The Top 30 VoIP Blogs Continued…

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Wow! I could have never imagined this type of response to my Top 30 VoIP Blogs post. One blogger, Luca Filigheddu has created a Top 30 VoIP Blogs list using the Technorati rating system. In his post, Luca asked,

“what criteria had been used to create the (Smith On VoIP) list?”

Here is my response to his post.

Another great way to look at this, but the largest problem with using only Technorati as a source of data, is that the longer a blog is around the more links it will have. So it is safe to say that older blogs rank better in Technorati on the account that links take time to build. This definitely puts great new sites at a disadvantage.

In addition, many of those sites regularly cover topics outside of the VoIP industry which allow them to garner more links then sites specifically devoted to VoIP. The more topics and industries you cover, the more realistic it is to have links from numerous different industries.

What makes a blog is not the links and traffic, but the quality of the posts and the insights they provide. Although I did not write this in my post, I did take into account Technorati rankings, Google page rank, and Alexa ranking, but the most weight was put on innovative and thought provoking insights and what percentage of the blog is devoted to covering VoIP. How I used each of those rankings to come up with a score well that is subject to interpretation and debate. It is definitely not fool prooff or back by scientific research.

I simply created the Smith Blog Rating System. This same formula can be applied to any niche and is the basis of a project I have been working on over at a site called Screen Glare (under construction). All I can say is look out Nielsen Media Research… LOL.