Top 25 Political Blogs

Canada’s Top 25 Political Blogs is a list that I compile each month.  The methodology for the list is refined each month, but the basic idea behind it is to show which sites are the most widely read and the most influential.

The list is not perfect, it’s an approximation and sometimes the right blogs are left out, and the wrong blogs are included.  I’d imagine that 2 or 3 blogs on the list ought not to be here, and 2 or 3 different ones should.  But the stats say they belong, and I figure it’s best not to try and make too many corrections – because then the whole thing becomes subjective and open to bias.

So this is it, as objective as I can get it.

Rules:

• Google Page Rank + Alexa Rank = List Ranking
• Alexa Rankings are for the last week, and may different from quarterly rankings that you see when you use the Alexa toolbar.  [this rule was added in order to compensate for sites that had quarterly rankings that were skewed by a swarm of hits from Digg or Reddit et al.]
• No site with an Alexa rank above 1,000,000 will be included.  [This rule was added in order to compensate for sites like mine that got a lot of top quality links, but little traffic.]
• Google PR 6 sites with an Alexa rank above 500,000 will be dropped in with the Google PR5 sites, and the Alexa ranking will be adjusted. [this is a refinement of the previous rule]
• Google PR7 sites with an Alexa rank above 250,000 will be dropped in with the Google PR6 sites, and the Alexa ranking will be adjusted.
• Sites hosted on Blogger may not show a correct Alexa rank, and may not be included.
• Blog aggregators like Blogging Tories and Liblogs are not included.
• Media blogs may not be included.  If they are hosted on their magazine or tv station’s website and their blog ranking is indistinguishable from their parent company’s blog rank, than I don’t include them.  If they have their own site, separate from their parent company, than I will include them.
• Single issue blogs are not included.
• Canadian blogs that focus almost exclusively on foreign politics are not included.

A few additions, a lot of modifications, any questions, see the rules above.

The Top 25 Political Blogs for the month of June:

1.  Michael Geist.ca – pr7 – 226086
2.  The Hook - pr6 – 141889
3.  Small Dead Animals.com – pr6 – 179209
4.  Western Standard Shotgun Blog – pr6 – 318564
5.  Eaves.ca – pr6 – 416174
6.  SteynOnLine – pr5 – 125051
7.  GhostofaFlea.com – pr5 – 238884
8.  Ezra Levant.com – pr5 – 269320
9.  Five Feet of Fury – pr5 – 309254
10. Marginalized Action Dinosaur – pr5 – 318601
11. Calgary Grit – pr5 – 337609
12. Warren Kinsella.com – pr5 – 350603
13. GenXat40 – pr5 – 464021
14. Mitchieville – pr5 – 465699
15. Slap Upside the Head – pr5 – 479510
16. Quebec Politique.com – pr5 – 601125
17. Abandoned Stuff.com – pr5 – 616313
18. David Akin’s On The Hill – pr5 – 619074
19. Stephen Taylor.com – pr5 – 760713
20. Law is Cool – pr5 – 903533
21. Jay Currie – pr5 – 910380
22. Bene Diction Blogs On – pr5 – 915627
23. Vive Le Canada – pr5 – 980962
24. Blazing Cat Fur – pr5 – 996009
25. Chinese in Vancouver – pr4 – 524005

The Top 25 from previous months can be found here:

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