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Wikio Rankings for February

The algorithms are in, and the rankings have been compiled for beer and wine blog rankings for February 2010. Lot’s of jostling and ooh look, I’m back on top! Barry M’s bitten bullet is rising steadily, and the fact that Jeff has finished his blog is starting to make an impact as it slides down three.

If you’d like to be included in the rankings and currently aren’t – or if you would like to exclusively reveal the monthly rankings on your blog next month – please drop me a line…

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Wikio rankings for January 2010

I’ve now agreed with Wikio to be their ‘beer blog monitor’. As such, I get sneak previews of the monthly rankings and keep a lookout for any blogs that should be featured and aren’t.

Whether you think this is a bunch of self-congratulatory mutual backslapping or a credible guide to who’s blog is best, I don’t know many people who can resist a list. I find it alarming when people actually get angry about its very existence – this suggests to me a severe deficit in stuff happening in life offline. At the end of the day, it’s a bit of fun. If you think it’s more than that, have a word with yourself, so here it is – the charts for January:

1 Pencil & Spoon (+1)
2 Pete Brown’s Blog (+1)
3 Brew Dog Blog (-2)
4 Woolpack Dave’s beer and stuff blog (=)
5 Tandleman’s Beer Blog (=)
6 The Pub Curmudgeon (=)
7 The Beer Nut (=)
8 Jeffo’s Beer Blog (=)
9 The Bitten Bullet (+5)
10 `It’s just the beer talking` ? Jeff Pickthall’s Blog (+11)
11 Boak and Bailey’s Beer Blog (+7)
12 Spittoon (-3)
13 Jamie goode’s wine blog (=)
14 Real Ale Reviews (-4)
15 The Wine Conversation (-4)
16 Impy Malting (+3)
17 Brew Wales (-5)
18 Reluctant Scooper (-3)
19 Bibendum Wine (-3)
20 Zythophile (-3)

Ranking by Wikio

Not much movement at all really in the top spots, though I think Brew Dog James’ month on a trawler in the North Sea is a pretty good excuse for slipping down the blog rankings. But congrats to Young Dredge for his perseverance in getting to the top spot – he’s taken a medium and run with it, working incredibly hard. Also nice to see Boak & Bailey, Impy and Jeff moving up.

Anyway, if you have or know of a blog you think should be featured, or if you would like to host the preview of the rankings yourself any time in the next few months, please let me know!

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Exclusive… the Christmas number one

It may still be three weeks away, but Christmas is already here in our hearts. People are recommending Hops and Glory as the ideal gift, and I didn’t even pay them to. Twitter is alive with the sound of people debating the best Christmas beer.
And our thoughts turn to who is going to be Christmas number one.
It’s always a contentious issue. It carries more weight than the number one at any other time of the year – not commercially perhaps, but symbolically.
And this year, I have the preview on who it is.
At this stage I should point out that I’m not talking about the pop charts. No one gives a shit about that any more. The drama has gone out of it. It’s all been downhill since Jonah Lewie.
No, I’m talking about the new obsession, the all-important wikio rankings.
I may have given the impression over recent weeks that I’m quite obsessed by wikio rankings. If you believe that, you fell for my irony-laden trap. I don’t care. Honestly I don’t. Not about my position personally.
The only reason I’m writing about them now is that wikio ask a different blogger each month to reveal the latest monthly rankings in advance of official publication. This month, they asked me again. So I’m in a position to tell you who is the number one beer and/or wine blogger over Christmas, with no jealousy or bitterness whatsoever.
And so… *drumroll* step forward Brew Dog. You are the blogging world’s Cliff Richard.

1 Brew Dog Blog (=)
2 Pete Brown’s Blog (=)
3 Pencil & Spoon (=)
4 Tandleman’s Beer Blog (+2)
5 The Pub Curmudgeon (-1)
6 Woolpack Dave’s beer and stuff blog (-1)
7 Spittoon (+1)
8 The Beer Nut (-1)
9 Jamie goode’s wine blog (+6)
10 Stonch’s Beer Blog (=)
11 The Wine Conversation (+3)
12 The Bitten Bullet (+1)
13 Bibendum Wine (-2)
14 Reluctant Scooper (+3)
15 Real Ale Reviews (+3)
16 Brew Wales (-7)
17 Called to the bar (-5)
18 Taking the beard out of beer! (+7)
19 Tyson’s Beer Blog (+3)
20 Impy Malting (-4)

Ranking by Wikio

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Wicked Wikio!

Every month, Wikio compile rankings of UK blogs by subject, one of which is Gastronomy. Wikio explain that the position of a blog in the rankings is determined by the number and weight of incoming links from other blogs.  Then there’s some stuff about RSS feeds and algorithms which many of you probably understand but which to me is just a noise.  But the result is what they can authoritatively describe as the ‘most referenced’ blogs in a particular subject area.

I remember months ago Stonch was contacted by them to give an exclusive preview of that month’s rankings, because his blog featured in the top ten.  Of course, I had to have a look to see if I was in… and I crept in at number 48.  I was quite chuffed at having the 48th most referenced food and drink blog in the UK because it allowed me to make self-deprecating comments about my ‘success’, which are the only kind Mrs Pete Brown’s Beer Blog will tolerate.
Well, I can’t make them any more.  This month Wikio asked me to unveil the new figures, which I was very surprised by… then I saw I was up to number 6!
I’ll admit that when I saw I was only number 48 it did spur me to write a bit more frequently, but I’m blown away by this.  Thank you so much to everyone who links to my blog, for both your frequency and… um… weight.  Here’s the top twenty, due to be published tomorrow:
It’s great, considering that this is all food and drink, and that the top one belongs to The Guardian, that beer blogs feature so prominently. It shows that despite a tendency to moan in this medium, blogging has been a revelation for the beer community, and has allowed enthusiasts to gain a genuine influence in the world of not just beer, but broader food and drink coverage. I’ve only just broached the top twenty, probably due to Hops and Glory buzz, but Stonch and Tandleman are there every single month, hovering around the top ten.  When mainstream media continue to meet pitches from beer journalists with “I’m sorry, we just don’t cover beer, we don’t have room,” blogging reveals that there are talented writers, issues to be discussed, and an audience that wants to read them in the beer world.
And fair play to Wikio UK for categorising this area as ‘gastronomy’ – the US site follows the annoying trend that bookshops do and refers to ‘food and wine’, which always makes beer feel like a guest invited at the last minute to make up the numbers.  By accident or design, no beer blogs feature in the top 100.

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