I was alerted to a new (to me) website which aggregates language-related blog postings (link). I received an email which informed me that my blog was number 180 out of 250. I was surprised that Language Log and Languagehat were 13th and 14th on the list of the top 100 blogs. Of the blogs which were rated higher, I only knew one, at number 10, Language Geek. I'm not quite sure what criteria they're using, but it isn't Technorati. Language Log currently ranks 4,833rd, while their number one blog, the English Blog, ranks 775,673rd.

[Addendum: Here's how they ranked the blogs.]

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I get feeds from the English Blog. I've never bothered bringing to the attention of anyone here because it's really of little interest to anyone except English teachers as mostly it just gives links to teaching websites or websites that the author thinks are useful to teachers.

I can't understand their ranking, either, even after reading their explanation.

The main language blogs that I subscribe to are:

1. Language Log;
2. Language Hat;
3. Separated by a common language;
4. The Word Detective;
5. World Wide Words;
6. Worthless Word for the Day

1. Language Log;
2. Language Hat;
3. Separated by a common language;
4. The Word Detective;
5. World Wide Words;
6. Worthless Word for the Day

And their ranking is:

1. 13
   
2. 14
   
3. 40
   
4. n/a
   
5. 244
   
6. n/a
   

Do Word Detective, World Wide Words, and Worthless Word of the Day have Blogs? I just know of their Web sites. z, was this only a Blog rating, or did it rate Web sites, too? If so, was AWAD there? I also like Mr. Verb, which I see is in the 40s.

I subscribe to their RSS feeds.

Word Detective is unusual in that he has "protected" feeds for paid subscribers. Their contents are generally released to the rest of us several months later. The most recent (August) public posts were originally made around the end of last year. The site is at http://www.word-detective.com/

World Wide Words is at http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm

Tsuwm's wwftd at Yahoo! Groups is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/

AWAD only seems to provide an email subscription service. I couldn't find an RSS feed on their site.

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Originally posted by arnie:
I subscribe to their RSS feeds.

Tsuwm's wwftd at Yahoo! Groups is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwftd/

since I listed the Yahoo! group as my RSS feed, my subscription list has stagnated (unsubscribes pretty much balancing with subscribes), and the hit rate at my home page has gone down.

I wish I had some way of measuring the effects of what those like you are doing. (your post is the first "proof" I have that this is happening!)

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