The Western Standard is number one this month. At least it got more traffic and respect than any other blog in the past 30 days. That said it is true that if you add up the traffic and inbound links from Canadian Cynic, Scott’s Diatribes, and Buckdog into a … ‘coalition’, if you will, they easily outnumber what the Standard got. So what I’m saying is that Canada’s real first choice is Werner Patels. Congrats Werner.
1 – Western Standard
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/
pr 6
169,957
2 – SmallDeadAnimals
http://smalldeadanimals.com/
pr 6
244,440
3 – Ghost of a Flea
http://ghostofaflea.com/
PR6
260,237
4 – Matthew Good
http://www.matthewgood.org/
PR6
280,004
5 – Ezra Levant
http://ezralevant.com/
pr 6
292,114
6 – Steynonline
http://www.steynonline.com/
pr5
102,932
7 – Maple Leaf Web
http://www.mapleleafweb.com/blog
PR 5
193,118
8 – Five Feet of Fury
http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/
pr 5
206,500
9 – Warren Kinsella
http://warrenkinsella.com/
Pr 5
259,814
10 – Bow. James Bow
http://www.bowjamesbow.ca/blog.shtml
pr 5
267,586
11 – Genxat40
http://www.genx40.com/
pr 5
351,683
12 – Canadian Cynic
http://canadiancynic.blogspot.com/
pr 5
460,509
13 – Abandoned Stuff
http://www.abandonedstuff.com/
pr 5
499,249
14 – Garth Turner
http://www.garth.ca/weblog/
PR 5
526,800
15 – Stephen Taylor
http://www.stephentaylor.ca/
pr 5
535,020
16 – David Akin
http://davidakin.blogware.com/
pr 5
560,268
17 – MADinosaur
http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/
PR5
623,360
18 – Eaves.ca
http://eaves.ca/
pr 6
653,067*
19 – Daimnation
http://www.damianpenny.com/
PR 6
690,666*
20 – Red Tory
http://redtory.wordpress.com/
pr 5
680,382
21 – Jay Currie
http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/
pr 5
701,507
22 – A dime a dozen political blog
http://rjjago.wordpress.com/
pr 5
749,546
23 – Calgary Grit
PR5
http://calgarygrit.blogspot.com/
777,921
24 – Buckdog
http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/
pr 5
800,216
25 – Dr Dawg
http://drdawgsblawg.blogspot.com/
pr 5
815,141
Good Lord, I’m dropping like a rock. What does the asterisk next to my number mean? (I take it there’s been some kind of recalculation.)
Yep. I set up two lines for PR6, PR5. For PR6, it’s 500,000. If the Alexa number is over 500,000 it gets dropped to PR 6 and it’s numbers are tweaked in an Obamesque fashion. For PR5, the line is 1,000,000.
It sounds maybe a bit dumb, but it’s done to make the list more sensible.
Thanks again for taking this on, Robert. Sounds like you have far more important things to do that give me another reason to gloat over Jay position in the world.
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There must be a mistake, I made it up to 13 this time ;-)
Thanks again for putting this together.
Damian, on’t worry about the rankings; they’re complete BS and not reflective of actual site traffic. Besides, he only picks a few blogs, then runs them through Alexa (a service that fails to register most blogs and their site traffic, because users have to have Alexa installed in their browser to generate stats, and most people simply don’t bother with it, because it also creates some instability in certain browsers).
That ranking was never accurate and never will be. So don’t get your knickers in a twist. You could be 500 on that silly list and still be among the top-10 blogs in the “real world”.