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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



#1FanHouse
7
10
10
1037
#2With Leather
6
10
9
1035
#3The Big Lead68
109
33
#4SPORTSbyBROOKS
6
910
8
33
#5Baseball Prospectus6
8
9
932
#6D.C. Sports Bog6
10
9
732
#7Kissing Suzy Kolber6
8
8
931
#8Awful Announcing3
8
10
9
30
#9MLB Trade Rumors5
9
7
9
30
#10FanIQ Blog4
9
89
30
#11Blog Maverick6
8510
29
#12Fire Joe Morgan5
7
8
828
#13ProFootballTalk.com5
10
7
6
28
#14The Sporting Blog5
10
9
4
28
#15EDSBS6
7
5
826
#16The Hardball Times3
8
8
7
26
#17Deadspin6
10
10
0
26
#18ESPN.com - True Hoop6
10
9
0
25
#19The Offside
6
9
1
7
23
#2038 Pitches6
43
9
22
#21MetsBlog.com6
9
1
6
22
#22Baseball Musings4
5
7
6
22
#23Mr. Irrelevant6
4
6
6
22
#24Larry Brown Sports6
6
6422
#25LoHud Yankees Blog5
6
4
520
#26Slam Online5
82
4
19
#27Bugs & Cranks5
2
84
19
#28Home Run Derby4
4
6
4
18
#29Red Sox Monster5
91
3
18
#30Epic Carnival54
3
5
17
#31Football Outsiders5
7
1
4
17
#32You Been Blinded36
53
17
#33Minor League Ball3
7
1
4
15
#34The Wizard of Odds4
4
3
4
15
#35BBTF's Baseball Primer3
7
1
4
15
#36freedarko.com6
4
1
4
15
#37Dan Shanoff6
4
1
4
15
#38U.S.S. Mariner5
6
1
3
15
#39Deuce of Davenport6
2
4
2
15
#40Lion in Oil
5
3
43
15
#41The700Level.com
45
6
0
15
#42The Sports Hernia Blog5
4
1
4
14
#43Need4Sheed.com3
7
1
3
14
#44on 205th magazine0
743
14
#45Hardwood Paroxysm4
2
6
2
14
#46Reiss' Pieces3
10
1
0
14
#47Watchdog
3
10
1
0
14
#48Draft Express5
8
1
0
14
#49ESPN.com - Hashmarks0
10
4
0
14
#50Baseball Analysts
5
3
1
4
13

*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.


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5:54 PM | with 5 comments »

5 comments

  1. SportsWrap // March 28, 2008 2:33 PM

    No SportsWrap? Come on.

    SportsWrap

  2. Grey // March 28, 2008 6:30 PM

    I hope to be on this list one day, Sports $ Man.

  3. BlueWorkhorse.com // March 29, 2008 11:11 PM

    What? I'm not on the list...that's a disgrace (well, for me at least).

  4. kellex // April 6, 2008 4:35 PM

    One day my young ones!

  5. Anonymous // April 14, 2008 3:19 AM

    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.