This list endeavours to rank all the lists on social media/marketing blogs in Australia.
| 1. | Laurel Papworth’s adaptation of AdAge Power 150 | February ’09 | |
| AdAge’s Power 150 list main strength is the entry requirements. | |||
| 2. | Meg @ Blog Pond | April ’09 January ’09 May ’07 | |
| Meg produces lists around all kinds of topics, not just marketing. | |||
| 3. | Julian Cole @ Adspace Pioneers | June ’09 January ’09 October ’08 | |
| Julian has received lots of PR for his list. It’s only flaw is it’s community centric nature. | |||
| 4. | Jon @ Australian Blogs | I had the link and lost it *cry* | |
| Jon spends all his time talking about Australian blogs. | |||
| 5. | Gary Hayes’ adaptation of AdAge Power 150 | November ’08 | |
| He’s done the same trick as Laurel, but it seems he did it first. | |||
| 6. | Top Fifty Writing Blogs in Australia | June ’09 March ’09 | |
| I like this list as it’s a kind of overlap into marketing, but also a seperate community. | |||
| 7. | Smart Company | October ’08 | |
| This list is aimed at the lay person, and focused on business blogs. However, it’s not comprehensive. | |||
| 8. | AdAge Power 150 | Current | |
| Australia’s profile in this list is ever increasing and a good place to keep an eye out for good stuff. | |||
| 9. | Me @ Just Another Blog Ranker | Updated daily | |
| Unbiased & automatically updated, however, no human review/filter, which is critical. Also, it’s not comprehensive (yet) | |||
| 10. | B&T’s list (a copy of Julian Cole’s list) |
June ’09 | |
| Broken, and looks like it has been since February ’09. | |||
Laurel Papworth discusses the importance of leaderboards in communities, what do you think ?
And one of Australia’s top bloggers, Darren Rowse, view’s on ‘top blog’ lists.
The problem with ‘Australian Blogs’ for marketers
Blog’s based in Australia don’t necessarily have an Australian readership. What we need is a ranking of the top blogs READ by Australians. Julian? Hitwise?
April 16th, 2009 on 9:40 am
Nice list. Just a few points.
1. My name is Julian Cole not Coles
2. I did an update of my list in January
3. The B&T list is based on my list, it is going to be updated in June
4. I think there would be only a number of exceptions to the rule but I think most Australian blogs would get their traffic from an Australian audience, just look at the comments for 90% of the blogs in Australia.
April 16th, 2009 on 7:25 pm
Julian is Jules not Julian
Blog looks nice btw
e.g. Darren Rowse is SOOOO a marketing blogger! #SMX proves that ! hahaha.
Leaderboards are fun for a) the newbie looking for a list to work through and b) the rest of us looking for an argument
April 16th, 2009 on 10:29 am
Thanks for the feedback Julian, I’ve updated the post.
Regarding point 4, might point isn’t that these blogs don’t get a lot of Australian traffic. What we need to know, in an ideal world, is what are the most popular marketing blogs read by Australians. I know that I read blogs from the US & UK, for example.