Are you friendly?
or: In which I present a brief and highly unscientific analysis of blog rankings
Technorati's
Top 100 Technorati ranks the "most authoritative blogs," based on the number of blog posts that link to a given blog.
Bloglines'
Most Popular Feeds ranks blogs according to the number of Bloglines users who subscribe to the blog's feed.
I was curious if there was a correlation between the two rankings, so I grabbed the lists, culled out the duplicates, and got to work performing some extremely serious number crunching. There were 21 blogs in common between the Technorati and Bloglines rankings. While several blogs had similar positions in the two lists, other blogs differed wildly.
Raw data:
The table is sorted by the Delta column, which shows the Technorati ranking minus the Bloglines ranking. A high negative delta means that the blog is linked to quite frequently, but there are comparatively far fewer people who subscribe to the feed. A high positive delta means many people subscribe to the blog, but it's not linked to exceptionally often. The absolute value of the delta indicates the degree of skew between the two measures. (Note that positive vs. negative was simply a result of the order of the columns in the spreadsheet.)
In other words, some blogs skew very blogger-friendly (or, perhaps, simply "link-friendly",) but not very reader-friendly. For example,
Doc Searls' weblog is in the top 25% of linked blogs, but is barely within the list of the top 100 read blogs. In contrast,
Lawrence Lessig's blog is in the top third of all read blogs, but receives fewer links than 95% of the top linked blogs.
So, bloggers: how friendly are you? And what
kind of friendly is that, exactly?
Walter GR @ 7:00 PM, March 20, 2005
I tried to come up with some catchier terms than "blogger-friendly" and "reader-friendly", but nothing came to mind. Any ideas?
Walter GR @ 7:10 PM, March 20, 2005
And, FYI, I was being serious when I wrote "highly unscientific" and sarcastic when I wrote "extremely serious number crunching." It would be much better to use a single source that had both subscription and linking rankings.
@ 6:58 PM, November 28, 2005
Walter GR @ 7:00 PM, March 20, 2005
@ 6:58 PM, November 28, 2005