These are the blogs that make it into the top 100 000 ranking on Technorati.
They are competing with about 70-million other blogs, so being popular or widely read only in South Africa is not likely to get them this ranking. In other words, these are more than likely blogs that have a worldwide readership.
If you know of any blogs that should have been included in this list, please let me know in the comments or by emailing me. And no, I do not know why three blogs happen to tie at 78 076.
Congrats to all those listed, and keep blogging!
SA blogs that make it into the top 100 000 on Technorati. (Rank follows title).
1. Marcos Blog 5 114
2. Tectonic 9 521
3. Adii 10 735
4. Cherryflava 11 541
5. Ninja Monkeys 11 709
6. Afrigadget 14 719
7. So Close 15 851
8. Vinny Lingham 19 467
9. SA Rocks 19 737
10. Angel’s Mind 20 175
11. Cape Town Daily Photo 21 271
12. Marketing Geek 26 968
13. The Times Planet Blog 29 176
14. Clickatell 32 015
15. Hunter of Genius 33 440
16. The Vegan 34 433
17. Matthew Buckland 35 254
18. Vincent Maher 36 090
19. Aquilla Online 37 234
20. Architectradure 38 561
21. The Sovereign Journey 39 249
22. Nic Haralambous 41 735
23. Mike Stopforth 42 700
24. Eric Edelstein 42 935
25. Dotnet.org 44 509
26. iScatterlings 46 556
27. Champage Heathen 51 481
28. Ti99er’s Tale 52084
29. Don’t Ever Stop Chewing 52 103
30. Notes from Underground 52 715
31. Thought Leader 53 381
32. With Malice 54 071
33. Trials and Tribulations of an involved guy 56 239
34. The Muso 60 930
35. O Oui 61 772
36. Price of Leadership 64 334
37. Moonflake 67 885
38. Memoirs of an Ex Christian 66 914
39. Bullog at The Times 68 802
40. Wired Gecko 69 776
41. Yblog 74 117
42. Durzblog 77 498
43. Your Group of Web Addicts 78 706
44. Stii.za 78 706
45. Protocol in Practice 78 706
46. Tyler Reed 78 706
47. Chilibean 82 595
48. Chump Style 86 966
49. Jo’Blog 97 290
50. It’s almost Supernatural 97 290
51. Eish! 97 290
Update: I have been informed by people who are far smarter than me when it comes to the online stuff that more than one blog can have the same technoratti ranking. In other words, the Top 100,000 could potentially be made up of double that number, or even more. This explains why three of the blogs above have an identical ranking.
Nevertheless, the Top 100K is a good place to be!
Eve
Wow this is very interesting and so good to see us all doing so well in the rankings.
Yes, I probably share the same slot with 200 other sites. But Technorati is up to its glitchy tricks again and the methodologies they employ are slipping in terms of reliability.Google is fast becoming the standard mong those in the know.
So everyone better get to grips with the Google ways of ranking. As long as I keep up the monthly shipment of Guava juice n biltong (a virtual lobolla)to them they will ensure I appear somewhere reasonable.
I dropped to 135,000th at Technorati a few months back but worked out the way to crawl my way back into favour with the Technorati bots. The bots like cheddar cheese and cocktail sausages on sticks left for them at the site entrance! So why would I not leave them a hoard to enjoy each day?
Thanks for the list Be assured that we will see more S African bloggers climbing the rankings to the higher echelons.
Ciao!
Rob,
I certainly hope that next month the title of the companion post will be “SA’s Top 75 blogs” or something like that.
Technoratti does have a funny way of ranking, though. Some of the blogs above have not been updated in a month, yet climbed up tens of thousands of ranks in the last couple of weeks. Go figure.
Great blog, btw.
very cool indeed! thanx for the research… although in terms of readership i rank waaaaaay further below blogs like “so close”- but this makes me look good!
Update: Vincent Maher’s blog (vincentmaher.com/mit) is ranked 25,855 which places him at Number 12. Everybody below that shifts down one.
Hi Eve
Thanks for drawing attention to this – isn’t it great that we can play in the big league?
I am a South African food blogger living in London and I do believe I also qualify to appear on this list – my ranking seems to be 41 345
Would be great to be added!
shite… what happened! i just lost a bunch of links and suddenly i’m down to 45 thousand and something!!!
Angel,
Shite happens especially if you rely on Technorati!
And no sooner said than I drop to the 56,000 level!
I give up!
and i plummeted again… maybe i should take it personally?
Nice list good to see Adii right up there..
Angel,
You and me can take it personally! I’ve never known a ranking site to be so inconsistent.
I am sueing them for the trauma they cause me. Seeing me freefall thousands of spots at a time is enough to convert anyone to drugs, booze and depression!
Is there a book titled: How To Be A Champion Blogger?
How about a book called: How to be a Champion List Diver?
Or: How To Rant and Rave Your Whole Life
heh heh…
i reckon technorati must write us a book on how to be a list diver…
as for suing- make it class action robert, and i’ll join you 0;-P
Nick,
If you need a contributor to the book you know you can call me right?!
But is there money to be made from ranting? Anyone know know someone who became a millionaire from ranting?