglines subscribers to create a truly objective ranking… […]

• Danielon May 29, 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.

• gilion May 29, 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

• Stephen Weltonon May 29, 2007 6:45 am

  Congratulations to everyone who made the list!

• Darrenon May 29, 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.

• Danielon May 29, 2007 1:56 am

  Darren thanks for clarifying, I will switch to your biggest feed on Bloglines now.

• Darrenon May 28, 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.

• Darrenon May 28, 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.

• Matt Wardmanon May 28, 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

• engtech @ internet duct tapeon May 28, 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.

• Danielon May 28, 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.

• Cory OBrienon May 28, 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.

• Danielon May 28, 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.

• Adnanon May 28, 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

• engtech @ internet duct tapeon May 28, 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

• Danielon May 28, 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.

• Andy Beardon May 28, 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

• Andy Beardon May 28, 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.

• Danielon May 28, 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.

• Melissaon May 28, 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.

• Danielon May 28, 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.

• Andy Beardon May 28, 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.

• Matejon May 28, 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!