Monday, June 05, 2006

The Viral Garden's Top 25 Marketing Blogs - Week 7

Here's the standings for Week 7, and these will be updated again next Monday.

1 - Seth's Blog - 8,662 (LW - 1)(+156)
2 - Creating Passionate Users - 17,614 (LW - 2)(-213)
3 - Gaping Void - 18,782 (LW - 3)(-368)
4 - Duct Tape Marketing - 18,825 (LW - 4)(-109)
5 - Marketing Shift - 47,142 (LW - 5)(-386)
6 - HorsePigCow - 50,966 (LW - 6)(-3)
7 - Coolzor - 83,053 (LW - 7)(+12)
8 - Church of the Customer - 85,730 (LW - 8)(-1060)
9 - What's Next - 89,400 (LW - 9)(-2,436)
10 - Brand Autopsy - 94,692 (LW - 10)(+317)
11 - Emergence Marketing - 100,914 (LW - 11)(+957)
12 - Beyond Madison Avenue - 122,289 (LW - 12)(+433)
13 - Jaffe Juice - 122,829 (LW - 13)(+3,572)
14 - The Viral Garden - 128,134 (LW - 14)(+3,649)
15 - Diva Marketing - 154,343 (LW - 15)(-4,531)
16 - Marketing Roadmaps - 166,816 (LW - 16)(-8,773)
17 - FutureLab's Blog - 169,176 (LW - 19)(+21,634)
18 - Marketing Headhunter - 179,661 (LW - 18)(+911)
19 - What's Your Brand Mantra - 186,524 (LW - 17)(-7,399)
20 - Network Marketing for Women - 226,297 (LW - 22)(+5,399)
21 - Pro Hip-Hip - Hip-Hop Marketing - 227,067 (LW- 21)(+3,814)
22 - Marketing Begins At Home - 239,458 (LW - 20)(-8,925)
23 - B2Blog - 269,059 (LW - 24)(-1,464)
24 - WonderBranding - 271,890 (LW - 23)(-8,317)
25 - Ageless Marketing - 312,226 (LW - UR)


SethGate has spilled over to the Top 25 Marketing Blogs list a bit, as I've had a few people mention that if Seth doesn't have a blog, that he shouldn't be ranked. If I were doing this list solely for myself, I might agree. But as I've always said, this is a project for The Viral Garden's community, and since I am a part of that community, I'm not going to pull Seth. I still think he's a very smart guy, as do most people. And many bloggers have zero problem with anything that happened this weekend, or with him not allowing comments. So there's no need to change anything. To be perfectly honest, I have much more important things to concentrate on than Seth's blog/website/online brochure.

As for the rest of the Top 25, there seems to be a rift developing between the Top 14 and the rest of the Top 25. That could change next week as we wait to see what type of bounce Diva Marketing gets from being featured as Typepad's 'blog of the day' for yesterday, and as FutureLab continues their hot streak. Ageless Marketing finally cracks the Top 25, after barely missing the last 3 weeks, so congrats to David.

As always, next update is next Monday.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Any way to get an OPML snapshot of the top 25?

Mack Collier said...

I'll see what I can do Andy.

Anonymous said...

Does http://www.mlmblog.typepad.com qualify as a marketing blog?

Kim Klaver said...

Mack:

The top 25 list is getting better from the bottom---first list had #25 ranked in the 400k level, and now #25 is in the 300k level.

So the rankings of the whole group are getting higher...

Nice!

Anonymous said...

I'm highly critical of Seth but I just want to say I agree with your decision not to boot him.

Mack Collier said...

Kim, you're exactly right. The Advertising Top 25 has moved up as well, #25 in the first list was around a million, now it's under 700K.

Clyde, thanks.