Happy Halloween: Happy Hotelier’s 300 T-List Travel Related Blogs Ranked according to Technorati

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1. Hi Guido – thanks so much for including me! I see you went back to your previous site design – I really like it. Barbara

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2. I enjoyed this list and found some new blogs to read.

   Might you consider adding my blog, Travels with Children, to a future edition?

   Thanks for all you do for the travel-writing world!

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3. Hi Guido,
   Thanks for putting “What a Trip” on the ‘front’ burner. I love the Boots boyz, but my blog wasn’t getting much attention over there. I’m happy to have my own domain name for my site.

   Thanks for putting together this list. I’m sure it was a lot of work!

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4. @ Linda
   Sure, no problem, but I really don’t know if I and when I will (want to) find the time again to do this:-)
   @ Barbara
   You were on the list already. As you see you have a ranking now with Technorati. Although it is still sometimes flaky….And yes I went back to Misty again….but if you wish you can use one of the presently 3 other themes if you press one of them see the label Switch Theme. At least you now have an answer to your e-mail question and I am glad I have solved the myriad problems I had with this blog:-).

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5. Hi Guido,

   Thanks for including my luxuryuktravel blog, would it be possible to include it’s twin http://www.luxuryspaintravel.wordpress.com

   Rachel

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6. @ Rachel

   It is there already on place 255:-)

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7. Great and interesting list. Thanks for compiling it. Definitely interesting to see new bloggers as well as some regulars I read – and keeps up my interest of sharing little corners of the world that I find.

   james.. futuregringo.com [account suspended alas]

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8. HH-
   Thanks for the list.
   I’m astounded I’m on this at all. Would you offer some assistance in helping me/us figure out how to improve technorati ratings? I’ve signed up with them but that’s about it. Is there something else I/we should be doing?
   I get all these nice comments when people finally land on my blog. It would be great if I could figure out how to get it in front of more people. Become a millionaire, retire, yadda, yadda….
   Thanks again,
   boldlygosolo.com

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9. Hi there,
   That does sound like a nasty manual process. Seems to me like you need two short scripts: one to scrape the rankings from technorati and a second to parse the data results and spit out an html file.
   If you stored the data in excel, you could use something a simple as vbscript to do at least the second task for you – just a suggestion.

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10. Guido
    Thanks for doing the ranking. Am thrilled to find the BOOT in the top 100. I am interested to hear your thoughts on the classification of the BOOT as being on the subject of “Air Travel”. I try in the blog to cover the a variety of commercial aspects around the business of online travel including OTAs and category focused intermediaries, suppliers (air and hotel) and general online travel industry trends.

    best

    Tim

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11. @ Ellen
    I believe the best thing you can do is going on doing what you are doing. It’s all a matter of time. For some time I had the idea that I should get more focus on this blog…then I abandoned that idea again and see now I was right…just be your self and you will attract the audience that suits you best. Maybe some syndication here and there…but there are pros and cons. This blog is syndicated on Tips of the T-list….that picked this post up so fast that the technorati back links to various blogs of the list are from Tips and not from me. This maybe proves the right of the cons…but I have to admit that in the translation between the spreadsheet and the htm there was an error code occurring that I had to weed out mannually as soon as I had pushed the “Publish” button.

    @ Beth
    Thank you for pointing me to vb script. I’ll have a look into it.

    @Tim
    Not only in mileage you are on the top:-) Maybe from that I got the idea of Air Travel. I don’t know anymore. The classification process was and is arbitrary. I would welcome any better suggestion.

    @ Hotelmarketing Blog
    I am glad the language barrier that I see between the English language blogs and the German Language blogs on the one hand and the Spanish language blogs on the other hand ( not to forget the French), didn’t prevent you from posting about the list.

    Guido

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12. Hi Guido,

    Thanks for doing so much work to compile this list!

    Just wanted to let you know that the Family Travel blog URL has changed….it is now http://www.familytravellogue.com but it is still hosted on BootsnAll.

    The old URL will redirect, but of course it will take time for the new URL to regain authority level in Technorati, Google, etc.

    Best wishes,

    Sheila

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13. Woo – #69!! An awesome position to find myself in. 😉

    Thanks for the listing!!

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14. Thanks HH,
    I will continue doing what I’m doing – writing the blog. At least THAT I know how to do…oh, and traveling.
    Ellen at boldlygosolo

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15. Okay, I have to ask. If travelpod as a whole site is considered a blog, then can we please have travellerspoint added to the list too? I realize this is probably due to technorati not following their own classification of blog, but argh, how did they get on the t-list? Especially looking at their home page with nofollow highlighting switched on seems to indicate they’re not really about blogging anymore 😉 Guys like bootsnall would surely also love to see all their hundreds/thousands of blogs lumped into one and given weighting together.

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16. Oh, regarding the table. I found sort table (http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/) to be a beauty of a piece of software. Might help!

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17. Nice work Guido as usual.
    I was looking for a list of travel/leisure blogs to add to my Google reader, so good timing.

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18. Hi Guido,
    That was me (Michelle) with the vbscript idea, not Beth. But that’s OK, you can call me Beth if you want 🙂
    Wandermom

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19. @ Sam

    I believe you are right! Sorry! You would be at place 5! You will be in the next edition.

    Thanks a lot for the pointer. If I can get it working, it might help with adjustments and keeping this a bit more up to date (and weed errors out)…

    Added:

    I’ve come up with a bare HTML sortable table here: Sortable Table. I’ve found no way to incorporate it in a Blog post yet….

    Edited November 3, 2008

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20. Sorry Michelle, on first sight I believed there was only one of you, Beth Whitman, who so prominently appears upfront.. but now I see there are six of you 🙂

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21. Well done Guido on painstaking process it seems. The new Travo blog is included now, as far as Technorati is concerned, within the main Travo site, so you can use this link as your guide perhaps.

    If you’re allowing travelpod to aggregate all their links for a myriad of blogs into one listing, then you can for us as well eh? 🙂

    In addition i wouldn’t have labelled us as a ‘marketing’ blog, sorry.

    We are a good, er, old fashioned media company blogging away like the rest of you.

    Also, one of the quirks of a list like this is that you are reliant on a system like Technorati, when we all know there are hundreds of good blogs out there where, for whatever reason, their owners have decided not to list on Technorati.

    Bainbridge’s Musings on Travel Ecommerce is an obvious one.

    Keep us the good work, Guido. See you in Hell (sorry, ExCel, for World Travel Market). 🙂

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22. @ Kevin

    First I had to dig up your comment up from under my askimet spam filter (-:

    You can find the new Travolution Blog on place 291. In the next version the old one will be discarded.

    I am the first one to admit the technorati measuring is fallible. The Technorati site itself is unstable as on one moment they give 0 backlinks and 0 authority and the next moment – like with the new Travolution Blog – they give backlinks 836 and authority 78…But I can’t see anything better at the moment. One item speaks in their favor and that is that they only measure 185 days of backlinks. So the inactive blogs disappear gradually.

    Now how would you describe your blog in one word apart from Media?

    And poor Alex. I have to apology, because I simply forgot about him like Everything Everywhere…and maybe many others.

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23. Thanks for the link…and compiling this list. It’s a great resource for the travel community, and a nice encouragement to all of us bloggers.

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24. I agree with your assessment about Alexa not being the best indicator. By their own admission, any ranking over 100K is a rough estimate, and the higher the ranking the less accurate it becomes. So a 7 Million blog could have tons of traffic, but just hasn’t been picked up by Alexa.

    Is there a way to add a site? My site http://almostfearless.com/ is new this year, but I’d love to see it added. Thanks!

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25. Thanks for listing TravelPod at the top of the list again!

    Louise Brown
    TravelPod Community Manager

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26. You are not considering many of our Spanish/English Blogs of Latinamerica(www.grupovisiting.com)
    Check this http://www.visitingmexico.com.mx/blog
    http://www.visitingargentina.com/blog
    You can find more than 150 blogs from Mexico, Chile, Spain and Argentina destinations

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27. Hi Eduardo

    It is not a matter of not considering them, but simply of not being aware of them. Thanks for the pointer!

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28. What an awesome job, HH! I’d allowed the T-List to slip my mind, but this looks outstanding. And the T-List is definitely a valuable resource of travel blogs. 🙂

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29. Thank you, thank you! I just recently discovered this list, and now my couples’ travel blog, Travels With Two, is ON it!

    It feels good to know there’s a big travel blogging community out there, and that I’m in such good (and far-reaching) company.

    Hooray for all of us!

    Melanie Waldman
    Travels With Two

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30. Hi Guido,

    I’m a SEO professional who works with many travel-based clients, and I question Technorati to compile your list of top 300 blogs. Technorati’s rankings are based on links, but do not reflect traffic or influence. Links are definitely not the same as traffic or influence. There’s a saying in the SEO biz that many MANY links go unclicked.

    As someone who is well acquainted with the online travel scene, I immediately noticed that several notable influential blogs have a much larger following than the blogs in your top 20. The Perrin Post, for example, and Arthur Frommer’s blog, are far more influential than either Delicious Baby or Island Life. And surely their traffic stats are much, much higher too, so how could this list possibly make sense to anyone? Perhaps they are undervalued by Technorati because they are part of larger sites (Concierge and Frommers, respectively). So what about all the other blogs contained within larger sites? They are presumably undervalued as well by Technorati and thus on your list.

    I suppose I’m a skeptic and find lists quite arbitrary, and as a SEO professional I know how flawed Technorati is as an indicator of popularity. Unless you have access to the traffic reports, which you obviously do not, then I’m afraid I don’t see how this is a true reading of what’s really “the top” of the travel blog field.

    If you Google phrases like “blog travel deals,” “blog family travel,” “blog ski vacations,” “blog travel news,” and so on, you’ll find many top travel blogs that have been left out of your list. Their high Google ranking tells you they are popular–and often more popular than those at the top of this list.

    Christine

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31. I’ve seen lists from other niches that use a combination of Alexa, Technorati, Page Rank and Complete.com. RSS subscribers would also be good, but that information isn’t available for every site.

    I also think you should separate corporate sites and independent sites. They are really in different classes. You could make a list with National Geographic, Conde Nast, Discovery Channel and Expedia, but it really won’t say much.

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32. Great list. Definatley shooting to make the list next time you run it.
    Jon
    The DC Traveler & Travel Photo Daily

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33. Great list – Congratulations to everyone who made it! Inviting bloggers and travelers (…and photographers, film makers, pet lovers and RVers!) to come visit, subscribe and just mosey around at http://Traveling12Feet.com

    Thanks, and travel on!
    Rikki

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34. (retrying post?)
    CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who made this list!
    While you’re at it, I’m inviting everyone to visit, subscribe, or just mosey around Traveling12Feet.com!

    Fellow travelers, photographers, RVers and campers, film makers, pet owners – even pasta lovers (me too), come be part of our travels!
    http://Traveling12Feet.com

    Thanks and see you there!

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35. Rikki

    Your comment was caught by the spam filter. Which of the two would you like to remain?

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36. Well Good Golly Miss Molly! I can’t really believe that my little blog made this list! Awesome. I am now inspired to keep going. What could be better to write about than travel!
    https://travelfromseattle.wordpress.com/

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38. Thanks for this great list, very well written. You should blog more about this!

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39. Thanks for the list, I will definitely bookmark for future reference.

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40. @ Lalacan You just commented while I was editing my newest post on top lists of travel blogs. Check it out!

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41. Great list, but do you have any plans to update it?

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42. I don´t unterstand the T-list, but thank you for listing here at least.

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43. Would love to see this list updated – although 10 years later so many of these blogs are still great. I know one above that has been out of business for over 5 years – would be great to see it replaced with https://www.nycinsiderguide.com. Thanks!

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    1. @Melissa
       Thank you, but no. I won’t probably update the list other than weeding out not working links as I did from time to time.

       However I can point you to a much larger list of 1,000 travelblogs that is updated weekly and uses various parameters: https://www.rise.global/travel1k/r/2625639

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