A social network of bloggers in which every user must have a blog and wants people to know about it.
This top is made automatically and is based on a secret combination of different factors: Bloglines RSS subscriptions, Technorati's incoming links, Google BlogSearch's incoming links, Alexa's position, Yahoo's incoming links, Google's incoming links and the number of mentions in several Digg's clones during the last month. The algorithm we use is not static and we are continually working to improve it in order to provide the best results. Particular situations, as the fact that the blog's domain name is used for other things and the updating degree, are also taken into account..
We update the directory with your contributions and with blogs we find by ourselves. If you think a certain blog should be in the top, do not doubt to add it. Final inclusion will be filtered in order to avoid spam.
As Larry Page and Sergey Brin (founders of Google) did in 1998, we have calculated that each link is a popularity vote towards the linked page. So the more links a blog has, the more important it becomes. But these links can come from any website and not just from blogs, as Technorati does.
It reflects if a blog is increasing its popularity since the last update.
We try to update it every day.
For each country and region all blogs made by people coming from or living there, whichever language they use.
We believe in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging but we also think we must help people find the most focused blogs among the long tail of new media. Once you know which blogs are the most important in your region or subject of interest, you can surely decide to follow them on a daily basis.
Popularity tops do exist for every media. They are used in order to help people and advertisers decide which books, music, films, newspapers or TV shows are the most followed. So why don't use the same for blogs?
Good question. A blog is a website updated regularly with news or thoughts ordered chronologically. It doesn't matter if a blog has RSS or if it uses a blogging tool as Blogger, Typepad or WordPress.
Each country we include takes quite a lot of time, so we only take into account some countries. If you can help with new countries/regions, do not doubt to send us an email to top-blogs (at) alianzo.com. We already received some help from Mariano Amartino from Argentina, Hipocratico from Mexico or Loic Le Meur from France.
If you submit your blog to Alianzo, you will get a widget with your ranking and you will be able to add it on your blog. Look at your profile to get it.
If you prefer a smaller image or one without your ranking, you can use this:
To add it, copy this code and paste it on your blog:
