Top 25 Travel Blogs of 102 ranked by a another List lover Frothy blogs [ah had to delete the link as this is another member of my category “Dead Travel Bloggers Society” which I changed into Internet Graveyard later] according to Alexa with some need to of editing by me:
Blog/Company Alexa Rank
1 on my way to where 8
2 ANTARCTICA RESEARCH ADVENTURE 8
3 Unforgettable Sydney 8
4 Travel Blog 4,804
5 iWalk, u2? 73,398
6 Newyork Traveler 92,771
7 Travel, Work, Life 95,688
8 The BenSpark 114,277
10 Emm in London 129,292
11 Life of Justin 147,325
12 Travel Blissful 150,557
13 Extreme John Blog 160,683
14 Thailand Land of Smiles 171,848
15 Happy Hotelier 181,641
16 Mimpikami 195,432
17 Traveling Mamas 201,648
18 Go green travel green 295,621
19 The Lost Boy 334,111
20 My Trips 422,798
21 Irish Taxi 452,202
22 El Rinc?n de Edy 488,528
23 Justwandering 497,141
24 My Itchy Travel Feet 504,403
25 RengBA’s Terella 505,561
It immediately demonstrates the relative weakness of this measuring method, because the first 3 mentioned here are on Blogspot which is a site with millions of blogs….There are many more Travel Blogs on Blogspot. So when you go further with this without something else to measure you will end up with hundreds of Travel blogs ranking #8…..
Update
I’ve added the category Internet Graveyard to this post as frothy passed away.
Last edited by GJE on March 11, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Very interesting ranking system…
Just shows what crap Alexa still is and always has been. It can also be manipulated. My site has addresses in languages other than English (Chinese, German etc.) but Alexa measures all these as separate sites, doesn’t aggregate them – seemingly the reverse of Blogger.
Yes, it seems somewhat dubious to consider the Antarctica Research Adventure, while I’m sure a riveting read, to be the 8th most popular site on the Internet.
if they have they blogspot rank of #8 then they actually have no rank because they are not viewed as to have enough to traffic to be seperate from the main blogspot domain.
plus this list misses, vagabondish, my site, and everything everywhere- all sites with an alexa below 100,000
Not to knock the fact that Happy Hotelier made the list, but Alexa IS a silly ranking system indeed. No one should take it seriously. Way too many great blogs were missed in this case…
@ All
I do believe there is not one all encompassing ranking system. The technorati ranking I have used for some time has its failures as well.
Hiya, well completely agree that there are no ideal ranking solutions, but they can all be used as a benchmark. Congratulations on doing so well though 🙂
Well, it appears that those of us who read your blog agree that you’ve earned a top ranking! Congratulations! (Howya been, by the way?)