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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:
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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About Sally
Sally is a full-time blogger and founder of the MAD Blog Awards and the Tots100, a community of almost 5,000 UK parent blogs. She is also a busy single Mum to Flea, the world's coolest seven year old.
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
Thanks so much for including me again – I’m glad to see I’m still on the up
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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?
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?
Glad to see all my favourites are up there… Now I just have to be!
Please consider me next time! I’m at
http://papaetpiaf.wordpress.com
and the blog is called Papa et Piaf.
@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.
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.
Great list, some good blogs here. Please could you look at my site next time round? http://www.babyrambles.blogspot.com
Sally, how do you score these?! Having fun looking through them as usual
But what the heck!
I’ll put mine, although it’s still far too new
Superwoman Wannabe
http://www.superwomanwannabe.co.uk
Ignore my last question. I found the FAQ page. Sounds terribly confusing! You are one clever (patient) lady!
Argh! I’m sure I was on the list this morning. Could be the fastest chart plummet in history!
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!]
Hello! I’m so excited to see mine included! Thank you!!
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
**** 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
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
Oooh I’m on the up!! Thanks for doing this Sally xx
Thanks, Sally, as ever. Nice to be moving on up, though probably more to do with other people going on holiday!
@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!
Wow Sally, wasn’t expecting an update this month so that’s a really great surprise. Thanks!
No problem – and congrats on making the top 5!
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/
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
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
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
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
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Would love to be considered next time…..or the time after.
Blog name: Insomniac Mummy
Off to have a read of some more blogs from the list now.
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!
No worries, will add all of these to the September mix.
Oh, I’d love to be included in this list. I’m very new to blogging, but it’s going great so far.
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
Sally it’s amazing that you do this. I would be so pleased if you would consider my blog for September, Lizx
I am another newby too, so no chance a the moment, but you never know in years to comeQQQ
Lots of my favourite blogs here. I obviously have good taste
Please could I submit my blog? it’s http://itsasmallworldafterallfamily.wordpress.com
thanks
Hi Sally, I am one of several bloggers writing for a new blog called http://www.havealovelytime.com and it has been received well, linked to etc so please can you add this to the list?
Love these blogs! Thanks for the list.
Just started my own blog at:
http://working-mum.co.uk
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
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
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
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/
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
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/
Hi, relatively new to this but grateful if you could consider my blog next time around at http://www.lookingforlynda.blogspot.com
http://badhousewives.blogspot.com/
Please add me to the mix!
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
Great list, i’d also like to chuck my hat in the ring please: http://singwhenyouresleeping.blogspot.com/
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.
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.
Doh, forgot to add my url http://www.carrotsandkids.com
Thank you!
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
http://www.kitschycoo.blogspot.com
Fantastic list – be wonderful if you would consider my blog next month
blog name Tish Tash Toys
URL http://www.tishtashtoys.com/blog/
Thanks ever so much.
Sharon
Oh great – new blogs to explore
Can’t remember if I asked last time, but please can you consider me for next month (www.muddlingalongmummy.blogspot.com)
My blog is “Not wrong, just different”, written by Iota, and I’d be intrigued to see how it fares against the top 100.
Weblink is http://www.blogiota.blogspot.com
would love to be considered for your next index. am at http://liveotherwise.co.uk/makingitup.
Thanks.
Thanks everyone for commenting and we’ll add you anon.
@Jax – hi and welcome, of course we’ll add you this month. Did you see I’d tried to comment on your blog?
http://4little1s.4little1s.com/blog
I would love to be listed! http://enchantedphotoportraits.blogspot.com/ – Fairy Photo Portraits
The ramblings of a WAHM! Fairymaker, Magical Photo Enhancement creations
It’s a great list you have compiled – I wish I had time to fully explore all the links and blogs!
Thanks for including me. I’m thrilled to see I’ve climbed 40 places!