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Top 60 Church Blogs – Who’s Missing?

Posted by John Saddington on Jan 19, 2009

top_blogsKent Shaffer over at ChurchRelevance.com has logged some of the top 60 Church Blogs out there in the sphere. The list is pretty eclectic.

Kent does us the honor of providing us with how he calculated the list and the process by which he did it, although he doesn’t necessarily give us how he came up with the 110 “well known” blogs.

Good stuff overall although the sources are a bit suspect: Large changes to a number of the sources algorithms have challenged them as being definitive and trustworthy. There are a number of other more recognized trusted-sources that might be used in future releases.

What I love, though, are some of the new finds: Quite a few I’ve never heard but I’ll be checking them out this week.

As one other blogger noted, if you could add to this list who’d make it in your book?

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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11 Responses to “Top 60 Church Blogs – Who’s Missing?”

  1. Kent Shaffer
    Monday, January 19, 2009 at 12:05 pm

    Great thoughts, John!

    I would love to hear from you and your readers what other data sources they would recommend me using for future updates to the list.

    As for how the 110 were chosen, I was already aware of who most of the key influencers in each blogosphere clique were. I analyzed their blogrolls. I used Alltop. I looked on Technorati. And I cross referenced blogs with high Technorati authority to see which inlinking blogs also had high Technorati authority. I actually reviewed far more than 110 blogs, but I did not bother to do full analysis on many of them because they instantly started ranking too low.

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    • human3rror
      Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 7:25 am

      thanks for filling in the blanks! working on a post to answer your other q… and dj's… :)

      thanks for this. you're awesome.

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  2. cynthia
    Monday, January 19, 2009 at 10:42 am

    I cannot believe you referred to me as “one other blogger”!!

    Shouldn’t that be “teh one other blogger”?

    - yo mama

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  3. djchuang
    Monday, January 19, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    i'd like to have seen you name the other more trusted sources for stats

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    • human3rror
      Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 7:22 am

      good point. blog post.

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  4. Jim
    Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 12:51 am

    church crunch, church crunch ,church crunch

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    • human3rror
      Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 7:18 am

      we're too new. we're too young. and people don't like us.

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  5. Bosco Peters
    Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 8:32 am

    Greetings
    I looked at some of the visitor numbers provided on the blogs listed
    and there is not necessarily a correlation between the placing on the list following this criteria
    & the number of people visiting.
    You ask who else might be on such a list…
    The criteria might be different…
    #10 gets an average of 497 visitors a day.
    That would be a distressingly slow day for my blog http://www.liturgy.co.nzwhich on a good week gets 10,000 visitors a week.
    Blessings

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    • human3rror
      Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 2:14 pm

      good point here. very true.

      criteria is everything. thanks for the reminder!

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    • Kent Shaffer
      Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 2:23 pm

      Alexa factors in traffic stats (albeit not perfect). But since the list also considers RSS feed subscribers, PageRank, link count, and unique linking blogs, a site with high traffic is not guaranteed a high place.

      Otherwise, blogs like Out of Ur would be even higher because it is part of the high-traffic ChristianityToday.com.

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