MONTHLY SALON BLOG DIRECTORY & COMBINED RANKING LIST

Posted on June 6, 2003 by Dave Pollard
salon The following chart shows (a) in red, the ranking among Salon Blogs in number of hits in the past month (to June 5) and (b) in black, the ranking among Salon Blogs in number of inbound blogs (per Technorati ) at June 5, followed by the current number of inbound blogs. Blogs are listed in order of combined (a) + (b) rank. Last month’s combined rank is shown in brackets.

The top 75 blogs received an aggregate 850,000 hits each month, up 14% from the previous month. Name and location of each blog’s ‘owner’, when known, is shown below the blog name. The Salon blog # links to the blog’s home page. Apologies in advance for any errors or omissions. Corrections gratefully accepted.

 1.
(1) 		the reverse cowgirl’s blog
2 / 1  340 inbound blogs
Susannah Breslin 1437 		26.
(26) 		WIFLblog
15 / 42     9
Ted Ritzer 1455 British Columbia
 2.
(2) 		Scott Rosenberg’s Links & Comment
4 / 2  164
Scott Rosenberg 0014 California 		27.
(27) 		Struggle in a Bungalow Kitchen
 33 / 28   14
LL Adams 1754 New York
 3.
(3) 		The Julie/Julia Project
3 / 6   54
Julie Powell 1399 New York 		28.
(28) 		Driver 8
40 / 22    17
Charly Z 1118
 4.
(4) 		Real Live Preacher
7 / 3  125
Anonymous 1772 		29.
(34) 		Emphasis Added
42 / 26   16
Rob Salkowitz 1454
5.
(7) 		Secular Blasphemy
8 / 7   49
Jan Haugland 1561 Norge 		30
(16). 		The Agora
54 / 15    27
Douglas Anders 1147 Ohio
 6.
(8) 		How to Save the World
10 / 5   83
Dave Pollard 2007 Ontario 		31.
(41) 		The Barbaric Yawp
54 / 19    22
Christopher Key 1811 Washington
 7.
(6) 		Radio Free Blogistan
13 / 4   100
Christian Crumlish 1111  California 		32.
(42) 		Maxine ‘s Radio Weblog
35 / 38    10
Maxine Locker 1314
8.
(5) 		The Raven
12 / 8   44
Anonymous 1381 Florida 		33.
(32) 		neva, miss feva, blogging
44  /  30   13
Neva Cavataio 1216 Oregon
 9.
(9) 		filchyboy
1 / 22   17
Christopher Filkins 1512 		34.
(17) 		No Code
54 /  20    19
David Fox 1196 Ohio
10.
(10) 		 The Devil’s Excrement
14 / 9   42
Miguel Octavio 1330 Venezuela 		35.
(43) 		Annoying White Man
22 / 53    4
Unknown  2113
11.
(11) 		 Why Your Wife Won’t Have Sex With You  
11 / 16   26
Julia Deckham Grey 2153 		36.
(29) 		explodedlibrary.info
50 / 26    16
Morgan Wilson 1429 Minnesota
12.
(13) 		Rayne Today
18 / 11   35
Anonymous 1549 Michigan 		37.
(35) 		Everything That Sucks
39 / 38    10
Amanda 1691 Florida no more
13.
(14) 		 Second p0st
 19 / 12    34
Phillip Pearson 0002 New Zealand 		38.
(39) 		Sexy Mothers Do Exist
26 / 51    5
Michelle McBride 1917
14.
(12) 		different strings
29 / 10    40
Kriselda Jarnsaxa 1542 Kansas 		39
(36). 		Pipeline
25 / 53    4
Doug Hennessee 1739 Minnesota
15.
(15) 		My so called lesbian life
20 / 20   19
Penny 1883 Florida 		40.
(33) 		Stuff from Wozz
50 / 30    13
Matt Cable 1019 Colorado
16.
(18) 		Fried Green al-Qaedas
28 / 13   30
Mark Hoback 1424 		41.
(31) 		Hyperbole
21 / 60     2
Jim Haefele 1703 Tunisia
17.
(30) 		 Playing with my food…
24 / 22   17
Paul Hinrichs 1444 North Carolina 		42.
(38) 		Gnosis
49 / 34    12
Morgan Sandquist 1081 New York
18.
(19) 		She’s Actual Size
32 / 14    28
Kat Donohue 1068 California 		43.
(-) 		The Monster Limo Weblog
43 / 42    9
Marc Hatfield 1956 New York
19.
(25) 		 Tales of Drudgery and Boredom
9 / 38    10
Michel Vuijlsteke 1236 Belgie 		44.
(37) 		FarrFeed
38 / 47    7
John Farr 1107 New Mexico
20.
(-) 		 Marprelate Tracts
6 / 42    9
Martin Marprelate 1797 		45.
(48) 		Subdued Citizen
37 / 50    6
Anonymous 1968
21.
(21) 		Standing Room Only
27 / 22    17
Hugh Elliott 1573 California 		46.
(44) 		Life on Earth
53 / 36   11
Giles Boutel 1237
22.
(22) 		David Harris’ Science and Literature
31 / 18   23
David Harris 1092 Maryland 		47.
(45) 		Ojo Caliente
51 / 42   9
Art Jacobson   1919 New Mexico
23.
(24) 		 Pesky the Rat
22 / 28   14
Susan McNerney 1293 California 		48.
(46) 		readme.blog
35 / 58    3
Chris 1075 New York
24.
(20) 		 A blog doesn’t need a clever name
16 / 34    12
Bruce Umbaugh 1004  Missouri 		49.
(47) 		Le Prêtre Noir
64 / 30    13
Father Bojangles 1823
25.
(23) 		 Toby’s Political Diary
34 / 16    26
Toby Sackton 1282 Massachusetts 		50.
(49) 		Blog Baby
49 / 47   7
Marie Foster 2237 Washington

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4 Responses to MONTHLY SALON BLOG DIRECTORY & COMBINED RANKING LIST

  1. Christopher Key says:
    June 7, 2003 at 00:49

    I am in awe of people who can play with statistics the way The Flying Karamazov Brothers play with assorted jugglable (a new coinage?) objects.I’m honored to have made the list, but have to wonder: What Does This Mean?Am I doing something right? Something wrong? Enlighten me, O Manipulator of Numbers.Inquiring minds want to know.

  2. Dave Pollard says:
    June 7, 2003 at 09:51

    Christopher:54/19 22 means you rank 19th in number of inbound blogs with 22 (you had only 12 inbound blogs a month ago), which is a fairly high number i.e. 22 people think your blog is worth looking at quite regularly. The 54 means that they’re not actually looking at it that often, which could mean either you’re not posting often, or you’ve lost their attention for some reason. If you follow the post’s technorati link, then type in your own URL and look at the makeup of the 22 inbound blogs, you can get an idea of who your regular audience is, and who are the 10 new people who have blogrolled you since last month. That will probably tell you what to blog about if you want to get them coming around more often (maybe the Haiku?, maybe the theatrical reports?). I think another reason your rank in #hits is not high, is that you write about enduring things, and write sparingly, so you don’t get the masses of Google hits that someone like M.Marprelate gets when he blogs about Matrix Reloaded. You and I are alike in that. Does that help make sense of the numbers?

  3. filchyboy says:
    June 12, 2003 at 21:56

    This is fine work. I am in Los Angeles btw.

  4. paulapalooza says:
    July 22, 2003 at 19:50

    WOw! I can’t believe I’m just under the top 50. That is so amazing. cool. Especially because I was on vacation for so long and didn’t even get to boost my own ratings with my own perverse sense of self-importance.

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