That’s quite a bit of work you’ve done there Khalid, well done. The news blogs have a bit of an advantage in some areas like pages viewed and ability to draw traffic because they update so often, but it looks pretty balanced overall to me.

Excellent compilation!

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Pretty detailed way of doing the rankings, I’m not sure the Yahoo data about pages on the site is correct though.

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Patrick is right. Data is badly skewed, especially for the DaveN pages. (sneaky, dave, sneaky…grin).

Facinating numbers - and a pile of work! I think that here you’ve laid out an interesting formula by which any blogger could measure their own status (and changes to status, by way of progress over time). The ratio measurements (incoming links per page on site, for example) are particularly useful! But I am curious about the thought process behind the specific weights given to each of those factors in the final analysis: not questioning the percentages, mind you - just can’t help wondering how you arrived at them?

Thanks for the mention and all the work that went into putting this list together.

Jeremy

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WOW that’s an interesting collection. I’m intrigued by the combined scores of all these different factors.

My favorite metric is the links to pages ratio - great job Tamar. I think that shows a better idea of how well a site’s content can spark conversation and influence others, rather than absolute links that depends on # of posts and age of a blog.

I also find Matt Cutts’ # of pages commendable, seeing his blog is not multi-author.

I agree with Lee Odden. That was a lot of work. It was hard enough just to scroll all the way down to the comments. Speaking of which, shouldn’t the average number of comments per post and the overall ability to generate comments count for something? And finally, I can think of three blogs without even trying that were left out. Stephan Spencer Scatterings, Dosh Dosh, and Web Pro News. They may not be 100% dedicated to seo, but they should still make the top 25 SEO blogs.

Looks like the cream did rise to the top.

I like how you put these different scoring factors together I was hoping this wasn’t just going to name the same few we always see.

Your missing Beanstalk’s SEO blog under SEO Blogs by Pagerank it is a PR5. Cheers.

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@Lee Odden, glad you liked the post. This work ate up good chunk of last Saturday but I finally wrote a program to automate most of it now.

@rjleaman you ask very valid questions. I tried to balance value I assigned each factor based on how easy the blog can achieve that factor or how easy it is to manipulate it. I also used a little bit of analysis I had completed while working a while ago on a ranking program for a software company.

I think what is different in the calculation I did was to use a relative value based on the ranking the blog received amongst the top 25 blogs. So, ranking in the 1st position for RSS membership granted the blog more points than ranking in 1st position for number of incoming links.

I have been trying to come up with a good way to generalize the formula so any blogger can use it on their blog to relatively measure their success.

@Linda I thought Tamar did a great job in showing how to attract links to her posts. I have couple of other factors that measure the growth of a blog which I think getElastic wins hands down.

@Herb Firestone thanks for the comment. I will add these blogs to the list next time I redo the list. I came up with an automated way to generate the list so I hope it does not take me that long to regenerate it.

@SEO Canada I am starting to think I should remove Google PR or exclude blogs under PR of 6. any thoughts?

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Great compilation of blogs. Excellent work!

Great post on a subject dear to my heart (and wallet)

Great post. I appreciate this post. Thanks for sharing this post. Keep it up

I can think of three blogs without even trying that were left out.

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Thank you so much dare to share….
bunch of top quality content blog that should be subcribe and learn from it.@#$%……….

That is a really good thorough list and interesting to see who each category they rank differently for.

wow.. What a Great post..

Thanks for the top Blog website list.

A great list. And, an even better post. I am going to have check out every site on your list.

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Number really speaks. If you got a number of visitor, then your blog is effective. No more other criterion greater than this.

Really nice compilation of the top blog list..