The Viral Garden's Top 25 Marketing & Social Media Blogs - Week 130

Here's the standings for Week 130:

1 - Duct Tape Marketing - 256,000 (+3,000)(LW - 1)
2 - Church of the Customer - 244,000 (+3,000)(LW - 2)
3 - CopyBlogger - 45,286 (-449)(LW - 3)
4 - Web Strategy by Jeremiah - 16,874 (-150)(LW - 4)
5 - Chris Brogan - 13,108 (+273)(LW - 5)
6 - Search Engine Guide - 12,622 (-91)LW - 6)
7 - Logic + Emotion - 10,964 (+8)(LW - 7)
8 - Influential Marketing - 7,651 (-72)(LW - 8)
9 - Daily Fix - 6,417 (-25)(LW - 9)
10 - Jaffe Juice - 4,900 (-2)(LW - 10)
11 - Drew's Marketing Minute - 3,515 (+16)(LW - 11)
12 - What's Next - 3,346 (-53)(LW - 12)
13 - The Viral Garden - 3,298 (-26)(LW - 14)
14 - Converstations - 3,229 (-106)(LW - 13)
15 - Conversation Agent - 3,215 (-35)(LW - 15)
16 - The Social Media Marketing Blog - 2,491 (-2)(LW - 16)
17 - Being Peter Kim - 2,399 (-1)(LW - 17)
18 - Social Media Explorer - 2,127 (+118)(LW - 18)
19 - Emergence Marketing - 1,921 (-1)(LW - 19)
20 - Greg Verdino's Marketing Blog - 1,808 (-30)(LW - 20)
21 - The Social Customer Manifesto - 1,722 (-48)(LW - 21)
22 - Techno Marketer - 1,669 (-12)(LW - 22)
23 - Paul Isakson - 1,659 (LW - UR)
24 - Spare Change - 1,387 (+17)(LW - 23)
25 - Movie Marketing Madness - 1,355 (+36)(LW - 24)


The Top 25 Marketing & Social Media Blogs are ranked according to the number of subscribers, according to FeedBurner. The number you see after the blog name is how many subscribers accessed the blog's feed, according to FeedBurner. FeedBurner (and I had to look it up to make sure) tracks the number of times your blog's feed is accessed, and matches it against the IP address of the computer making the request, to approximate the number of subscribers that access your feed, and report this as the number used in the Top 25. After that number is a positive or negative number, and this represents how many readers the blog gained or lost from last week's Top 25. The final stat tells you what position the blog held in the Top 25 Last Week (LW). If you see this; (LW - UR), it means the blog wasn't ranked last week.

Sixteen of the blogs in the Top 25 were down this week, with only 8 being up. Interestingly, most of the downward moves were very small, 3 blogs lost only a subscriber or 2. Could this possibly be early affects of the seasonal dip in blog readership during the Holidays? Next few weeks should give us a better idea.

Paul Isakson's blog debuts in the Top 25 this week, and Customers Rock! just missed the cut. Remember if you want to have your blog be considered for inclusion in the Top 25, make sure you add the Feedburner feed count chicklet to your blog.

BTW please have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving with your friends and family!




Next update is next Wednesday.