I’ve noticed that you hare having a hard time picking up RSS numbers for many sites, even if they have their numbers open and available from Feedburner. I’m guessing this might also be true with grabbing numbers from other sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, etc.

Have you made any progress in launching lists for more topic areas?

Hi Gary,

We do run into issues with feedburner not returning data back. But I would say that we fixed most of these issues at this point. Do you have specific examples for sites where feedburner stats are not correct.

We will be launching more topics over the next two weeks. The plan now is to ask for volunteers to help us edit some of the new categories.

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My site isn’t showing its RSS feed for one

Many of the sites listed that have N/A for their feed have the Feedburner chicklet.

I’d be glad to help find sites for the travel category.

Are you guys having any problems with wordpress.com reporting visitor stats for blogs hosted by their service to your ranking service? When I signed up my blog to your service it reported 0 unique monthly visitors to my blog.

@Gary I will look into that. Seems we are having problems with reading data from feedburner for some blogs.

@Chris if your blog is on a subdomain (blog.wordpress.com) or a sub page (site.com/blog), then we are not able to retrieve visitor information from Compete.com. We are working on a fix to that in the next few weeks.

Thanks for the quick response Khalid, I figured it was a wordpress.com issue.

Hi Khalid,
3 things

1) good work – congrats for all effords – It’s not just linkable but it’s a great source of information

2) Thanks for including marketingeasy.net

3) What’s the news around RSS counts?

Cheers
Lucio Ribeiro
marketingeasy.net
twitter.com@lucio_ribeiro

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You asked for examples where RSS numbers weren’t working. My blog just got added (thanks) and it has “0″ for the RSS membership. I’ve got my RSS subscribers via Feedburner posted right on my site. Not sure what’s up with the feed. Is there something I would need to do to make the number public so you can pull it?

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I really don’t get where the rankings come from on here. For example, your top ranked marketing blogs by Compete, Technorati, and Alexa ranks seem to be the lower half or more. My blog (http://www.doseofdigital.com) has a higher ranking than all of these (by quite a lot) for each of these. The top marketing blog by Compete rank has a rank of 354,268. My rank is 190,614. I’m by no means the most trafficked blog on the overall list, as many others would be way ahead of me. But using your numbers, I’d be number one for all of these rankings. Something isn’t right.

Is the ranking ever recalculated? I submitted my blog and it came out at 97 or so in the photography category, and I don’t think many things were considered. I was expecting a higher ranking based on what I know about my blog.

Google says I had 26,899 unique visitors in the last month which would put me in the top 10 on ranking alone.

Alexa ranks me at 138k on the 3 mo avg

Anyway, I was just wondering if they get recalculated or if it is a one time thing?

Thanks – interesting concept you’ve got.

Hello everyone and thanks for the feedback. The issue with feedburner numbers is fixed at this point.

@Jonathan Richman

Not sure if we are looking at the same numbers. The top marketing blog has a compete score of 35,242 and an alexa score 51,265. However these are only 2 of the 20+ factors we evaluate. So, while you might outrank one of the top blogs in some of the factors, they will most likely outrank you in many others.

@ planetMitch
The ranking get recalculated daily. We rely on compete to report the monthly visitors. Compete is not always accurate however this inaccuracy is consistent across different blogs. So, if compete is reporting only 20% of your traffic, you can expect it to report 20% of the other blogs in the same category.

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Just found this through a hit to my blog from this site. I see that I’m not showing up in the ranking list for number of feed subscribers – I do use Feedburner and have been for about a week or so now. Does it take awhile for that to be picked up on?

Great list. Like Gary has mentioned there seems to be an issue with the feeds. Here`s mine …. maybe it can be manually added / edited.

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/neilduckettdotcom

Cheers!

ND

Excellent list including a few new ones to me. The compete numbers are weird but that is with them, not you. Similarly my feedcount isn’t recorded and is on a chicklet on my site. The feed is:

feeds2.feedburner.com/TravelWondersOfTheWorld

Thanks

Mark H

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My RSS subscriber number is showing up as n/a for the Cheapest Destinations blog. I’m guessing it’s the subdomain issue. It’s close to 900 most weeks though, which would significantly affect my ranking.

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Thank you Khalid for putting this together. I am putting together a piece on MuslimMatters to highlight this effort (and it is just not because we are #1 in Islam but also for the merits of this ranking).

I am puzzled by the Technorati data shown… it is off by about 120,000 for our blog. Check it out.

Thx again.

actually,

most of the numbers for my blog are off by a few… and i do have feedburner and technorati and all the others ranks, but still showing as NA. unique visitors, etc. is also off.

any way to make sure you get the right data? i know i have one of the top blogs for customer service but it shows me as 32nd here…

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My RSS feed shows none and yet I do have a dozen subscribers. It may not be a big deal, but since it’s in ranked 46th in Classical Music blogs with no subscribers a dozen might actually improve my score.

Thanks

I know you had about 20,000 blogs listed when you first started, but how many do you have now? I am ranked 58th in parenting and it would help if I knew how many blogs are in the parenting category to know if that is good or not.

I’m not sure how Unique Visitors is tabulated either. I had 8,874 visitors last month and since Sitemeter doesn’t count me as a visitor I can’t believe they were not several thousand unique visitors.

Is there code that we can add to our html that will help with your stats (either for visitors, rss feeds, Propeller submissions – it shows none for Interchanging Idioms and yet I found several dozen the other day)???

Thanks,

Chip

I have noticed that alot of actual websites and forums have added themselves to your BLOG rankings. They don’t even have a blog. This skews the ranks for the real blogs that. Will you be cleaning that up?

It doesn’t seem to be fare to give all blogspot’s blogs Alexa Rank = 7. It skews the overall rankings.

Also, I noticed, RSS memberships are still not calculated correctly (shows N/A) for many blogs which do have subscribers.