Weekend Fun – Domain Blog Rankings
September 14, 2008 · Print This Article
The well known and respected SEOMoz company has come out with a new tool to measure a blog’s popularity, known as the Trifecta. According to SEOMoz, the Trifecta tool measures metrics to estimate the relative popularity and importance of a blog. It does this by measuring factors such as the number of incoming links a blog has, how often a blog is mentioned on the web, and how much traffic a blog receives.
I thought it would be fun to apply this tool to domaining blogs and see what the results are. So, I went through my list of blogs in the domainersphere and looked up the Trifecta score for each of them.
I thought the results were pretty interesting. The top blog is, without much surprise, the DNJournal Lowdown. A strong second place contender is The Frager Factor.
Also, when you look at the top scoring blogs, there is not really any surprise about which ones are in the top group.
A lot of blogs with lower scores are new blogs, and I am sure that their scores will improve rapidly over time. The Namebio blog had a really low score, and I think this is because Justin changed the url over the last few days.
Obviously, the Trifecta tool is far from perfect and it has its limitations.
Without further ado, here are the rankings:
40 – 49
48 DNJournal
46 The Frager Factor
30 – 39
39 DomainTools Blog
37 DotSauce
36 CircleID
36 ICANN Blog
36 Inside Domaining
34 Domain News
34 dotMobi
34 Fractional Domaining
34 Logistik Labs
31 Domain Name News
30 Dot Ca Domains
20 – 29
27 Domain Name Dispute Blog
27 DNXpert
27 Elliot’s Blog
26 Seven Mile
26 The Domains
25 Whizzbang’s Blog
24 Anti-Cybersquatting Blog
23 Dev Mobi
23 Domain Bits
23 Rick’s Blog
23 Rick Latona
21 4 Letter Noob
21 Domain Flipper
20 Domainer’s Gazette
20 Dominik Mueller
10 – 19
19 Scott Fish
19 Domain Magnate
18 Direct Navigation
18 Dot Weekly
17 Simply Geo
16 Afternic DLS Blog
16 Dave Zan
16 FKA200
16 I Squatted Your EU
16 Names at Work
16 Success Click
16 Tia Wood
16 David Carter
15 Domain Pulse
15 Domainer SEO
15 Web Publishing Blog
14 Domainer Developer
14 Domaining Tips
14 Url Academy
13 Available Domain Names
13 Domain Parking Money
13 Domainer Pro
13 Is It Me Or Is Everyone Else Stupid?
13 The Hot Iron
13 Oz Domainer
12 DNZoom
12 DomainJunkies
12 Get Domains
12 Ms Domainer
12 Supernatural Agency
12 Good Url Bad Url
11 Domainer Income
11 DotMobiz
11 Green Taxi
11 Quad Letter Domains
10 Clicks and Bits
10 Come Domain
10 DN Cartoons
10 Jothan Frakes’ Weblog
1 – 9
9 Acro
9 Trend Domaining
8 DN Kitchen
8 Domain News 360
8 Domain Week
8 Predictive Domaining
8 Domaining
7 Domain Blog
7 Domain SEM
7 E3 Auction
7 Domaining UK
7 Electron
7 Mister.us
7 NNNNN Domains
6 Name Blog
6 The Critical Post
6 Unplain
5 MyID.ca
5 NameBait
2 Invest In Domains
2 Newfound Names
2 NameBio
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It’s funny, but I find it’s not very accurate of the popularity of the domaining bloggers.
Let say we base the popularity in the number of clicks their headlines are getting in Domaining.com
Then we get for the last 90 days, from the most popular to the less popular :
The Domains
DotWeekly
Domain Name Wire
Elliot Silver
The Frager factor
DNJournal
Conceptualist
URL Academy
Domain Name News
Rick Latona
Domain Magnate
DnExpert
Trend Domaining
Newfound Names
David Carter
DN Blogger
Simply Geo
NameBio
Domainer Income
Domain Flipper
Rick Schwartz
Julia Mackenzie
Green Taxi
Acro
Dot Sauce
Dominik Mueller
Domain Bits
YGrab
Domainers Gazette
Domainer Developer
Michael Gilmour
Bill Eisenmann
Stephen Douglas
Scott Fish
4 Letter Noob
Inside Domaining
aeiou.com
Domain Dispute
Name Strategy
Direct Navigation
Anticybersquatting
DNKitchen
DN Cartoons
Good URL Bad URL
Quad Letter Domains
Domain Columnist
Domaining UK
Afternic DLS
eBusinessDomains
NamesAtWork
Mister US
Fractional Domaining
Dot CA Domains
Domaining Tips
Unplain
fka200
OzDomainer
DomainWeek
SEDO
NameDrive
Name.com
NameWise
Predictive Domaining
WhyPark
Dot Mobiz
MyID
DNZoom by BIDO
Just Dropped
Jothan Frakes
The Critical Post
IDN Focus
IDN News
TheBestBlogInTheWorld
But this is not a good measure of popularity, some bloggers only create a post per week while other create several per day, so let do another data extraction and this time let’s rank by count(posts) / clicks.
For the last 90 days we get:
Rick Schwartz
Rick Latona
Stephen Douglas
Newfound Names
Elliot Silver
Domaining Tips
Julia Mackenzie
DNJournal
Domain Bits
Acro
Domainers Gazette
Domain Flipper
Name Strategy
Conceptualist
David Carter
DN Cartoons
YGrab
OzDomainer
Bill Eisenmann
DotWeekly
Michael Gilmour
WhyPark
Domain Name Wire
Domainer Developer
Unplain
The Domains
Simply Geo
NameBio
DNZoom by BIDO
Inside Domaining
eBusinessDomains
DomainWeek
aeiou.com
Just Dropped
4 Letter Noob
Trend Domaining
Jothan Frakes
Domain Columnist
Domain Magnate
DN Blogger
Afternic DLS
DNKitchen
Fractional Domaining
The Critical Post
Direct Navigation
fka200
Dot Sauce
Dominik Mueller
Anticybersquatting
Quad Letter Domains
URL Academy
The Frager factor
Mister US
Name.com
Domainer Income
Predictive Domaining
Domain Name News
Domaining UK
Domain Dispute
DnExpert
Scott Fish
Green Taxi
NamesAtWork
SEDO
Dot CA Domains
NameWise
NameDrive
Dot Mobiz
Good URL Bad URL
MyID
IDN Focus
IDN News
TheBestBlogInTheWorld
And this one is so true and outlines so well what is happening.
As I commented recently to a new blogger, what ever post the bloggers in the top of this list create you can be sure they will get hundreds clicks immediately while very interesting posts by no popular bloggers are often simply ignored. It’s hard to make a reputation, so easy to lost it!
DNJournal should be at the top of that list.
Thanks Francois – very interesting stats!
David, of course you’re right. Not sure how I managed to leave them off the list. I’ve amended that.
Added in Url Academy as well.
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“DNJournal should be at the top of that list.”
I agree. No one works harder than Ron Jackson in bringing to us the VERY BEST domaining info. His weekly sales report is a must-read for all domainers.
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It’s nice to see all my favorite websites being promoted, even the lowest ranked websites on this list are regulars for me with great content.
It looks like DotSauce scored fourth highest with 37! It is misplaced a little bit lower on the list. Still an honor to be included and a part of domaining.
Here’s to Domain Bits getting bumped up!
Hmm…interesting, to say the least. 🙂
Sorry about that Mark – fixed it.
If you have to fix a lot of errors in this post after publishing, why did you rank these blogs at all?….. I have a ‘ranking ticker’ my screen, there are lot of things that are not accurate in this post. Maybe I am missing something. I even found it more ridiculous that you rated everyone but your blog. This kind of misinformation is not fair to the hard working bloggers …you gotta give credit to whom it is due.. I must tell you, bro you better off not doing this ranking at all.
Thanks Seyi.
I did in fact include my blog in the rankings.
There were some errors, but I’m not a politician, and don’t have a problem with admitting mistakes and correcting them.
Also, you should double check the title – the article is called “Weekend Fun”
Very interesting post. I enjoyed Francois’ follow up as well. I’m sorry to see GreenTaxi fall when it goes to clicks/post, but it only inspires me to write better quality domain articles.
Thank you for the encouragement guys!
Seyi – thanks for the laugh. May I recommend yoga?
Yo yo! How much do I owe you for placing me third on your list?
“by count(posts) / clicks.
For the last 90 days we get:
RickSchwartz
Rick Latona
Stephen Douglas”
I do pretty good just below the Two Ricks. Now that I know this, should I start posting nice articles just to calm down the enthusiasm, or do I increase the juice to overload the system?
Stay tuned. Thanks for the post, hope it’s true!
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