Canada’s Top 25 Political Blogs - December

12Dec07

This is pretty late. Blame me for being good at business, and for being overly indulgent of my family.

In short what this is - is a list of Canada’s Top 25 Political Blogs. The basic methodology is here. Feel free to criticize it in the comments. A couple points first:

I do not endorse any of these blogs. I read some, I dislike others, I know there are some top quality blogs not listed below. I’m sorry. I would love it if all of my favourite blogs were listed below, but it doesn’t work that way. But since I brought it up, please check out the Bacon Eating Atheist Jew and also Terry Glavin.

This is a list of political blogs. I know some blogs are more popular than those listed below - but they’re not political.

I know I missed some blogs. As Rumsfeld would say, that is a known unknown - which is to say something that I know I don’t know. If you know any of my known unknowns, please make a suggestion in the comments.

So that out of the way - a new refinement this month. I’ve set a 1,000,000 cut off. If your blog is over 1,000,000 on Alexa, I won’t be considering it for this list, regardless of the Google page rank (unless that page rank is over 6). This is to deal with some outliers like my blog for instance. My page rank is 5 or 6, but that’s because of a few high quality links from places like SDA, LittleGreenFootballs, Black Tygrrr, Michelle Malkin or some popular foreign sites. In reality, it’s not widely read - the rank is 1.5 million. According to my ranking system I would outrank Warren Kinsella - which I obviously do not. So the cut off deals with this.

The current data is below.  If you made the list Merry Christmas.  If not, maybe show more skin.

Current Rank Site Google Page Rank Alexa Traffic Rank November Rank

  1. Matthew Good | Google PR6 | Alexa 182,073 | NR 1 |
  2. Mark Steyn | Google PR6 | Alexa 208,409 | NR — |
  3. Small Dead Animals | Google PR5 | Alexa 179,230 | NR2 |
  4. Le Blogue du Quebec | Google PR5 | Alexa: 203,329 | NR3 |
  5. Abandoned Stuff | Google PR5 | Alexa: 256,696 | NR4 |
  6. Five Feet of Fury | Google PR5 | 458,735 | NR20 |
  7. Canadian Cynic | Google PR5 | Alexa: 485,782 | NR7 |
  8. Daimnation | Google PR5 | Alexa: 510,037 | NR8 |
  9. Angry in the Great White North | Google PR5 | Alexa: 525,535 | NR6 |
  10. Vive le Canada | Google PR5 | Alexa: 525,540 | NR5 |
  11. Le Revue Gauche | Google PR5 | Alexa 565,881 | NR10 |
  12. Galloping Beaver | Google PR5 | Alexa: 671,204 | NR17 |
  13. Andrew Coyne | Google PR5 | Alexa: 682,581 | NR16 |
  14. Gen X at 40 | Google PR5 | Alexa: 710,659 | NR11 |
  15. Democratic Space | Google PR5 | Alexa: 721,126 | NR9 |
  16. Stephen Taylor | Google PR5 | Alexa: 739,064 | NR15 |
  17. David Akin’s On the Hill | Google PR5 | Alexa: 741,865 | NR– |
  18. Red Tory | Google PR5 | Alexa: 747,878 | NR14 |
  19. Calgary Grit | Google PR5 | Alexa: 770,756 | NR12 |
  20. My Blahg | Google PR5 | Alexa: 834,336 | NR– |
  21. Garth Turner Unedited | Google PR4 | Alexa: 410,071 | NR21|
  22. Ken Chapman | Google PR4 | Alexa: 477,964 | NR–|
  23. Proud to be Canadian | Google PR4 | Alexa: 486,863 | NR22 |
  24. Warren Kinsella Musings | Google PR4 | Alexa: 600,524 | NR13 |
  25. Dust My Broom | Google PR4 | Alexa: 660,919 | NR24 |

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  1. 1 saskboy on December 14, 2007 said:

    Thanks again for doing the list. I see you decided against including Michael Geist?

  2. 2 webmaster on December 14, 2007 said:

    Thx. Yeah. I was thinking about including Geist but decided against it because it’s a slippery slope. He’s more of a topical blogger not a political blogger. That is to say that he only writes on politics as they relate to a single topic.

    As soon as I include him, then I ought to start including other topical bloggers. For example, the BaconEatingAtheistJew I linked to earlier in the post. He just writes about atheism - granted he’s very political about it, but it’s just one topic.

    I can be proved wrong of course, so if anyone wants to convince me that my logic is off on this they are very welcome to. Seriously.

  3. 3 DJeffery on December 22, 2007 said:

    “To search engine newbies, remember that Google ranking is, fundamentally, a function of the number of inbound links. Any links to angrygwn.mu.nu are seen as to a different site because I’ve parked stevejanke.com on it. So to Google, each of these two sites are different and have, say, 200 links each, and are ranked accordingly. With a 301 redirect, Google treats the sites as the same, and credits the main site (stevejanke.com) with all the links from the other domain (angrygwn.mu.nu). Now with 400 inbound links, I zip up the rankings.”

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