Interactive Marketing Blog

The genesis of this post started long time back when I started watching the Social Media Marketing space in India for a while now. After hovering around the Web, I’ve found very few comprehensive lists on Social Media Blogs in India. So this effort is primarily to put all those insightful & interesting blogs under “Top Social Media Blogs in India” list and rank them accordingly.

The “Top 10 Social Media Marketing Blogs” lists ranks blogs according to Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Number of Feed subscriber, Technorati authority and My Ranking (as Sampad’s Rank).

Each of the five factors range from 0 to 10, where 10 is the maximum score. The maximum total score for each blog, therefore, is 50. There will be monthly updates on the ranking.

Below you will find details about the algorithm:

Blogs considered: The list considers only blogs that have a high percentage of Social Media related content. Topics might range from Social Media news, information, tips, building communities, conversations etc.

Google PageRank (o to 10): Google PageRank is a link-analysis algorithm that interprets web links and assigns a numerical weighting (0 to 10) to each site. The actual PageRank was used on the algorithm.

Alexa Rank (o to 10): Alexa ranks sites with an algorithm that incorporats page views and reach (the percentage of all web users who have visited that particular site). This ranges were determined based on the Alexa Rank (i.e., 150k and up, 150k-100k, 100k-75k, 75k-50k) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

Feed Subscriber (0 to 10): Subscriber ranges were determined (i.e., 1-50, 50-100, 100-150, 150-200 and more) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

Technorati Authority (0 to 10): Much like the InLinks countm Technorati’s Authority count is the number of blogs (as opposed to individual links) that link to a particular blog. Ranges were determined on Technorati’s Authority rank (i.e. 1-100, 100-200, 200-400, 400-600 & more) and each range was assigned a number (1 to 10).

Sampad’s Rank (0 to 10): This is the only subjective measure in the algorithm to be assigned to the blogs which will be ranked. The actual rank depends on the content of the blog posts, quality of the postsm frequency, creativity & relevancy.

NOTE: These are the best blogs in Social Media in India. If you want to feature in the “Best Social Media Blogs in India” list, please link back to this post or else email me at sampad.s [at]gmail.com your Blog Address and RSS feed for review. As soon as your blog gets listed, will mail you back.

Blog Address and RSS Feeds:

Gauravonomics (RSS); Rajesh @ BlogWorks (RSS); India PR Blog (RSS); Customer World (RSS); Kiruba Shankar (RSS); Dina Mehta (RSS); Bhatnaturally (RSS); Technology, Mobility, Usability and other Musings (RSS); Brants (RSS); Daksh’s Marketing Blog (RSS); Interactive Marketing Blog (RSS); Marketing in a branded world!! (RSS); MisEntropy (RSS); Saurabh Garg (RSS); Marketology- Emerging Trends (RSS); One Size Fits One (RSS); CheckPosts- On Marketing Media and Culture(RSS); Digerati Forum (RSS)