Thursday, August 6, 2009

The new Wikio rankings for Lib Dem blogs



a href="http://charlottegore.com/2009/08/06/wikio-top-lib-dem-blogs-august-2009.html"Charlotte Gore/a has kindly extracted the list of Lib Dem blogs from Wikio's new top 100 for political blogs.br /br /It begins:br /br /5. a href="http://www.libdemvoice.org/"Liberal Democrat Voice/a Up 1 placebr /17. a href="http://markreckons.blogspot.com/"Mark Reckons/a Up 10br /21. a href="http://charlottegore.com/"Charlotte Gore/a Up 2br /32. a href="http://himmelgartencafe.blogspot.com/"Himmelgarten Cafe/a Up 4br /33. a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/"Liberal England/a Down 2br /br /As I have drifted down from second to fifth place in this list in recent months, it is time to insert a few caveats.br /br /The prominence that the Wikio rankings have recently attained is mainly down to their excellent promotion amongst bloggers - something I have been happy to help with. I generally use a href="http://technorati.com/blogs/liberalengland.blogspot.com?reactions"Technorati/a and a href="http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blogamp;fr=hamp;q=http%3A%2F%2Fliberalengland.blogspot.com%2Famp;x=51amp;y=14"IceRocket/a to see who is linking to me, and they usually give very different lists. So I don't know how comprehensive the Wikio list that generates these rankings is.br /br /Still there are some good things over at the Wikio site. The a href="http://www.wikio.co.uk/blogs/top/politics?start=20"listing for this blog/a provides a variety of tag cloud:br /blockquoteUK Politics • Parties • Liberal Democrats • Entertainment • The Parliament • Conservative Party • Music • Sport • Liberal Party • Rock and Pop • Liberal Democrats • Nick Clegg • Shropshire • Actors and Actresses • Labour Party • Lifestyle • Leicestershire • Government • England • The House of Commons/blockquoteThat provides a fair picture of this blog and, impressively, is not based on my own tagging.br /br /Wikio also gives what it says are the most linked to postings from this blog in July:br /ulliNorwich North was a triumph for Rennardism/liliRandom thoughts on the Norwich North result/liliThe Brampton Valley Way and a sign in Polish/li/ulThat is more puzzling, because I was not aware that anyone had linked to my Brampton Way post.br /br /Incidentally, I have fallen rather further in the list for all blogs, but that is because Wikio is not listing more non-political blogs. The preponderance of political blogs puzzled me when I was given the a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/06/june-wikio-rankings_03.html"exclusive preview/a in June.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-5415975208661482033?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div

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