Crenk

Over at the Spinning Around blog, James has a great list he is keeping up-to-date of the top UK Marketing weblogs. The list is based upon the AdAge Power 150 and I have attached his most up-to-date list from the 1st May.

If you feel that you should be included, you can get in touch with Ad Age here, who will sort you out. As soon as you’re in, I’ll pick you up in this filleting of the AA chart.

I really looking forward to seeing if James make a nice badge for the sites on the list. I would be sure to place it on Crenk.com. Also, im a little surprised that James doesnt promote the list a little more on his site, because it is a big draw point to the site.

I also just wanted to point out that I came across another great blog that is not UK based, but i thought was worth a mention, DailyWritingTips. There currently is a post that is rising on digg, 44 resume writing tips.

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Chris Garret over at the Blog Herald had a very interesting post this morning. The post was about him listing the feeds that he actually reads in his feed readers. The majority on the list were actually what people are classing as A-listers. A-listers are the blogs that are very well known and are actually authorities in their field.

Chris always gets accused of propping up the A-list, but I think in this case there is something wrong with the lower level bloggers. In Australia we call it “tall poppy syndrome”, which means that the people at a lower level slag off the top people in their field, just because they are at the top and getting attention, and this definitely seems to be the case this time.

The blogs that are currently on the A-list have had to work very hard for a very long period of time to get to where they are today. Weblogs like Techcrunch and Read/Write Web have been going for a minimum for 3 years, and they have been very consistent over that entire period to get where they are.

This is a message to all bloggers who have just started and already want to be authorities in their field, please stop accusing people of favouritism and just get off your ass and work really hard to get somewhere. If you work hard enough over a year or more, im sure you will reap the rewards!

Over the last few weeks there has been a surge of blog sales at various prices, but will your blog be next and what will your site actually be worth.

We have seen the Bloggy Network sell off their most popular blogs to Splashpress Media (Bloggy now to focus on Blogflux), Blogging Fingers sold for $6000, Ryan Shamus sold for $2500, OneMansGoal sold for $8500, NxE sold for $8200 and Shylock Blogging for $4000.

These sites have had a great mixture of statistics with relevance to visitors, pageviews, subscribers and blog life. At present because of this a lot of bloggers are trying to work out how these blogs have be evaluated, with mixed views. 45n5 divides subscribers by the sale amount and then average the amounts per subscriber, thus averaging about $30 per subscriber. This $30 per subscriber seems to be a great amount to judge if you should place advertising on your site for the little income in the short term compared to the value you will have from subscribers in the long term.

If you site currently has 100 subscribers and has been making $200 per month ad revenue, but your subscriber growth has been slow. Wouldnt it be a better idea to remove the ads if your goals are set beyond 6 months so that you can allow subscriber numbers to grow at its full potential. There is no point monetizing your blog as much as possible in the early days unless you are looking for an income or getting ready to sell.

Additionally, how come there isnt a place online that specifically provides auction space for blogs that are trying to sell?

The nice people over at Xfep.com have purchased the Problogger page on the Million Dollar Wiki and dedicated it to Pro Bloggers. I think this is a pretty cool project and hopefully i might even get added to the list. If you want to get added to the list make sure you contact them!