Top 100 British Parent Bloggers - August 09

It’s that time again – so here for your delight and delectation are the Top 100 UK Mummy bloggers for this month.

Looking at the figures this month, a couple of things really stood out for me. For starters, this month there were fewer new entries, and most new entries were lower in the table;

If you submitted your blog I promise it was analysed but relatively few of the blogs scored highly enough to dislodge someone else from the index - I suspect because many of these blogs are still very new. Perhaps next month!

Also, there's definitely a lower average score because there are fewer posts overall, and this also impacts the number of recent links. I presume this is because you were all swanning off on your hols last month. Gits.

Once again, congratulations to everyone listed, and I hope you will spend some time exploring the blogs in the index - there really are some fantastic reads just waiting to be discovered here. If you’ve got any questions about how the index works, please just click on the FAQ page to the right to find out.

And of course, don't forget to get your blog badges by clicking on the link here.

If you’re not listed this month and you haven’t yet submitted your blog to Who’s the Mummy, please leave a comment on this post, and I’ll add you to the mix next time.

Right, let’s dive in!

The Top100 British Parent Blogs and Bloggers:

Rank	Blog	Score	Change
1	Alpha Mummy	715	+2
2	Jo Beaufoix	705	+2
3	Single Parent Dad	692	+6
4	The Potty Diaries	671	+4
5	Sticky Fingers	667	+7
6	English Mum	665	+5
7	Petite Anglaise	659	-6
8	Molly Chicken	658	-7
9	My Boyfriend is a Tw@t	659	+11
10	Notes from Inside my Head	631	+21
11	Bringing up Charlie	627	+2
12	Crystal Jigsaw	622	-7
13	More than just a Mother	621	+12
14	Wife in the North	605	+3
15	A Modern Mother	598	-9
16	Family Affairs	584	+18
17	Milla Country Lite	552	+3
18	Dulwich Divorcee	549	+5
19	Flowers, Fairies and Fairy Cakes	548	-9
20	Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman	546	-2
21	All That Comes with It	537	-14
22	Bambino Goodies	536	+6
23	Little Mummy	534	-8
24	Nappy Valley Girl	531	-2
25	Crunchie Mummy	530	NEW!
26	Not Supermum	519	-10
27	Babyccino Blog	499	-14
28	Breastfeeding Mothers’ Blog	494	+13
29	Brits in Bosnia	492	+11
30	Dulwich Mum	476	+3
31	Noble Savage	475	-4
32	WAHM-BAM	474	+19
33	Working Mum on Verge	473	+10
34	Home Office Mum	464	+10
35	Are We Nearly There Yet, Mummy?	462	-3
36	Nunhead Ramblings	460	-6
37	Millennium Housewife	457	-18
38	Violet Posy	452	+1
39	The Bedside Crow	446	-4
40	The Bush Babies	440	+8
41	Maternal Tales	428	+16
42	Nixd Minx	425	-6
43	Being a Mummy	420	+6
44	Menopausal Old Bag	418	+1
45	You’ve Got Your Hands Full	411	NEW!
46	Who’s the Mummy? (that’s me!)	410	+42
47	New Mummy	402	+24
48	Rosie Scribble	390	+40
49	Don’t Panic RTFM	395	-3
50	Musings of a Juggling Mother	391	+4
51	Perfectly Happy Mum	387	+25
52	Clareybabble	385	+29
53	Give me the Booger	384	=
54	Mother at Large	381	-14
55	Cotton Pickin’ Days	376	-18
58	Motherhood the final frontier	375	+1
59	Thames Valley Mums	368	-9
60	Frog in the Field	367	NEW!
61	3 Kids No Job	365	-37
62	A Confused Take That Fan	348	-7
63	Diary of a Surprised Mum	348	+1
64	The Brinkster	343	-1
65	Parentdish	339	+3
66	Mummy Do That	325	+4
67	Single and Surviving	325	-11
68	Wife of Bold	324	NEW!
69	I Promise That I will do my best	320	-7
70	Baby Baby	316	+22
71	Four Down, Mum to Go	311	+22
72	Caution: Woman at Work	302	+10
73	Littlesheep Learning	294	+2
74	Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em	281	+7
75	Family Relationships	266	-15
76	Mom or Mum Wars	263	-29
77	The Smell of Little Pong	259	-11
78	Mothers Who Work	253	-20
79	Half Mum, Half Biscuit	249	NEW!
80	Family Friendly Working	241	-13
81	A Place of My Own	239	NEW!
82	Forty Not Out	238	NEW!
83	Keir Royale	233	-22
84	Tales from the Naughty Step	225	-1
85	Family of Five	217	-21
86	Mrs Trefusis	216	-8
87	And 1 More Means Four	215	-3
88	Good Enough Mum	213	-15
89	The Baby Juggler	211	-17
90	Most Least	211	-13
91	Adventures of a Sleepless Todder	202	=
92	Self-Employed Mum	186	NEW!
93	Mum’s the Boss	180	NEW!
94	Miss Meep’s Guide to Living	178	-14
95	Motherworld	155	+1
96	View from Nappy Mountain	170	-11
97	Pink Fairy Cake	172	+1
98	Married with Four	160	-12
99	Yummy Mummy Tips	157	NEW!
100	Café Bebe	156	NEW!

JUST MISSED OUT THIS MONTH: Hot Cross Mum, Is that Me? How Did that Happen?, Suffolk Writings, Family Treehouse and Mummo Mia! were all within 5 points of the top 100. So close!

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Comments

[Sally]

Morning Everyone

Before anyone posts, I just wanted to add to this a couple of points:

1. If there's a typo or your link doesn't work, let me know. Me and HTML have an up and down relationship, so I'm aware there may be errors!

2. If you want to be linked next time it makes my life a lot easier if you can include your blog name and your blog URL, especially if the two are different!

Thanks everyone,

Sally

[Elaine]

Thanks so much for including me again - I'm glad to see I'm still on the up :o)

[Sally]

Elaine - I have to say, your stats this month were WAY up for engagement - have you been doing a lot of Tweeting or social bookmarking?

[Jen]

Hi there, I am new to this blogging lark and would love to get involved in this. I have a lot of new sites to start look through - what is your best advice to increase the traffic to my blog?

[Pippa]

Glad to see all my favourites are up there... Now I just have to be!

[Sean Cosgrove]

Please consider me next time! I'm at

http://papaetpiaf.wordpress.com

and the blog is called Papa et Piaf.

[Sally]

@Jen - gosh, you'd be better asking the people in the index that question!

My personal top tip for bloggers is always this: don't make the mistake of thinking a blog is something where you publish content. It's a way of accessing a community. A blog can only thrive if you engage with the community - read blogs, comment on blogs and link to blogs - not just on the blogs themselves, but use RSS, use Twitter to build connections, use Facebook to share your own posts. A little generosity goes a long way, I find.

(Oh, and knowing about keywords, SEO and social bookmarking won't hurt, but that's definitely NOT the most important thing, in my experience)

@ Pippa - would you like me to include you next time? If so, URL and blog name!

@Sean - no problem.

[notSupermum]

Sally, thanks again for your hard work in putting this together - I feel motivated to increase my blogs visibility, although I don't tweet or have Facebook. Will have to look at RSS and bookmarking.

Thanks for the tips.

[whistlejacket]

Great list, some good blogs here. Please could you look at my site next time round? http://www.babyrambles.blogspot.com

[Amanda]

Sally, how do you score these?! Having fun looking through them as usual :-)

I'll put mine, although it's still far too new :-) But what the heck!

Superwoman Wannabe
www.superwomanwannabe.co.uk

[Amanda]

Ignore my last question. I found the FAQ page. Sounds terribly confusing! You are one clever (patient) lady!

[Brit in Bosnia]

Argh! I'm sure I was on the list this morning. Could be the fastest chart plummet in history!

[Sally]

You're number 30. I deleted you while trying to fix your link, evidently. Truly, my skills with HTML are AWE INSPIRING, people.

[will revive you now, sorry about that!]

[Karen @ If I Could Escape (Crunchie Mummy)]

Hello! I'm so excited to see mine included! Thank you!!

[New Mummy]

Thank you putting this list together again, you are one busy lady!

wow up 24 places I'm sooo happy

Could I please add my new blog for next time is called New Mummy's Tips http://newmummystips.blogspot.com

NM x

[OMG We're Pregnant]

**** WELL DONE EVERYONE ****

Some great new entries in there!

Please consider my blog next time.

OMG We're Pregnant
http://omgip.blogspot.com

THank you xx

[Laura WOB]

Wow Sally i have just read your tweet and i can't believe i made it and a fandabbydosy 68 wow i'm astounded! I did check it out yesterday, secretly hoping i would be on, but i didn't see myself and quickly checked myself for being all about the numbers as i promised i wouldn't get caught up in it all - but i am sooo happy!!! Thank you and how on earth did i make it on here? Please let me know what the scores relate to i'd love to know when you get a minute x

[clareybabble]

Oooh I'm on the up!! Thanks for doing this Sally xx

[Coding Mamma (Tasha)]

Thanks, Sally, as ever. Nice to be moving on up, though probably more to do with other people going on holiday!

[Sally]

@Karen - you're welcome!

@NewMummy - it's already included. Too new to make the index as yet, I suspect, but I'm sure in a couple of months!

@OMGiP - we'll definitely include you next time

@LauraWOB - check out the FAQ to the right, which explains what the scores are based on. Happy to answer any further questions, too.

@Clare and Tasha - You are both definitely on the up - hurrah!

[Potty Mummy]

Wow Sally, wasn't expecting an update this month so that's a really great surprise. Thanks!

[Sally]

No problem - and congrats on making the top 5!

[Emma]

Amazing blogs listed! I can see myself spending the rest of the day reading/following some of these blogs! :)

I hope one I can write a blog as good as these.. (Not the best blogger/writer around!)

My Blog is http://pokeintheeyewithastick.blogspot.com/

[Tara@Sticky Fingers]

Wow. Just wow.
Very honoured to be on the list and very honoured to be in such amazing company.
I regularly read many many of those listed here and they are all excellent in very different ways.
Ladies and gents - and SPD - , this only goes to show what a fabulous growing community we are all building and I am so proud to be part of it.
And now I'm going to have a cup of tea to celebrate.
x

[Liz@VioletPosy]

Sally you're a star. I did well considering my blog was down for 7 days while I was on holiday and didn't notice - oops! Thanks for all your hard work and I look forward to reading all the new entries :)

[Liz]

Hi Sally,

Thanks for all your help with Technorati - still wrestling with it but hopefully will get there in the end. Fingers crossed my blog makes it next time. Liz (LivingwithKids)x

http://www.kidstart.co.uk/livingwithkids

[Insomniac Mummy]

I'm new to blogging, only been doing it a week or so. Good to see some of the blogs I have been loving up there :).

Would love to be considered next time.....or the time after.

Blog name: Insomniac Mummy
URL: http://insomniacmummy.blogspot.com

Off to have a read of some more blogs from the list now.

:)

[Pippa]

How silly am I? I thought I would wait before adding me to the list so that I could improve lol. My url is http://amothersramblings.blogspot.com/ and the blog is called A Mothers Ramblings.

Oh and Thank you for this, as it has shown me a lot of new and great blogs!

[Sally]

No worries, will add all of these to the September mix.

[Dee Parrot]

Oh, I'd love to be included in this list. I'm very new to blogging, but it's going great so far.

[London City Mum]

Some fantastic blogs and so pleased to see a number of the ones I follow in your list. Hats off to you Sally for the incredible effort in putting this together.
LCM

[Liz (LivingwithKids)]

Sally it's amazing that you do this. I would be so pleased if you would consider my blog for September, Lizx

[TheMadHouse]

I am another newby too, so no chance a the moment, but you never know in years to comeQQQ

[Victoria]

Lots of my favourite blogs here. I obviously have good taste ;)

Please could I submit my blog? it's http://itsasmallworldafterallfamily.wordpress.com

thanks

[Laura Driver]

Hi Sally, I am one of several bloggers writing for a new blog called www.havealovelytime.com and it has been received well, linked to etc so please can you add this to the list?

[Kassia]

Love these blogs! Thanks for the list.

Just started my own blog at:
http://working-mum.co.uk

[Sian To]

Hi Sally, I just wanted to say a big thank you. I have only been blogging for a few months so to get an entry is fantastic. Here's to me making it past number 99 next month. xx
http://yummymummytips.com

[Dawn]

Hi Sally - I would love to be considered for this - my blog is http://www.littlegreenfingers.com - and thank you so much for putting this list together - I have been looking for a source of great mother-based blogs for ages and now I know where to find it.

Cheers

Dawn

[Claire Lancaster]

I can't keep up with my google reader at the best of times let alone with many new to me blogs listed here. Also new to the parent blogging scene but would love you to consider my blog next time. Thanks in advance.
Claire x
http://clairelancaster.wordpress.com

[Lee Willis]

Great list - could you consider the SnugBaby blog next time around:

The diary of a work-at-home mum with a passion for slings - http://www.snugbaby.co.uk/blog/

[Lorraine Wade]

All these great blogs to read, I can feel my google reader screaming as we speak. Please consider my blog next time although it is quite new.

http://ramblingsofamumontherun.blogspot.com

[leslieanne]

I'm pretty sure I'm not famous enough to stand a chance of making the list (still pretty new!), but what the hell, feel free to consider http://lifewithalittledude.blogspot.com/ :)

[Lynda Hamilton]

Hi, relatively new to this but grateful if you could consider my blog next time around at www.lookingforlynda.blogspot.com

[SNOB]

http://badhousewives.blogspot.com/

Please add me to the mix!

[whistlejacket]

Still a very new site - please could you consider it? I've already put it in a comment above but link was wrong: http://babyrambles.blogspot.com

[Gabriel]

Great list, i'd also like to chuck my hat in the ring please: http://singwhenyouresleeping.blogspot.com/

[Deb]

I'm sure I have got enough whatevers to make it worth your while doing the figures on my blog.

Do you only do the ones that people ask or do you check out all the ones you know about. And do you automatically do all the ones in the previous month's list?

I'll put mine forward this month, but honestly, don't worry if you don't get round to it. Do feel I'll be wasting your time a bit.

[Amanda M]

I'm at blog 67 (I started at 100 and am counting up), and it's taken me two weeks to get there. Should be done by Christmas! Too much to read - in a very good way. Thank you for the post(s); much more reliable and a lot more fun than anything I get through the letterbox. We're the new kids on the block, and have spent far too much time blog- rather than park-side this summer. We like to rant http://tinyurl.com/nnnmbj and love London! Come and say hello.

[Deb]

Doh, forgot to add my url www.carrotsandkids.com

Thank you!

[Kitschy Coo]

Hi there, just found you link-hopping from Twitter. I recently joined BMB and I'd love to be added to your stats too :)

Kitschy Coo
www.kitschycoo.blogspot.com