Friday, August 1, 2008

Ranking the SBC Blogs

Ever wondered how to measure the popularity of your favorite SBC blog? Technorati is one site that provides such information. They currently rank about 120 million blogs. How's your favorite SBC blog doing? Here are a few rankings of active SBC blogs from Technorati.

UPDATE (8/2/08): Added Ed Stetzer and Micah Fries' blogs.

Ed Stetzer- Rank: 7,350
Provocations and Pantings - Rank: 14,246
Reformissionary - Rank: 17,893
Founders Ministries - Rank: 22,269
Joe Thorn - Rank: 26,508
Said at Southern - Rank: 50,468
Micah Fries- Rank: 65,915
SBC Outpost - Rank: 72,782
SBC Today - Rank: 84,122
Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee - Rank: 104,170
Between the Times - Rank: 105,966
SBC Voices - Rank: 111,870
Praisegod Barebones - Rank: 174,802
Joining God in His Work - Rank: 187,157
SBC Impact - Rank: 207,280
Downshore Drift - Rank: 211,008
SBC Tomorrow - Rank: 306,067
Southern Baptist in NC - Rank: 472,152

These are just a sampling of some of the most popular SBC blogs. There may be others which I overlooked. If so, let me know in the comments. Also, if anyone knows of a better blog ranking site than Technorati I'd like to hear from you too.

23 comments:

chadwick said...

Les,

We, at chadwickivester, are dead to the SBCBloggosphere . . . but are interested in how bad we bombed! :D

chadwick

Les Puryear said...

Chad,

According to Technorati.com, your blog is ranked #787,635.

Les

Micah Fries said...

Les-

I'm hurt man. You forgot me.;-)

Les Puryear said...

Micah,

Ooops! Sorry about that. You're on now.

Les

Micah Fries said...

Les-

One more, edstetzer.com - I haven't checked it out on technorati yet but I'm guessing it's pretty popular.

chadwick said...

Les,

This proves that chadwickivester is dead to the sbcbloggosphere!

Christ must increase . . . chadwickivester must decrease!:D

chadwick

Les Puryear said...

Micah,

As usual, you're right again. Got Ed on too.

Chad,

I don't think you're dead to the blogsphere, you just need to post on a more regular basis. I read your blog.

Les

chadwick said...

Les,

We, at chadwickivester, want to be dead to the SBC Bloggosphere . . . we may post a farewell post: chadwickivester's exit strategy! :D

chadwick

Alan Knox said...

Les,

Very interesting. Thanks for the info.

-Alan

Joe Kennedy said...

i'm baptist but i don't blog the sbc... which saves me a lot of stress. happily i came in well off the list at 564,046.

Quinn Hooks said...

*fade in* I am in stealth mode! Technorai can't even find me! *fades out until invisible*

Kevin Stilley said...

A quick check of the Alexis rank for these sites indicates that traffic to these sites is different than what one would expect from the Technorati rank. It would seem there are different kinds of influence as well as different levels of influence.

Alan Cross said...

That's pretty interesting. Actually, my rank is 141,953, but who's counting, right? In great humility, I only care about the accuracy of your post, brother, not a higher ranking for yours truly.

Yeah right.

:)

J. R. Miller said...

I am an SBC church planter and my blog, More Than Cake is ranked 190,181

Kyle said...

The 9 Marks Blog "Church Matters" ranked 9,771.

Les Puryear said...

Alan Cross,

Apparently, Technorati's numbers change according to the variables of traffic to each blog. The numbers I posted were all revewed on the same day. You may go up or down in the ranking.

Kevin,

What is Alexis and how do I get there?

J. R.,

Thanks for letting us know about your blog. It looks like a great site and I will add you to my bloglines.

Kyle,

Thanks for the reminder about 9 Marks. I have always been unsure how to classify Dever's blog. It's seems to be associated with the 9 Marks organization, rather than a pure church blog. However, I may be mistaken in how it's viewed by others.

Les

jason allen said...

not that it matters too much but my blog is ranked 162,882. But I'm sure there are other SBC blogs not on your list that are higher than mine anyway...

Quinn Hooks said...

Les,
You have hit the big time! Ed has linked to your post!

Les Puryear said...

Jason,

I was not aware of your blog. It looks very interesting and I am adding you to my bloglines.

Thanks for commenting.

Les

jason allen said...

Les,

ditto.

Saw this post via Stetzer.

Anonymous said...

It's alexa, not alexis.

http://www.alexa.com/

atheist lurker

J. R. Miller said...

Les, thank you brother.

Pastor Tim said...

Brand new blogger here. I am not even in the top three in my own house yet, but enjoying this discussion.

Tim
www.musingaboutministry.blogspot.com