The Power 150 is a ranking of the top English-language marketing blogs in the world, as developed by marketing executive and blogger, Todd Andrlik. I applied today today to see how I’d do.
Within hours came the reply:
Thanks for submitting your blog to the Power 150. Unfortunately, because of high demand, we can only accept applicants who score at least 40 total objective points &ndash that is, before a Todd Score is added into your total. Because of the way Collective Intellect scores are collected, they, along with Todd scores, cannot be added to a blog’s total until it is made live on the Power 150. We’ve grabbed your raw scores for the rest of our metrics, scaled them out of 150 points, and here is your point breakdown:
PostRank (1 to 50): 10
Yahoo InLinks (1 to 30): 1
Alexa Points (1 to 25): 3
TOTAL: 13You are welcome to resubmit your blog once you’ve built up some more links and influence, although we ask that you wait at least three months before doing so. Hopefully, you’ll make it in next time, and, if not, there’s no limit to the amount of times you can reapply, as long as they’re three months apart.
Next step: learning more about the criteria.
Any readers out there want to author a post about these? (I don’t know when I’ll have the chance.)
The Power150 is a somewhat odd scaling criteria. The Alexa and Yahoo link values don’t connect very well with niche writers on specific topics.
123 floats between the 300 to 500 ranking (it goes up and down a bit) and is often underscored as a reader base as it is designed around a “blog network” concept rather than a centralized destination.
On the other hand, they skew the PostRank data to include only the past 30 days… so if you don’t post frequently and with good quality the point level will become erratic.
If you want to be included in some other top list: take a look at submitting to Alltop.com and TopRankBlog.com
~Barry
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Thanks, Barry, for stopping by and the comment.
You’ve likely written more on the topic. You can link to it here or I’m happy to post your insights with you as guest blogger.
Joe