Top 50 law blogs by common metrics
Do you know how well one law blog compares to other blogs? Having a tough time looking for top blogs on a certain topic? BlogRank collects data on thousands of blogs, evaluates them against common metrics and then ranks them. BlogRank has come out with dynamic rankings of blogs in about 50 areas, including the law, for which it provides a running top 50 law blog list.
Though what blog is best is always subject, based on your interests and who are looking to engage, BlogRank does their best to apply an objective analysis by looking at the following criteria.
- Feedburner RSS subscribers
- Unique monthly visitors
- Yahoo indexed pages
- Google indexed pages
- By number of incoming links
- Ratio of incoming links to numbers of pages
- Google PageRank
- Alexa rank (traffic analysis)
- Compete rank (traffic analysis)
Seattle based, Avvo, which helps people make better decisions when hiring a lawyer, has run its list of top legal blogs, based on Alexa rankings alone, for sometime.
We around LexBlog like the BlogRank top 50 better than Avvo’s. My ‘Real Lawyers Have Blogs’ comes in at number 7 on BlogRank’s list and is no where to be seen in the top 481 on the Avvo list. In fairness to Avvo, they’re using only Alexa and my blog traffic, running on a subdomain of LexBlog.com, is not segregated from traffic to our corporate website.
Rankings are fun to look at, but don’t get too crazy over them. You ought to be following those blogs you find interesting, that add value to your life, and in which you engage the authors.
For those bloggers looking to build relationships and enhance their reputations to develop new business, niche blogs covering your area of the law, the industry you serve, and your locale, can be much more worthwhile to follow, engage, and build relationships with. Those blogs are the influencers of your clients and prospective clients and the amplifiers of your blog to your target audience.
In addition, those niche blogs off the ‘A list’ that are up written by up and coming bloggers are more likely to engage you. They have more time.