Managed to stay on or near the top all year of Web Analytics Blogs, regardless of how they're being measured; in Top Ten Web Analytics Blogs: July 2007 Avinash Kaushik has Webmetricsguru as the #3 top Web Analytics Blog using a new ranking system designed by Kevin Hillstorm; Avinash adapted Hillstorm's formula somewhat but kept the main part of it.
"..For my best web analytics blogs ranking I am using Technorati and Feed Subscribers. I have come to appreciate the number of feed subscribers as the best success metric for a blog (see: Tips For Measuring Success Of Your Blog).
My feed subscribers is hovering around 1400 right now and I have an average visit count of around 1000 per day (unless I write about something that ends up driving extraordinary traffic - which has happened a lot lately). I don't pay much attention to my Technorati rank either, to me it's becoming irrelevant - but that's just my opinion. Here's the top 10 Web Analytics Blogs:
Rank July ‘07 Rank July ‘06 Top Web Analytics Blogs Score 1 3 Occam’s Razor
by Avinash Kaushik88 2 New Google Analytics Blog
by Jeff Gills86 3 1 Web Metrics Guru
by Marshall Sponder79 4 New Web Analytics World
by Manoj Jasra72 5 New WebAnalytics.be Blog
by Aurélie Pols53 6 New Analytics Talk
by Justin Cutroni51 7 4 Unofficial Google Analytics Blog
by Shawn Purtell49 8 New Lies, Damned Lies…
by Ian Thomas46 9 5 Increasing Your Website’s Conversion Rate
by Robbin Steif46 10 New The Commerce360 Blog
by Craig Danuloff44
I read half the blogs on the top list anyway, and can now post to Web Analytics World - just haven't gotten around to it yet!
Eric Peterson posted a comment to Top Ten Web Analytics Blogs: July 2007 suggesting Avinash drop Technorati Rank out of the equation - I tend to agree with Eric on this - it's not so much that Technorati is wrong - it's that a lot of sites, including mine, have periods of time where Technorati does not update it's records properly. Personally, I'd like to see what the list looks like with out Technorati, with just FeedBurner RSS Subscribers.... but that's just me.
Marshall,
I'm not sure if you saw the longer post I did last night (ironically) just before Avinash updated his list but you can read it on my web site. I did a little analysis of how your authority ranking and how it appears to be affected by KnowMoreMedia --- I suspect you were already well aware of the impact.
I just saw that Dennis Mortenson of Indextools suggested that Avinash add in Google search results for the phrase web analytics blog which produces an entirely different set of results.
All I know is I was kinda surprised to see so many strange entries in Technorati's basis for ranking given that the same problem makes my blog essentially un-rankable. C'est la vie!
Glad to hear your social media meeting went so well and I look forward to seeing the output!
Sincerely,
Eric T. Peterson
http://www.webanalyticsdemystified.com
Posted by: Eric T. Peterson | July 27, 2007 8:51 PM | Permalink to Comment