The Wardman Wire

These are the preliminary Wikio overall rankings for UK blogs for October. The full set (which may change slightly) are due out soon after the end of the month. I have no idea how soon that will be.

These rankings are based on links from blog articles on monitored blogs, and that blogroll links are ignored. There have been some changes to the algorithm to take links from blogs over the previous 9 months into account (rather than 4), and the value attached to a link gradually reduces (on a straight line basis) as it gets older.

Top 30 Overall Ranking Blogs

1	Iain Dale’s Diary		+1
2	Guy Fawkes’ blog		+1
3	Liberal Conspiracy		+4
4	Blah! Blah! Technology		-3
5	xlab		+3
6	ConservativeHome’s ToryDiary		+3
7	The Devil’s Kitchen		+3
8	Liberal Democrat Voice		+11
9	politicalbetting.com		+5
10	Labourhome		+10
11	normblog		+1
12	Dizzy Thinks		+23
13	John Redwood’s Diary		+23
14	EU Referendum		+3
15	Nick Robinson’s Newslog		+24
16	Chicken Yoghurt		+6
17	Mr Eugenides		+4
18	Re-cycle of Life		+20
19	Tim Worstall		+6
20	Stumbling and Mumbling		+51
21	Benedict Brogan’s political blog		+20
22	The Wardman Wire		+4
23	Bad Science		+14
24	Bloggerheads		+19
25	TechCrunch UK		-9
26	Burning our money		+21
27	The Guardian - The blog - Books		-22
28	ORDOVICIUS		+50
29	Pickled Politics		+2
30	Telegraph Blogs - Daniel Hannan		+14

Comment

What to say?

Those results are bouncing about like balloons at the Senedd, so I think the New Algorithm is taking some time to bed in.

If you know your political blogs, you will see that 17 out of the Top 20 (and 24 from 30 on this list) are Political Blogs. That may be slightly excessive in the long term (we’re not that popular).

Or to put it another way, if you have a good ranking and have someone in mind who is impressed by willies, start waving now just in case it gets chopped off next month.