Posted on 20 November 2011.
A few changes over last week. Too Conservative and Black Velvet Bruce Li had pretty good weeks according to the ranking services.
22 out of 34 Right Leaning Blogs improved over the previous week (65%)!
9 out of 17 Left Leaning Blogs (53%) improved in relation to the same blog’s score last week.
Overall, 31 out of the 51 Blogs we track improved – 61%.
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Posted on 14 November 2011.
After a couple of weeks of fighting the fact that several of the ranking sites have either been down or made changes to their site that I had to rewrite my data harvesting routines, everything is finally back on track. Last week, Compete made several changes and I was able to fix it, so the standings for last week verses this week are correct.
With the elections out of the way, I should have more time to concentrate on producing these standings on a weekly basis.
The lefty blog Not Larry Sabato moved up a spot to the # 4 … Read the rest
Posted on 23 October 2011.
The weekly Virginia Political Blog rankings have been compiled. There was a bit of a shuffle in the top 10 as Virginia Right! moved to #1 and Too Conservative moved from 9th to 8th place showing an 80% increase.
On the Conservative end of the Blogosphere, 19 out of 34 blogs improved (56%) and on the Left, 5 of 17 improved (29%).
Overall, 24 out of the 51 blogs we track im proved over last week (47%).
Posted on 16 October 2011.
It has become quite common that one or more of the ranking sites decided to either go down completely or have major issues just when my software kicks off on Sunday mornings to gather the rankings for the (now) 51 Virginia blogs I track each week. And even when the sites all cooperate, it seems that one or more has decided to make a change to their web page where the rankings are posted.
Which means that it is a constant battle.
In order to allow for an occasional outage of a site, I have added added Quantcast to the … Read the rest
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Posted on 25 September 2011.
The Blog Rankings are out for 9/25/2011! While I have managed to gather the data the past couple of weeks, a number of obstacles have managed to make things a bit more difficult.
As soon as we got our lights back on from the hurricane, it seems that it has been one thing after another. I moved my business to a new location and did much of the work myself, with my family. So my time has been monopolized by that.
And if that were not enough, it saems that several of the ranking engines have made changes, had outages, … Read the rest
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Posted on 11 September 2011.
Finally back in the swing of things with the blog rankings. The week of 8/28/2011 was a wipe-out due to Hurricane Irene and the week of 9/4/2011 was the Labor Day weekend and I was busy moving my business office from one location to another about 3 blocks away. We had been in the same shopping center for 9 years, and it was time for a move. I did make the effort to compile the rankings last weekend, but one of the ranking engines (Compete) made major changes and I had to rewrite the software I use to grab the … Read the rest
Posted on 21 August 2011.
There seems to have been an algorithm tweak at Compete.com this week. Several rankings were pulled downwards by the change, but there was not a lot of downward movement due to their change. There was some upward movement in several blogs that were previously not ranked, which have now been added to the Compete rankings.
VB Dems was one such blog added to Compete this week. As a result, they jumped 651% and rose from #38 to #16 making them the Most Improved Political Blog of the week.
For the week, 22 of 37 Right Leaning Blogs improved (59%) and … Read the rest
Posted on 14 August 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 8/14/2011 are out!Several blogs (finally) took our advice and registered for Technorati and moved up quite a bit in the rankings as a result.
This week’s Most Improved Virginia Political Blog Award goes to The Green Miles which rose 432% compared to the previous week and this translated to an upward move of 24 slots from #45 to #21. Green Miles was also one of three Blogs who were unlisted on Technorati last week and took the time to get listed (which is FREE and the information is available by clicking the BlogRank … Read the rest
Posted on 07 August 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 8/7/2011 are out!The rankings have been trimmed down to only the top 50 most active blogs. If you are the owner of a blog that has been removed from the top 50, please let me know if you return to actively blogging. While there is no hard and fast rule (yet) on what constitutes an active blog, certainly more than one per month is in order. When I began to weed out inactive blogs, I used a 90 day guideline to declare a blog inactive. What I have found is that there were … Read the rest
Posted on 01 August 2011.
We thinned out some of the less active blogs and brought the total number of ranked blogs to 50. There were a number of blogs that have new posts only rarely and there was not much point in ranking them on a weekly basis.
Most of the rankings remained fairly steady, but there were one or two who fell in the Technorati rankings to not being listed, so they had a significant decline in these rankings as a result.
Also, as more data has been collected, the “penalty” for not being … Read the rest
Posted on 24 July 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 7/24/2011 are out!The blogs were relatively stable this week in relation to last week’s standings. The only change in the top 20 was SWACGirl moving from number 19 to number 18.
This week’s Most Improved Blog Award goes to VirginiaDem, improving 10.7%
This week, 9 out of 20 Lefty Blogs improved (45%) and only 9 out of 45 Righty Blogs improved (20%).
Overall, 18 out of 65 Virginia Blogs improved (28%).
Here are the rankings, and as always feel free to Contact me with comments, questions or suggestions.
Posted on 17 July 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 7/17/2011 are out!Virginia Right! moved into the #1 slot for the first time. Yes, I do the rankings, but this is an average of 4 ranking sites, so the results are posted by each ranking engine. We simply average the results. The past few weeks have been very active on Virginia Right! with links on Politico, the 700 Club, and rense.com as well as featured links from Beforeitsnews.com and Freedom’s Phoenix. Fellow blogger Sandy Sanders has been busy exposing ICLEI which has caused quite a stir on the internet, as have the exposure … Read the rest
Posted on 10 July 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 7/10/2011 are out!The rankings remained stable this week in the top 20 positions with no changes at all until position 18. There were also no new blogs who took the advice in the FAQ to list their sites in all of the ranking engines – in particular Technorati.
This week’s Most Improved Political Blog award goes to I’m Surrounded By Idiots who was up 6.28% over last week and rose 2 positions from #35 to #33.
And just a note on the Upwards and Downwards percentages. There are a few blogs showing an … Read the rest
Posted on 05 July 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 7/3/2011 are out!Apologies for the tardiness of this week’s rankings. The “snapshot” was taken on Sunday as usual, but I was out of state for the 4th of July Holiday and was unable to find the time to post.
But there are some significant changed in the rankings!
It looks like a few of the blogs followed the advice in the FAQ document and listed their blogs in the various ranking engines. And it paid off. Last week, 41 blogs were not listed in Technorati and that number is now down to 37 … Read the rest
Posted on 26 June 2011.
This is the second week for Blog Rank 2.0 so comparisons to last week’s rankings will be more accurate.
We have also created a Blog Rank Frequently Asked Questions page which should answer all of your questions about how the blogs are ranked and what you can do to improve your ranking. This FAQ has also been added as a menu item below the logo above.
You will also notice a new menu item called BlogRank which links to all of the previous rankings.
A new addition this week is Dem … Read the rest
Posted on 19 June 2011.
As most of you know, I have been compiling a weekly ranking of the political blogs in Virginia since the first of the year. But I began doing research to try to come up with a fair and accurate way of doing a ranking several months before I began doing the rankings. One of the first thoughts I had on the project was to use a free service called Sitemeter that several blogs already use, and the thought was that I could persuade those that don’t already use Sitemeter to do so. But when I looked into the free version … Read the rest
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Posted on 13 June 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 6/12/2011 are out!
Bearing Drift maintains the first place spot by a slim margin as All Politics is Local (Vivian Paige) climbs back up to number two, moving ahead of Virginia Right!
Several blogs moved a couple of spots, but the one that stands out as This Week’s Most Improved Blog is SW Va Law Blog improving 403% over last week.
That equates to 10 spots in the standings (from #74 to #64) for the winner’s spot!
This week, 9 out of 22 Lefty Blogs improved (41%) and 15 out of 52 Righty Blogs … Read the rest
Posted on 06 June 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 6/5/2011 are out!
Vivian Page’s All Politics is Local has been the #1 ranked blog since these rankings began the first of the year (2011). This week, All Politics is Local drops two spots to #3 as Bearing Drift moves up a spot into first place.
Several blogs moved a couple of spots, but the one that stands out as This Week’s Most Improved Blog is What is Right for Virginia improving 385% over last week.
That equates to 5 spots in the standings (from #71 to #66) for the winner’s spot!
This week, … Read the rest
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Posted on 29 May 2011.
The Virginia Political Blog Rankings for 5/29/2011 are out!
Several blogs moved a couple of spots, but the one that stands out as This Week’s Most Improved Blog is On the Right in Virginia improving 221% over last week. This is the second week in a row! I manually checked the figures and they are correct. Despite being relatively inactive, something is making this blog improve in most of the ranking engines. Perhaps there are some links to the tribute posts.
That equates to an unprecedented 30 spots in the standings (from #48 to #18) for the winner’s spot!
This … Read the rest
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