The Viral Garden's Top 25 Marketing & Social Media Blogs - Week 123

Here's the standings for Week 123:

1 - Duct Tape Marketing - 209,000 (-16,000)(LW - 1)
2 - Church of the Customer - 200,000 (-14,000)(LW - 2)
3 - CopyBlogger - 41,110 (-1,538)(LW - 3)
4 - Search Engine Guide - 11,688 (-549)LW - 4)
5 - Chris Brogan - 8,831 (+82)(LW - 5)
6 - Influential Marketing - 6,665 (-366)(LW - 6)
7 - Daily Fix - 5,664 (-389)(LW - 7)
8 - Jaffe Juice - 4,848 (-199)(LW - 8)
9 - Logic + Emotion - 3,408 (-161)(LW - 9)
10 - Drew's Marketing Minute - 3,228 (-5)(LW - 10)
11 - Converstations - 2,971 (-177)(LW - 11)
12 - The Viral Garden - 2,915 (-165)(LW - 12)
13 - Conversation Agent - 2,713 (-43)(LW - 15)
14 - What's Next - 2,684 (-363)(LW - 13)
15 - Techipedia - 2,268 (-29)(LW - 16)
16 - The Social Media Marketing Blog - 2,094 (-84)(LW - 17)
17 - Emergence Marketing - 1,671 (-150)(LW - 18)
18 - Greg Verdino's Marketing Blog - 1,543 (-69)(LW - 20)
19 - The Social Customer Manifesto - 1,537 (-158)(LW - 19)
20 - Techno Marketer - 1,376 (-34)(LW - 21)
21 - Social Media Explorer - 1,358 (+9)(LW - 22)
22 - Spare Change - 1,218 (-56)(LW - 23)
23 - Movie Marketing Madness - 1,202 (-65)(LW - 24)
24 - Customers Rock! - 792 (-5)(LW - 25)
25 - Shotgun Marketing Blog - 659 (LW - UR)


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.

Only two blogs were up this week in the Top 25. I checked my own subscriber numbers and it seemed that Feedburner was reporting some flaky results for subscribers that were accessing my blog's feed via Bloglines. For example, on Sunday it surged up about 200 suddenly, then it's lost 300 since then. So if your numbers look off, check and see how your Bloglines numbers have been doing over the past few days.

Otherwise, Shotgun Marketing Blog is the lone new entry this week, with Biz Solutions Plus and Every Dot Connects just missing the cut. I noticed that Experience Curve had redesigned, and apparently doesn't have the Feedburner count chicklet anymore. Karl if you add that chicklet back, let me know and I'll be happy to put EC back in the Top 25. 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.