Posted 3/27/08 - Kellex
Welcome to the first edition of our Top 50 Sports Blog Rankings!
The Sports Dollar's Top 50 Sports Blog Rankings are in and will be released on a quarterly basis with updates accordingly.
The ranking system was based on 4 factors: the blog's BallHype ranking converted into a scale from 1-10 (10 being the highest), the blog's Technorati ranking converted into a scale from 1-10 (10 being the highest), the blog's Google PageRank, and the blog's Alexa ranking converted into a scale from 1-10 (10 being the highest). If two blogs have equal scores, a tie-breaker was decided based on their Technorati authority.
Top 50 Sports Blog Rankings: 1st Quarter 2008
*You may notice a few blogs dropping a little lower than you would have expected. The reason, a lack of a Technorati ranking. This may irritate some, but the fact is that this is a list of blogs and the number one blog ranking machine is Technorati. The Yahoo blogs have also been left off due to a lack of Google PageRank and Technorati ranking. ESPN sites were left on since most have Google PageRanks.
22 comments:
No SportsWrap? Come on.
SportsWrap
I hope to be on this list one day, Sports $ Man.
What? I'm not on the list...that's a disgrace (well, for me at least).
One day my young ones!
Alexa.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com. It is a website which provides information on traffic levels for websites. The Alexa rank is measured according to the amount of users who’ve visited a website with the Alexa toolbar installed. Alexa toolbar is an application developed by Alexa Internet. Its primary use is to measure website statistics. This toolbar collects as well as gives some valuable information. Once you install it, the Alexa toolbar monitors all your surfing and collects information about what domains you visit. They use this data to rank web sites. The traffic rank they assign to websites is based on 3 months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of other users and is a combined measure of page views and users. Webmasters, advertisers and ad networks use your blog’s Alexa rank as a gauge to determine the worth of a link on your website. If you depend on link or site selling as a form of monetization you’ll definitely want to increase your Alexa rank, because it’ll increase your bargaining power when it comes to ad pricing.
I will be real interested to see if www.neswsports.com will make it on the next list. Top 50 would blow my mind.
My Google rank says 2 but I can tell Google has me as a 3 now.
Ballhype has had me in the top 60-100.
My Alexa is top 100-250k.
My Technorati is 100-200k and will grow.
I am just interested. Hit me with an email if I am close ethanjaynes-at-comcast.net . I know the next round of rankings is coming out soon.
That's 2 1/2 months hard work. Well.... as hard as blogging can be. :-)
When were the Ballhype rankings taken?
Using Alexa is a pretty shitty measure to use on sports blogs. Considering that the people that read sports blogs, meaning sports fans, probably wouldn't have the Alexa toolbar installed. And to use Ball Hype, their rankings have been proven to be gamed towards the big dogs. I think you, my friend, are a little out of touch here. Novel idea to make a MMO blog and put a flip on it, but you've just tried to mask yourself by adding sports to the title. You, my friend, are horribly out of touch. Where is the article on dealing with Sports Ticket brokers? Every sports blogger deals with them on a daily basis, where is the article telling us how much to charge, and how not to be gamed by them and their 10 paragraph anchor text? Come on man. Have you ever ran or sports blog, or did you just fail in the MMO niche and try to become a chamelon here?
Interesting opinion from another solid "anonymous" user that obviously has never read this blog or its hundreds of posts or guest blogs by well known sports bloggers.
Going back to sleep now.
Sir,
Yes, I am going to leave a private comment also, disable it if you don't like it. It's quite obvious that you are not the authority on these topics. I run a successful MMO Blog, all you are doing here is spewing ignorance. Look at the audience, do you really think Joe Sports fan has the Alexa toolbar installed? Why would they? Ball Hype is gamed horribly. You do run a sports blog, Le Basketball, it has a page rank of zero and 30 subscribers, are you really in a position to give advice on how to make money with a sports blog when yours has generated pennies? Are you really in a position to give SEO advice when you get zero search engine traffic? You don't even know how to cloak your affiliate ads so that you don't get penalized by google and so that they don't look spammy. Do some homework, go read Courtney Tuttles school of internet marketing and regeritate his posts, at least you'll look credible.
Once again you have no idea what you are talking about. Especially seeing as this is not an MMO blog. And my basketball blog has a PR5. And I haven't seen one person on here claiming to be the master.
I love MMO ego douchebags like you. I really do! If the internet is what you need to feed that ego, then keep spamming up your comments especially as "anonymous".
If that "successful MMO" blog is doing so well, I'm not understanding the need to hide.
Basically everything you've wasted your time writing about, has no relevance here. If this were an MMO blog, then maybe we could chat?
Then what is it? If it's not a MMO online blog, then what purpose do you serve? Isn't your catch phrase you can make money online with your sports blog? My mistake with the page rank thing, but your site still doesn't appear to be very successful. Your visitors aren't engaged, you only have 29 subscribers (which for some bizzarre reason you display proudly).
Here's what really gets me though, you just committed suicide to anyone with a brain. Why on earth would you admit that you are just learning? Ok, so you are openly admitted you don't know anything about making money with a sports blog, so why the hell am i going to listen to your advice?
If you get past the annoymous part, you'd realize that people are trying to help you succeed, but you don't know how to take the constructive criticism.
the rankings are cool, everyone likes rankings, but you got it twisted using Alexa. that doesn't translate well for you. Do a survey of the people on your list, I bet maybe 5 out of the 50 (at most) have the Alexa bar installed, the rest of them probably don't know what it is, and maybe 10 have heard of it.
MMO = Making Money Online?
regeritate = regurgitate?
Kellex has been open about being a beginner. My guess is that people are hanging around to learn what he learns as he learns it. The sports blogging community is pretty tight.
Hate to see hate.
Kellex, if there is a positive take-away from Anon Y. Mous, thank him and get on with your day.
Anon Y. Mous, you've given lots of feedback, which is what most bloggers dream about - open exchange, engaged readers, etc. I don't understand why you aren't disclosing your identity.
Now - let's head over to Court Rivals and Train, People, Train!!!!
I actually had typed up a whole response but what's the point?
You have said nothing worth anything to me or my readers, nothing new, nothing useful and nothing that anyone on this blog can use.
I really hope you are an MMO pro and that life goes really good for you and Courtney Tuttle. I hope the fraternity of MMO bloggers grows more tight because you took time out to to stop by here and share absolutely nothing with another blog.
I also hope that you continue to take time out of your day to comment on this blog because who doesn't love participation right?
I know that this blog is still growing and will continue to do so with the knowledge I have which at this point seems exactly on par with a lot of the MMO "pros".
Thanks again! Glad to have you as a reader! The next set of rankings will be out at the end of the week.
Oh and Carolyn, love ya as always.
Kellex - some of the advice here, both by you and by guest posts and links you've provided, has helped me make over $500 dollars in my first 3 months of having a Sports Blog. In my book, this site is a great place to go to learn about monetizing your Sports Blog.
I think one of the best things about this site as compared to traditional MMO sites is the fact that we are all learning together.
What I think Mr. Anonymous fails to see is the close knit community we have through The Sports Dollar and the Sports Blogger Pack. While we are basically writing for and competing with each other for the same group of readers, we have no qualms helping each other out in an area where there is no authoritative figure to tell you step-by-step how to make money.
But I do agree about the Alexa toolbar.
It's over man. Get over it. I appreciate you reading the blog.
So now you are gonna game the rankings when there are sites ranking higher and not let anyone know? I seriously hope you fix these errors the next time, you're doing everything all wrong. You got sites with higher scores than the ones on here and you won't let people know? I found an example with proof, what's your problem, I can't say hey, this site has a higher PR, and Alexa, and that alone gives it a 13, it should be ranking.
Seriously homeboy, I don't have time for your nagging. Why do you care about any of this? I did the rankings 3 months ago now and I could care less who comes in what place.
IT WAS FOR FUN........i'm so bored with you...bleh....and........zzzzzzzzz.
OK I have not seen the new rankings. If you can not give me new rankings, what are you good for, Besides advice? :-)
http://neswsports.com is now up to page rank 4. The ballhype rank fell though :-( That is the price of having 4 blogs.
I know I know...they were supposed to be out last week but it's looking like this Thursday. I'm adjusting the rankings a little bit...
I've actually taken the Alexa out and am looking at going with the new Google Ad Planner rankings.
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