May: Top 100 Parent Blogs and Bloggers

On the basis some of you might find it useful, here's the latest index of UK parent blogs and bloggers. There aren't too many places to find out about these sorts of blogs, but I think Mummy Blogging is becoming increasingly influential in the UK - for example, Disney recently flew seven UK parent bloggers out to its theme park to score lots of publicity.

Also, this is a very good opportunity for me to show off that I've learned to make tables in HTML. Feel free to step back from your computers in awe:

The Tots10 top British Parent Blogs and Bloggers:

Rank	Blog	Score	Change
1	Molly Chicken	682	NEW
2	Wife in the North	634	=
3	A Modern Mother	605	+5
4	Petite Anglaise	596	-3
5	Babyccino Blog	592	+2
6	Woman of Experience	592	+9
7	Alpha Mummy	578	-3
8	Crystal Jigsaw	578	-2
9	The Potty Diaries	566	+2
10	Notes from Inside my Head	562	=
11	Single Parent Dad	557	-2
12	Bringing up Charlie	524	+4
13	Nappy Valley	524	+23
14	Sticky Fingers	521	+4
15	Are We Nearly There Yet, Mummy?	520	+25
16	Little Mummy	517	+5
17	Jo Beaufoix	516	-14
18	Frog Blog	510	-14
19	Menopausal Old Bag	505	+9
20	Bambino Goodies	489	-8
21	Millennium Housewife	484	-4
22	Noble Savage	483	-3
23	Flower Fairies and Fairy Cakes	470	-1
24	More Than Just a Mother	468	+12
25	My Boyfriend is a Twat	465	-20
26	Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman	460	+3
27	Give Me The Booger	460	NEW
28	Nunhead Ramblings	449	+10
29	Bedside Crow	443	-16
30	Mother at Large	434	-5
31	Single and Surviving	413	+18
32	Motherhood: the final Frontier	412	+29
33	Cotton Pickin’ Days	407	-7
34	Keir Royale	401	+25
35	Breastfeeding Mums	399	-3
36	The Bush Babies	399	+6
=36	Maternal Tales	399	NEW
37	Man About the House	398	-23
38	Family Relationships Magazine	388	+34
39	You've Got Your Hands Full	388	=
40	Home Office Mum	384	-9
41	Dulwich Mum	380	-21
42	3 Kids No Job	377	-18
43	Family Affairs and Other Matters	374	-16
44	Being Lucy Diamond	363	+23
45	Mrs Trefusis	351	+19
46	Good Enough Mum	341	+7
47	Dulwich Divorcee	334	-6
48	Don’t Panic - RTFM	332	-3
49	Mum on the Verge	325	-16
50	Violet Posy	328	-13
51	Not Supermum	324	+3
52	Thames Valley Mums	319	-18
53	Nixd Minx	317	NEW
54	Midwife’s Muse	310	-29
55	Musings of a Juggling Mother	301	-25
56	Some Mothers Do Ave Em	300	+29
57	I Promise that I will do my Best	297	-11
58	A Confused Take That Fan	296	-10
59	39 and Counting	287	+1
60	Totsy’s Place from Talking Tots	282	+20
61	The Brinkster	279	-11
62	Live Otherwise	268	NEW
63	Smell of Little Pong	248	-7
64	Positive Parenting = Confident Kids	247	+9
65	WAHM BAM	242	-21
66	The Teen Coach	233	+3
67	The Baby Juggler	231	-1
68	Suffolk Writings	222	-13
69	Most/Least	221	-17
70	Posh Mum	220	-14
71	Brits in Bosnia	216	NEW
72	Married with Four	215	-9
73	Family of Five	205	NEW
74	Rosie Scribble	204	+8
75	Mom or Mum Wars	201	-24
76	Tales from the Naughty Step	198	-14
77	My Life Now	195	-30
78	Chelltunes	189	NEW
79	Family Treehouse	184	+8
80	London Mums Blog	179	NEW
81	Family Friendly Working	178	-21
82	Is That Me? How did it happen?	178	-7
83	Lemon Drizzle	171	-13
84	More to Life Than Laundry	163	-9
85	Mothers on the Verge	161	-20
86	Miss Meep’s Guide to Living	151	-18
87	Little Sheep Learning	137	-8
88	It’s a Mum’s Life	136	+3
89	Mothers Who Work	135	+11
90	Adventures of a Sleepless Toddler	130	-2
91	Diary of a Surprise Mum	127	-10
92	Milky Moo Moo	111	=
93	Pink Fairy Cake	110	-10
94	Mummo Mia	103	-5
95	Music Bugs	102	-5
96	Motherworld	78	-11
97	Jessica’s Trust	64	-4
98	Mum’s the Business	61	=
99	Perfectly Happy Mum	53	-4
100	Home Corner	7	NEW

What Do The Scores Mean?

100 blogs were  included in this month's index. Each blog was assigned a score from 1 (bottom ranked) to 100 (top ranked) in seven categories:

1. Technorati Authority: number of blogs linking to this blog in the last six months
2. Technorati Inlinks: number of inbound links, excluding self-referring hits
3. Yahoo Inlinks: number of inbound links in last six months (excl self-referring hits)
4. Google Blogsearch Hits: number of posts/links/weblinks in Google
5. Google Blogsearch Hits Recent: number of links from the last 30 days
6. Readers: number of subscribers based on Google Reader
7. HowSociable: the blogger's visibility outside the blog, measuring activity on sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

This meant a blog scoring the highest score in each of these categories would achieve a maximum score of 700 points. The lowest possible score was 7. They aren't perfect metrics but we thought that combining measurements from Google, Technorati and Yahoo ensures an accurate reflection of a blog's influence, while the inclusion of HowSociable clearly showed how the top bloggers use social media to boost their blog's profile

There are a couple of blogs on the index that haven't been updated in a few months, but still scored highly because of high numbers of residual links. We'd expect these links to reduce over time, and the blogs will fall down the index.

I do welcome suggestions of how to improve the Index, as well as suggestions of new blogs to include in the next index. The criteria for inclusion are simple: the blog must be by/about parents, be written by a British parent or a parent in the UK, and you need to score higher than someone already in the index.

Comments

[Jo]

Well done on your HTML table and yes, I did step back in awe.
I always try to see who's following who as you never know what kind of blog or stories you may come across.
So, thanks for the info.

[Rosie Scribble]

Many thanks for the mention, and for listing some great blogs.

[Liz]

Loving the HTML table! :) Thanks for the mention x

[Sally]

I know it's pathetic but I think that HTML table might be my greatest achievement this year.

Er, apart from the old parenting lark, obviously. That's going great guns, too.

[Dan]

I'm not sure if I've done this already, but if not I'd like my blog (http://allthatcomeswithit.com) to be included for consideration in the list.

Thanks.

[Joanne Mallon]

Hi Sally - Could you include ParentDish in your next index? Though it's written by 5 bloggers rather than a single person, so not sure if that counts. Anyway, have a look at http://www.ParentDish.co.uk I give good Agony Aunt.

[Milla]

how does one get considered for inclusion? It's just that at least one blogger on that list has written only one blog in the past year so I wondered what the criteria were. Totally impartially you understand! No interest at all, personally...

[Sally]

Hi Milla,

You just ask - I've already got you on the list for inclusion next time.

I think on this list only one blog hasn't been updated in ages, which is Posh Mum - and as I've explained to others, I suspect she'll drop off next time but scores relatively highly because there are so many links to the site.