TopOfBlogs Official Blog

For quite some time, our users have asked for the ability to sort blogs using different criteria. Today we launched a new feature that  will allow you to sort the blogs based on:

• Pageviews
• Feedcount
• Google PageRank
• Alexa
• Technorati
• Sent Out

and of course on all these, you can apply the Country or Language filters.

As always your feedback is welcomed, so feel free to send us your suggestions, ideas, bug reports, or comments at any time.

As many of you have noticed already we have rolled out a cool new feature: feedcount. Since many people are reading blogs using a rss reader, comparing blogs only on pageviews is not at all accurate. So we added to our system another metric starting today, and this is the feedcount. It works for any feedburner feed that has the awareness api public (the default) and we update this value daily (as provided by feedburner) .

This value is added to the pageviews and counts in our global ranking. For blogs that don’t have a feedburner feed we are unable to get this metric and we would really suggest that you get your rss feed from feedburner.  It is free and has many other cool features.

Note: if you want to change your existing feed on your topofblogs listing you can do this from your account (using any of the automatically advertised feeds on your blog).

I hope you will enjoy this new feature and we are looking forward for your feedback and suggestions on how we can improve topofblogs even more.

The moment when we realized that we have to stop open submissions was a sad moment for us. From day one, our main concern was to have the submission process as simple as possible. We were naive enough to believe that people will read our terms of service and not add blogs that should not be allowed in our directory. Unfortunately this was not true. And with more and more blogs being added everyday this got worse and worse.

This being said, we are forced to introduce the manual verification step, and starting today all blogs will be verified by our editors. If one blog is found to be outside our terms of service, it will be suspend and completely ignore any other submissions for that particular blog url. While if the blog is accepted the user will receive the email notification and can start using our system right away.
Even though he have a high number of daily submissions we are trying to process every submission in maximum two business days (normally this is much shorter – like a couple of hours).

For bloggers the process should be the same as before. Our crawler tries to do its best and make it as easy as possible to submit your blog. If you are confident that your blog is ’safe’ and not breaking any of our terms of services you can even add you tracking code immediately. If you have any concerns, we would suggest you to wait for the email notification (sent only on accepted blogs).

This action should ensure that only quality blogs are accepted in our toplist directory and this should be beneficial for both bloggers and also the general users browsing our site.

Starting today you can choose to no longer show the topofblogs tracking image on your blog. If you prefer, you can set this to a transparent image and it will no longer appear on your blog, while still tracking all your pageviews. This appears as a new choice at registration, but you can use if also for any registered blogs. Just go to your account and for the blog you want to do this, select the transparent image option, and then get your new html code and update it on your blog.

We have launched this new feature, that is quite unique amongst similar sites to our knowledge, in order for our members to be able to choose their preferred method:

• if you prefer you can show the image that is presenting your current rank inside your main category. This will visualy show your visitators the rank your blog has among other similar blogs in the same niche.
• while if you prefer, you can now hide this image, and still benefit from tracking your blog correctly. This was done for people that didn’t wanted a new graphic design to mess with their blog layout, or just prefer to not show the rank they have on their blogs.

We have just released a new version of our site that includes the most requested feature: a search box. Before, you could find blogs based on the general top, their category or their tags. Still, with the number of blogs growing every day a search box was really needed.

You can now use the top search box to find blogs, based on their name, description, or tags inside the whole directory. The results are sorted by the general rankings, meaning you will always see the ‘best’ blogs first.

If you have any suggestions for us, please use the contact form, and, as you can see we are working to implement all of your good ideas, to bring TopOfBlogs one step closer to our goal: to become the best top of blogs directory.