Hasta La Creative!

You might have spotted the Ad Age power 150 and looked to find that SEO blogs count higher than personal blogs (of course!), but since it takes so many different number crunching things into account, it’s surprisingly democratic – and it adds “Todd Points” to the score. The many different sources also causes the list to move around a lot more than any others, since for example Technorati – despite many years on the web – can suddenly go all wonky. I’ve seen Adland be on #17 and #70 on the same day as Technorati has acted funky for some reason. Media Culpa also notes that the power150 only counts his atom feed and not his many feedburner subscribers. Not to mention that Alexa is still shunned by most mac-people (even though the alexa toolbar is now available for Firefox) giving the SEO (and thus PC users) blogs a leg up with that score over the blogs more often frequented by mac-driving creative types.

Spinning around made a list of the top UK blogs found on the Power150 where Russel Davies is the leader of the pack.
But there’s a European ranking out there as well, it was Kullin’s Media Culpa that brought this to my attention in his July 18 post – Nick Burcher counted all the european flags on the list to make a European version and even made little graphs, and then he did one based on Alexa traffic where Adland is number 2 again.

Well, number two no more. Adverblog and Adland usually have the same exact total score, but with Adverblog listed first, so I naturally had to screendump this. 😉 We’ll never beat Italy in football (soccer to you US folks) so I have to gloat when I have my chance. Sweden, raah raah *dances around with pompoms* No hard feelings Italy, you know i root for Italia in football!

The top 100 blogs in the European ranking today is:

#1(19) Adland – Sweden
#2 (22) Adverblog – Italy
#3 (27) I Believe in advertising – Italy
#4 (40) Russel Davies – England
#5 (42) Yoast – Tweaking Websites The Netherlands
#6 (48) Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog Belgium
#7 (49) Osocio The Netherlands
#8 (54) Adverbox – Italy
#9 (57) NevilleHobson.com – England
#10 (58) David Airey – Scotland
#11 (60) Blogstorm – England
#12 (84) Adliterate – England
#13 (90) Crackunit – England
#14 (93) Behind The Buzz – UK (!)
#15 (101) Viralblog – The Netherlands
#16 (104) Media Culpa – Sweden
#17 (117) Talent imitates, genius steals – England
#18 (127) Krishna De’s BizGrowth News – Ireland
#19 (128) Only dead fish – England
#20 (131) PR blogger – England
#21 (132) The engaging brand – England
#22 (139) Joe La Pompe – France Shout-out! been around almost as long as we have!
#23 (143) HERD – England
#24 (146) Fresh Creation – The Netherlands
#25 (156) Coolz0r Marketing Thoughts – Belgium

(the rest inside, folks)

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