The Viral Garden's Top 25 Marketing & Social Media Blogs - Week 138

Here's the standings for Week 138:

1 - Duct Tape Marketing - 132,000 (-129,000)(LW - 1)
2 - Church of the Customer - 120,000 (-129,000)(LW - 2)
3 - CopyBlogger - 52,927 (+859)(LW - 3)
4 - Web Strategy by Jeremiah - 20,165 (+447)(LW - 4)
5 - Chris Brogan - 19,848 (+1,055)(LW - 5)
6 - Search Engine Guide - 12,901 (+289)(LW - 6)
7 - Logic + Emotion - 12,543 (+273)(LW - 7)
8 - Influential Marketing - 8,787 (+283)(LW - 8)
9 - Daily Fix - 8,621(+352)(LW - 9)
10 - Brand Autopsy - 8,565 (+323)(LW - 10)
11 - Jaffe Juice - 4,788 (-42)(LW - 11)
12 - Conversation Agent - 4,312 (+171)(LW - 12)
13 - The Viral Garden - 3,935 (+85)(LW - 14)
14 - Drew's Marketing Minute - 3,911 (+51)(LW - 13)
15 - What's Next - 3,731 (+74)(LW - 15)
16 - Debbie Weil's Blog - 3,629 (LW - UR)
17 - Converstations - 3,565 (-30)(LW - 16)
18 - Being Peter Kim - 3,559 (+116)(LW - 18)
19 - Social Media Explorer - 3,270 (+118)(LW - 17)
20 - The Social Media Marketing Blog - 3,152 (+120)(LW - 19)
21 - Techipedia - 2,906 (+63)(LW - 20)
22 - Brand and Market - 2,190 (LW - UR)
23 - Emergence Marketing - 2,124 (+36)(LW - 21)
24 - Greg Verdino's Marketing Blog - 2,096 (+27)(LW - 22)
25 - Techno Marketer - 2,029 (+26)(LW - 23)


The Top 25 Marketing & Social Media Blogs are ranked by 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.

Some drama in the Top 10, as Chris Brogan is closing in fast on Jeremiah Owyang, Logic + Emotion is gaining on Search Engine Guide, and Daily Fix has almost pulled even with Influential Marketing. In fact, the Top 3 are pretty much cemented in place, but every blog after that is on the verge of jumping the one in front of them, or close to being jumped by someone behind them.

Two new blogs this week, as Debbie Weil's Blog along with Brand and Market join the Top 25. Paul Isakson's blog and The Social Customer Manifesto 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. And if you redesign your blog, make sure to keep the FB chicklet on there, or I can't track you for the Top 25.




Next update is next Wednesday.