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Following on from my article about changes to Wikio rankings, the update has now happened.

The Wardman Wire is number 13 amongst UK Politics Blogs, and 26 amongst all UK Blogs - based on editorial links in from blogs monitored by Wikio over the previous 9 months.

There is more detail in the previous article, but my headlines all hold with minor changes, except that Nick Robinson is still in the Top 20.

1. Liberal Conspiracy is now number 3 (which puts it at no 7 in the rankings for “All UK Blogs”).
2. LibDem Voice is now ahead of Labour Home. Update: In Top 10 for all UK blogs.
3. Nick Robinson’s BBC Politics Blog has dropped (just) out of the Top 20 behind some Independents. Update: Still in Top 20 Politics Blogs.
4. Dizzy Thinks is at number 18 (now 16), having appeared from nowhere in the politics rankings last time.
5. The Wardman Wire is now number 14 (now 13) (18 under the previous system). Chicken Yoghurt has also advanced.
6. If Normblog were in the “Politics” not the “Other” category it would be in the Top 5 (now Top 6) in this list

That is assuming, of course, that you care about this stuff.

Yesterday I asked:

Reader question of the evening:

Why was “Twat-o-Thon” the top search term for sending people to Liberal Conspiracy in June?

And I hinted that the reason was not to do with Liberal Conspiracy itself. This article supplies the answer.

Here’s some food for thought first. The top search words on the same basis for some of the politics blogs on Wikio that I can test. I can only look at individual blogs that have their own second level domain, since that is the granularity of the compete.com figures.