Top 100 British Mummy Bloggers - September 09

The UK Mummy Blogging scene is getting hectic! Lots of new entries for this month’s index of the top 100 UK Mummy Bloggers, and some big movements in the table, too.

This month, we’re delighted to announce that the highest new entry in the index will win a prize – a free set of cards or announcements from the fantastic Ella Announcements. So congratulations to OMG We're Pregnant – email me for details of how to claim your prize!

We had lots of submissions that didn’t make the index. If you’re wondering “Why didn’t my blog make it?” the most likely explanation is that your blog is just too new – one of the key things the index measures is how many people link to your content from other blogs and websites – if you only have a couple of these links, your chances of being in the top 100 would be pretty slim. Check out the FAQ and if you'd like to know more, get in touch by commenting or via Twitter.

Once again, congratulations to everyone making the top 100. Every month, I’m amazed by the diversity and quality of writing on these blogs. Although we talk about “Mummy blogs” a quick browse reveals great diversity among British Mummy Bloggers – from crafts to cooking, parenting, politics and even biting satire.

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 go!

The Top100 British Parent Blogs and Bloggers:

Rank	Blog	Score	Change
1	Alpha Mummy	860	=
2	Petite Anglaise	840	+5
3	Molly Chicken	834	+5
4	A Modern Mother	827	+11
5	Sticky Fingers	823	=
6	Potty Diaries	821	-2
7	Jo Beaufoix	816	-5
8	Bringing up Charlie	795	+3
9	Single Parent Dad	794	-6
10	Crystal Jigsaw	790	+2
11	Noble Savage	779	+20
12	All That Comes With It	778	+9
13	Wife in the North	768	+1
14	Babyccino Blog	742	+13
15	English Mum	735	-9
16	Bambino Goodies	727	+5
17	Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman	720	+3
18	Notes From Inside my Head	713	-8
19	Who’s the Mummy?	672	+27
20	Family Affairs and Other Matters	671	-4
21	Violet Posy	670	+17
22	Nixd Minx	667	+20
23	Millennium Housewife	664	+14
24	More Than Just a Mother	651	-11
25	Nappy Valley Girl	641	-1
26	WAHM-BAM	630	+6
27	The Bedside Crow	619	+12
28	The Dulwich Divorcee	605	-10
29	Not Supermum	603	-3
30	Maternal Tales	599	+11
31	Family Friendly Working	595	+49
32	Working Mum on Verge	583	+1
33	Brits in Bosnia	581	-4
34	Nunhead Ramblings	577	+2
35	Little Mummy	576	-12
36	You’ve Got Your Hands Full	575	+9
37	Flower Fairies and Fairy Cakes	568	-17
38	Country Lite	556	-21
39	Crunchie Mummy	555	-14
40	Motherhood: the final frontier	549	+18
41	Are We Nearly There Yet Mummy?	541	-6
42	Mummy Do That!	538	-4
43	Dulwich Mum	537	-13
44	Menopausal Old Bag	536	=
45	New Mummy	532	+2
46	Home Office Mum	514	-12
47	OMG We’re Pregnant	512	NEW!
48	Not Wrong Just Different	509	NEW!
49	Thames Valley Mums	507	+10
50	Rebel Mother	504	NEW!
51	A Midwife’s Muse	502	NEW!
52	Cotton Pickin’ Days	501	+3
53	Being a Mummy	499	-10
54	Breastfeeding Mums’ Blog	491	-26
55	Frog in the Field	490	+5
56	Baby Baby	487	+24
57	Clareybabble	481	-5
58	Bush Babies	480	-18
59	Mother at Large	479	-5
60	3 Kids No Job	478	+1
61	Perfectly Happy Mum	465	-10
62	Parentdish	461	+3
63	Live Otherwise	459	NEW!
64	Mrs Trefusis	454	+22
65	A Confused Take That Fan	453	-3
66	The Brinkster	434	+4
67	More to Life Than Laundry	433	NEW!
68	Mom or Mum Wars	419	+8
69	Four Down, Mum to Go	410	+2
70	Give Me The Booger	407	-17
71	Some Mothers Do ‘Ave Em	406	+3
72	Family Relationships Magazine	391	+3
73	Single and Surviving	389	-6
74	I Promise that I will do my Best	388	-5
75	Diary of a Surprise Mum	381	-12
76	Don’t Panic. RTFM.	363	-27
77	Have a Lovely Time	362	NEW!
78	Forty Not Out	361	+4
79	Being Lucy Diamond	360	NEW!
80	Rosie Scribble	359	-32
81	Littlesheep Learning	358	-8
82	And One More Means Four	350	+5
83	Musings of a Juggling Mother	349	-33
84	A Place of my Own	343	-3
85	Wife of Bold	328	-17
86	Most/Least	321	+4
87	Caution: Woman at Work	310	-15
88	Really Rachel	305	NEW!
89	Son Time Now	302	NEW!
90	Positive Parenting	301	NEW!
91	Smell of Little Pong	294	-14
92	Kitschy Coo	287	NEW!
93	Keir Royale	283	-10
94	Tales from the Naughty Step	273	-10
95	Mothers on the Verge	270	NEW!
96	Tattie Weasel	264	NEW!
97	Family of Five	262	-12
98	The Baby Juggler	259	-9
99	It’s a Small World	245	NEW!
100	Hot Cross Mum	241	NEW!

JUST MISSED OUT THIS MONTH: Sleep is for the Weak (presuming because of your URL change!), Married with Four, Muddling Along Mummy and View from Nappy Mountain were all within 10 points of the top 100. Well done!

Comments

[clareybabble]

I've gone down, never mind! :)

[Insomniac Mummy]

Congrats everyone:).

Would love to be considered next time.

http://insomniacmummy.com

Ta much!

[Muddling Along Mummy]

Bounce bounce bounce I'm within 10 points of the top 100 ... maybe next month !

Off now to read lots of lovely new blogs !

[Tasha]

You have two 'Tales from Nappy Valley' in there. And I'm not there. Might have fallen off, of course, but could you double-check, just in case? Thanks, Sally.

[Josie @Sleep is for the Weak]

Oh bugger. Now there was me deciding not to be included in this cause it would just stress me out and you've gone and thrown me in anyway (which was lovely of you) - and now I'm all like "damn! I didn't make it!" and moping...

Oh well. The new site has only been live a fortnight! So maybe that's why.

Thanks anyway lovely

And a big well done to everyone on the list!
x

(mope... mope... mope...come visit and cheer me up...)

[Amanda]

Please consider me for next time
www.superwomanwannabe.co.uk

[Sharon - Tish Tash Toys]

Well done to everyone - working hard on the http://www.tishtashtoys.com blog so hope to make it on there one day soon!

[Maternal Tales]

Well done Sally - I can't imagine how much work this must be for you. And congrats on being such a high climber!

[grit]

some new blogs to try, thank you.

and in the interests of promoting all things positive about home education (ok, some of the negative stuff as well) please add http://gritsday.blogspot.com to the mix next time!

if you do a chart of the first 5,000 this home ed blog might just storm through.

[OMG We're Pregnant]

Oooooh a new entry for me, and a prize! Yay! Thank you xx

[Liz]

Hi Sally,

You really are a star to do this.

Hopefully we'll get there next time!

Liz (LivingwithKids)

[Liz]

Sorry url is http://www.kidstart.co.uk/livingwithkids

[liveotherwise]

thanks for including http://liveotherwise.co.uk/makingitup - found out via my stats as have had a couple of visitors trickle through :) Just wondering, how do you work out which twitter accounts are linked to which blog?

[Snafflesmummy]

Well done to everyone. hope i manage to make the list one day

[Emma]

Would love to be included!! :)

http://pokeintheeyewithastick.blogspot.com/

[Hot Cross Mum]

Oh I am so delighted to have made it onto the list. Many congrats to everyone and all the great new entries. New shoes - here I come!!

[Victoria]

Wow, I've made it on, thanks.

[SandyCalico]

Thanks for putting this together Sally, it must take ages. And I've gone up - amazing. I thought I'd had a quiet month blog-wise!

[Laura Driver]

Hi Sally - Bit disappointed that you used the old blog address again after I brought to your attention last month that it was the wrong one. Still, good that a blog that hasn't been touched in 3 months is in the top 50!

For October can you use www.arewenearlythereyetmummy.com address please.

[Jo Beaufoix]

Congrats everyone. Down 5 for me though. Ahh well, where's the chocolate. :D

[Sally]

@Laura - I can adjust the score to reflect the new address only, but it does mean you move down the table, so I thought you'd prefer my combo-approach!

Just to explain to anyone who might be considering moving their blog:

My view is that when you move to a new blog address, you’re not starting from scratch as a completely new blogger – you’re still benefiting from some of those old links to your pre-existing site.

So when I do the monthly analysis, I look at both addresses and if I think you’d lose out by not including the old address, I generally include both addresses.

For AWNTYM, your new site has more inbound links than the old site, but your old site has significantly more Google hits overall, a higher Technorati Authority and lots more Technorati Reactions. It seemed counter-intuitive to me to discount all those links to your content because it's now hosted at a new address - so we use the old address for those metrics, until the new address catches up.

For scores like recent Google hits, Postrank scores for this month's content, current subscribers and Twitter Grader, we will only use current data - because these metrics reflect current usage of your blog.

I'd expect at some point for your new address to catch up with the old one, at which point we'd stop taking it into account - but I do feel that old blog addresses should be taken into account when looking at the data, and it's not fair to penalise someone when they've moved to a new address.

I hope that makes sense. Like most things, it's imperfect, but I'm not sure of a better way of doing it - interested in ideas, though!

[Yummy Mammy]

Always manages to confuse me how you work this all out, but any chance of being considered next month??? xx

[Antonia]

Thanks for doing this - and yay to the meteoric rise. Either my hard work from previous months is paying off, or what you needto do to rise up the ranks is neglect your blog to play with the kids and launch a book or two!

[Carly]

Please consider me next time :)

WADs (Wives & Daughters)

http://wadswivesanddaughters.blogspot.com

[Noble Savage]

Thanks for doing this, it's such a great and useful list. Nearly cracked the top 10. Next time... ;-)

[Sian]

Hi Sally,
I think that I am not the only person out here in blogland that would be interested to know in a point by point list how you create your Top 100. It would be helpful if the information was listed along side the list.
Thanks,
sian.

[Sally]

@YummyMummy - will definitely add you next month!

@Antonia - well done, your engagement figures this month were off the scale!

@Carly - added!

@Noble Savage - thanks!

@Sian - there's an FAQ in the right-hand column that shows exactly how it's calculated, but if you have any more specific questions, do let me know!

[Janmary]

Hi there. Every time the list is produced I ask to be included. Could you let me know if I am being considered, and if so am I anywhere close to making it?

My blog www.janmary.com
my original address www.welcometomyworldjanmary.blogspot.com

Thanks so much :)

[maria]

Great list, there are so many good blogs out there that if I didn't have any discipline I would just spend all my time reading instead of writing. I would love to make it to the list, please consider my blog. Cheers.

[angelsandurchinsblog]

Heck, another day lost reading all the new entries! Here's hoping to make it in one day - this new kid on the bloggy block would love to be considered. Come and say hi! love a&u

[Domestic Goddesque]

Would love to make the top 100 one day:

http://domesticgoddesque.blogspot.com/

Impressive cast list though- I've clearly got a lot to live up to!!

[Catharine]

Congrats to everyone who made the list. I assume I am not being considered - would love to be included next time.

www.withenay.blogspot.com

Thanks!

[Claire Curran]

Well done everyone.

Would also like to see if I can make it in next month.

http://20somethingmum.blogspot.com

[Rebel Mother]

I made it! Fab! Thanks for including me, I shall grab my badge and wear it with honour.

Must have taken you ages to do - well done.

RMxx

[Gail Mowat]

hi there. I am baffled how you measure this, and I dont think I am on any indexes or anything to give me good numbers, but you might like to take a look at my blog bigbelugababy.blogspot.com anyway.
It is nice to have some new addresses to look at!

[Sam]

Boo, hoo, we've slipped off the bottom this month. (Must try harder, must try harder...)
Sam x

[Lulu]

Hello - I'd love to be considered for your blog list. Even if I come bottom!!!

It's very useful and has given me many hours of reading time which I've thoroughly enjoyed.

Great stuff :)

[Paradiselostintranslation]

Hi, thanks for doing this. Don't think I'm anywhere near all these lovely bloggers, but could you add me in anyway? Many thanks.

[Tattie Weasle]

How you do it is beyond me - you are quite amazing! I can't beleive I made it - I am SO chuffed!

[New Mummy]

Thank you again for all the hardwork you do with this. One day I will read all the blogs!! and yay I've gone up 2 places very happy bunny x

[Pippa]

Congrats everyone! Glad to see my favourites are still (mostly!) up there!

[Laura Vogel]

Hi Sally!!

Thanks for all the work in this and helping keep the community going strong. Just for giggles, could you consider www.london-baby.com?

Thanks,

Laura

[twitter.com/yummymummydiary]

i have so far to go with my blog www.yummymummydiary.co.uk. it's such early days though.
hats off to everyone in the top 100, i shall read and learn.

[Andrea]

Well done all...very envious! ;-) Would love to be considered next time.
www.andreadaly.com

[Brit In Bosnia]

I don't have a clue how this works, but am thrilled to be up there with the best of them!

Next month aiming to go up instead of down... ;-)

[Sally]

Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone - keep 'em coming!

[Milla]

boo hoo, have slipped masses. reeling in shock and a tiny bit disturbed.
could not posting all month have something to do with it?
have rectified that now!
thanks for your hard work

[elsie button]

Hi Sally,thanks for doing this list - it must be a real headache!

[Sally]

@Milla - almost certainly, I've had a quick look and your two lowest scores were for interactivity over the previous 30 days, and search rankings over the previous 30 days.

@Elsie - it looks more impressive than it is, honest.

[Karen]

Hi Sally,
Well done everyone who made the top 100. BMB is my new obsession and I'd love to be considered next time. Darn that competitive streak! Karen at The Real Mamma Diaries (www.karenpasqualijones.blogspot.com)