The Viral Garden's Top 25 Marketing & Social Media Blogs - Week 132

Here's the standings for Week 132:

1 - Duct Tape Marketing - 237,000 (-22,000)(LW - 1)
2 - Church of the Customer - 228,000 (-19,000)(LW - 2)
3 - CopyBlogger - 42,087 (-3,650)(LW - 3)
4 - Web Strategy by Jeremiah - 16,177 (-965)(LW - 4)
5 - Chris Brogan - 13,464 (-177)(LW - 5)
6 - Search Engine Guide - 12,319 (-766)LW - 6)
7 - Logic + Emotion - 10,654 (-367)(LW - 7)
8 - Influential Marketing - 7,110 (-574)(LW - 8)
9 - Daily Fix - 5,850 (-629)(LW - 9)
10 - Jaffe Juice - 4,564 (-341)(LW - 10)
11 - Drew's Marketing Minute - 3,413 (+492)(LW - 11)
12 - Conversation Agent - 3,117 (-205)(LW - 15)
13 - Converstations - 3,085 (-349)(LW - 14)
14 - The Viral Garden - 2,990 (-392)(LW - 13)
15 - What's Next - 2,757 (-514)(LW - 12)
16 - The Social Media Marketing Blog - 2,389 (-196)(LW - 16)
17 - Being Peter Kim - 2,353 (-64)(LW - 17)
18 - Social Media Explorer - 2,284 (+85)(LW - 18)
19 - Techipedia - 2,222 (LW - UR)
20 - Emergence Marketing - 1,673 (-263)(LW - 19)
21 - Techno Marketer - 1,613 (-87)(LW - 22)
22 - Paul Isakson - 1,607 (-57)(LW - 23)
23 - The Social Customer Manifesto - 1,583 (-196)(LW - 21)
24 - Greg Verdino's Marketing Blog - 1,487 (-369)(LW - 20)
25 - Spare Change - 1,271 (-131)(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.

As you'll notice, almost every blog was down this week. In checking my own Feedburner stats, I noticed that they haven't been reporting my numbers from Bloglines the last few days, and that's why my sub number is lower. A few days ago they missed my email sub numbers for a day as well, so if you're confused as to why your number is down, check your Feedburner account and see if they are reporting your Bloglines and email numbers. If not, that's probably where the change is coming from.

Techipedia re-enters the Top 25 at #19, while Movie Marketing Madness 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.




Next update is next Wednesday.