It’s an epic battle of biblical proportions in the blogosphere.
1,249,720 blogs have talked about India in the last 24 hours[1]. Ever since internet started exploding in India in 2002, hundreds and thousands of people have taken to blogging. A million minds are speaking out together at the same time. So who is the one who is getting heard, who are the people listening to.
This the question I set out to answer.
And the answer wasn’t easy. Every blog community comes out with it’s own answers, but those are not the ones I was looking for. I was looking for an impartial barometer, which could tell me quantitatively, about where the wind was flowing, or as they say in the blogosphere, where the clicks were going.
When no single widget covers all of the Indian blogs, when no single Award could manage to draw even 0.005% of the online population, when no community catered for all the blogs that existed, I decided to choose that option which had the largest sample size. And that is how I turned to Alexa.
Humans are not perfect, so how can you expect programs made by them to be perfect. Yes, Alexa has it’s own flaws, but it does have access to the largest sample size in the Indian Blogosphere. (By the way, the guys have Alexa have completely lost it now. This is bad.).
its about their ability to be so close to The News, that they’re either creating it, reporting it, or delivering it. These guys, through their connections, their businesses, or their activities are real influences in the real industry of choice.You cannot BUT help but pay attention to them because they are a genuine source of News in any way that you want to define it.
And its ludicrous to say that ‘a-listers’ don’t exist.
Read the complete post here.
So after three days, of a massive hunt for the most widely recognized blogs on our terrain, I am finally here with my final list on Indian blogs, which I can conclusively say are the “A-list of the Indian Blogosphere“. (This post is tagged ‘Indexxxer‘ on technorati, do link up to that too)
If you are in the list, I’m sure you already know you’re one of them. But if you aren’t, now you know how far away you are from the top dogs of our huge online blogging community.
So I bring to you, The Complete A-List of The Indian Blogosphere
(based on the Alexa Rank for the last 3 months, dated 27 March 2007)
Also available in pdf format, absolutely Free, click here to get it.
Now, for the ones at the top :
In the third place, is Quick Tips Online, your one stop shop for everything technology, blogging, software, and Web 2.0.
In the second place, is the Best Social Networking Site in India, IndianPad, who over the last one year have gotten rid of all the luggage which was taking them down. Life has been uphill for IndianPad since.
In the first place, is the one and only, the untiring Amit Agarwal. The best Indian Professional Blogger. With 2,240 links, he is also ranked 326 amongst 55 million blogs in Technorati.
Here is the rest of the list. You can read it here, or download it in pdf format here.
In the latest figures, Indianpad seems to be on top. Link
Rank Alexa Name
01. 006,998 Digital Inspiration
02. 007,732 IndianPad
03. 013,154 Quick Online Tips
04. 030,529 Tech Buzz
05. 036,136 Content Sutra
06. 045,388 Tech Whack
07. 051,848 AlooTechie
08. 051,900 Sepia Mutiny
09. 057,602 Kamat
10. 075,448 Anil Dash
11. 083,592 Nandyala
12. 091,923 Pixrat
13. 097,747 Movalog
14. 098,896 NaachGaana
15. 099,051 VC Circle
16. 116,511 Emergic
17. 120,875 Go Nomad
18. 125,496 Desicritics
19. 175,813 Starupus.in
20. 198,861 BotHack
21. 202,114 WatBlog
22. 205,432 IPatrix
23. 212,174 WebYantra
24. 224,486 Desi Pundit
25. 225,613 India Marks
26. 225,742 IndiaUncut (Blogger)
27. 231,294 Gautam Ghosh
28. 242,188 Great Bong
29. 244,324 iFace Thoughts
30. 244,971 Micheal Parekh on IT
31. 248,068 Akshargram
32. 263,385 Lazy Geek
33. 264,149 Youth Curry
34. 271,991 Venture Woods
35. 277,097 Indiagram
36. 285,567 IndiBloggies
37. 299,422 Quick Online Tips (Older)
38. 334,981 Swaroop CH
39. 339,352 Indian Bytes
40. 348,118 Infeedia
41. 348,366 Goa Blog
42. 357,108 Kiruba Shankar
43. 361,717 Humsurfer
44. 388,764 RamBhai
45. 393,010 HumSabka
46. 397,420 Put Vote
47. 458,720 Indian Economy
48. 465,769 Startup Duniya
49. 468,992 Ultra Brown
50. 494,054 Atanu Dey’s Deesha.org
51. 508,405 Gilli
52. 513,603 Mutiny
53. 513,711 Hooked on Heat
54. 526,971 Ramdhanyk
55. 536,330 Nanopolitan
56. 580,056 Chinta
57. 582,820 Kalyan Verma
58. 612,860 Word Log
59. 612,947 C Kunte
60. 619,598 Mobile Pundit
61. 622,997 Shripriya
62. 630,246 Thoughts in Tamil
63. 653,666 Within and Without
64. 667,259 Sakshi Juneja
65. 669,573 India Uncut (New)
66. 673,428 Mallu Spice
67. 686,250 Media Junk
68. 675,299 Anita Bora
69. 677,469 New Delhi Times
70. 724,577 Sambhar Mafia
71. 759,077 Kodakarapuranams
72. 779,826 Turban Head
73. 797,715 News Cola
74. 820,471 Ouch My Toe
75. 823,251 Recursive Hypocrisy
76. 823,678 Madman’s Web
77. 845,402 Sampada
78. 851,438 Vantage Point
79. 855,929 Taekada
80. 878,835 Jabberwock
That was long huh.
Here are some more great blogs which I had missed earlier.
Other Indian Blogs. (You don’t have to be A-list to Kick Ass)
0,026,083 JohnTP.com: Make money Online
0,050,874 Ajay Dsouza: On the road called life
0,064,574 Brajeshwar: Flash Platform Analyst
0,462,066 DesiTrain: The Oz
0,146,729 BinnyVA: DIY Technology
0,200,829 The Newspaper Blog
0,284,156 Deziner Folio: Everything Tech
0,933,456 Navin Kabra’s Blog: The blog of a senior research scientist at Symantec.
1,107,942 Vivek: On being in the A-List (Link)
1,927,873 Snap Judgement: India is my home country, America is my home town.
So now, where do we go from here?
I don’t know about you, but I have all plans to keep updating this list every three weeks, based of course on Alexa. But if you have any better suggestions, please drop me a comment, or contact me here.
And what if you not on this list?
I’m not going to make it too hard on myself. Only if your blog ranks amongst the top 5,00,000 on Alexa (you can check here), link this post from your blog, and as soon as I see it here, I’ll add you here.
And how will you find out if I’ve linked to you or not? Just subscribe here by email or rss, and we’ll be in touch.
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March 28th, 2007 at 3:39 am
My reactions on my blog but nevertheless a worthwhile exercise. BTW, did you check the Alexa ranking of Debonair Blog?
March 28th, 2007 at 8:52 am
The numbers made me feel good, thanks! Though I do not believe in their accuracy
BTW, one correction, the blog title is “iface thoughts”. iface is one word - a shortform for interface.
One good thing this list does is collects a lot of good Indian blogs together, I will suggest eliminate the ranking, the list by itself is pretty good.
March 28th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Patrix, I get your point
I’ll try this with Technorati, the next time.
Abhijit, done, it’s iFace now. Maybe the next time I’ll get rid of the rankings too.
Most of the times, people link to posts they like, and you don’t care what the rank of the blog is. But this time I wanted to see, which ones are getting more traffic.
March 28th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Dugg (folks, please digg this one up) and linked from my personal blog, good effort and well-presented, but Alexa is an unreliable source.
Don’t care much about rankings, great collection of blogs - where’s Om Malik, DebonairBlog, etc.?
Looking forward to the enhanced lists.
Aaman Lamba
March 28th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
I didn’t add GigaOM because that didn’t seem to belong here anymore.
As for Debonairblog, I didn’t think you would ask
March 28th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
My fave desi site MasalaGuru is missing as well!
Seriously dude, this is some good work. I didn’t know half these sites so thanks for that…
March 28th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Anon, I chose to skip porn sites.
March 28th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Thanks for the list! I would like to suggest my blog for this list…
http://binnyva.blogspot.com(Rank 146,729)
[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbinnyva.blogspot.com%2F]
March 28th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Hi, good effort but there are some issues.
1. We at the Mutiny is listed as mutiny.wordpress.com at alexa
Mutiny.in is ranked much lower because we are forwarding from that URL.
2. We only started referencing/tagging ‘India’ very recently.
3. When you say ‘Indian’, it would be great if you can stick to ‘Indian’ blogs. Not south asian, desi or brown blogs.
best regards,
Jacob
March 28th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Hi Jacob,
I chose the blogs from a variety of resources, not just those tagged ‘india’.
You would agree that it is almost impossible to be absolutely sure if a certain blog is Indian. Countries are defined on land, here it is impossible and unwise to do so. I have tried to be as accurate as possible.
Finally, I chose blogs which had a high alexa ranking, so I chose your older one.
March 28th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
You missed johntp.com Its ranked 22000. BTW alexa ranking will obviously be more for blogs with more viewers in US and no uses alexa toolbar in India!!
March 29th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Perhaps you missed mine - Brajeshwar
March 29th, 2007 at 12:25 am
http://www.dezinerfolio.com/ is a must to be put here. Born 1 month ago, it has been very successful
March 29th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Sharique, Brajeshwar and anonymous, thanks for the link.
March 31st, 2007 at 2:25 am
IndiaSphere.net - current Alexa rank: 239,975
March 31st, 2007 at 8:49 am
sukshma.net Alexa Rank: 315,760
Here are the traffic details for sukshma.net.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:16 am
What about this new site?
http://www.bestofindya.com
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Lightning Strikes Everyday
http://hawkeyeview.blogspot.com
Rank: 1,002,356
April 6th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Hi Sudhanshu,
Very interesting list. Great job. There is (was?) a need to have a list of top Indian blogs, and hopefully over time your list will become the “authoritative” source.
Thanks for including my personal blog - even though it is not in the top 80.
Anyway, I just wanted to point you to another blog that I am associated with - Without Giving The Movie Away. It is a new blog and its Alexa ranking is fast increasing (inspite of the fact that most of its readership tends to be non-tech-savvy (i.e. people without Alexa toolbars)). I did not link to this post from that blog because it would be completely irrelevant to the content of that blog. Please take a look.
navin.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
You’ve missed mine: The Newspaper Blog.
The Alexa rank is around 200k.
I’ve blogged about this in my blog: Is The Newspaper Blog an A-List Indian Blog?.
April 14th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Add my blog mate!
http://www.formatnreload.blogspot.com
April 21st, 2007 at 1:04 am
Check out the ranking 541,160 and still rising.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=informationmadness.com
http://www.informationmadness.com/cms
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