Top 100 UK Parent Blogs and Bloggers - October 2009

Welcome to the October Tots100 index of the UK's top 100 parent blogs and bloggers! The British Mummy (and Daddy) blogging scene is getting exciting - we've got a brand new number one blog this month and no fewer than 17 new entries to the index - so lots of new reading for everyone!

I spent quite a lot of time putting together the blog index this month - with so many new entries, there was quite a bit of work. To avoid that happening next month, here's my stern moment: while I love people suggesting new blogs for us to include, please don't nominate your blog each month - if you've nominated it once, I promise it's in there. If you nominate it again, it ends up being scored twice, and it messes up my calculations. This tends to make me cranky.

A second issue that came up this month: we now have a couple of bloggers who write more than one blog. What we've found is that these blogs are sometimes linking to each other repeatedly - and since the index scores partly based on links, it's elevating the scores of both blogs. From next month, I am going to impose a limit - so that if Blog A and Blog B are written by the same person, you can only score for ONE link between those two blogs each month. I think this will make the index fairer for those bloggers who only write one blog. But feedback, as ever, is welcome.

Apart from that, usual rules apply. Read the FAQ for details of how these figures are created, and contact me here or via Twitter if you want to know more.

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	A Modern Mother	834	+3
2	Alpha Mummy	826	-1
3	Jo Beaufoix	772	+4
4	The Potty Diaries	764	+2
5	English Mum	761	+10
6	All That Comes With It	758	+6
7	Crystal Jigsaw	754	+3
8	Molly Chicken	752	-7
9	Noble Savage	734	+2
11	Single Parent Dad	730	-2
12	Babyccino Blog	719	+2
13	Bringing Up Charlie	712	-5
14	Bambino Goodies	709	+2
15	Who's the Mummy?	692	+4
16	Family Affairs and Other Matters	679	+4
17	Violet Posy	663	+4
18	Wife in the North	659	-5
19	You've Got Your Hands Full	656	+17
20	Notes Inside my Head	649	-2
21	Baby Baby	635	+35
22	Maternal Tales	630	+8
23	Brits in Bosnia	628	+10
24	Dulwich Divorcee	626	+4
25	Little Mummy	624	+10
26	Millennium Housewife	611	-3
27	More Than Just a Mother	607	-3
28	Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman	603	-11
29	WAHM-BAM	590	-3
30	Yummy Mammie	586	NEW!
31	Not Supermum	581	-2
32	New Mummy	546	+13
33	Nixd Minx	544	-11
34	Being a Mummy	539	+19
35	Mummy Do That	531	+7
36	Flower Fairies and Fairy Cakes	525	+1
37	Are We Nearly There Yet, Mummy?	522	+4
38	Working Mum on Verge	521	-6
39	Crunchie Mummy	519	=
40	Dulwich Mum	501	+3
41	Nappy Valley Girl	496	-16
42	Country Lite	493	-4
43	The Bedside Crow	488	-16
44	Mother at Large	487	+15
45	Clareybabble	481	+12
46	Family Friendly Working	477	-15
47	The Bush Babies	476	+10
48	Hot Cross Mum	464	+52
49	Thames Valley Mums	462	=
50	Home Office Mum	458	-4
51	Parentdish	455	+9
52	Breastfeeding Mums Blog	454	+2
53	Live Otherwise	434	+10
54	Motherhood: the final frontier	430	-14
55	Nunhead Ramblings	422	-21
56	Perfectly Happy Mum	421	+5
57	Not Wrong, Just Different	418	-9
58	Frog Blog	412	-3
59	Insomniac Mummy	410	NEW!
60	Grits Day	408	NEW!
61	Rebel Mother	407	-11
62	OMG I'm Pregnant	395	-15
63	Wife of Bold	394	+22!
64	Jan Mary	388	NEW!
65	A Midwife's Muse	388	-14
66	Cotton Pickin' Days	387	-14
67	Family Relationships	386	+5
68	Mrs Trefusis Takes a Taxi	375	-4
69	Muddling Along Mum	374	NEW!
70	Don't Panic. RTFM.	369	+6
71	A Confused Take That Fan	360	-6
72	Diary of a Surprise Mum	352	+3
73	Sleep is for the Weak	348	NEW!
74	A Mother's Ramblings	344	NEW!
75	More to Life Than Laundry	343	-8
76	Single and Surviving	343	NEW!
77	3 Kids No Job	342	-17
78	I Promise That I Will Do My Best	340	-4
79	The Brinkster	339	-13
80	And One More Means Four	336	+2
81	Littlesheep Learning	358	-8
82	Some Mothers do 'ave em	330	-10
83	Really Rachel	321	+5
84	Have a Lovely Time	309	-7
85	Musings of a Juggling Mother	308	-2
86	Babyrambles	307	NEW!
87	Littlesheep Learning	306	-6
88	Self-Employed Mum	305	NEW!
89	Rosie Scribble	304	-9
90	Forty Not Out	300	-12
91	Living With Kids	299	NEW!
92	It's a Small World	298	+7
93	Caution: Woman at Work	297	NEW!
94	A Place of my Own	273	-10
95	Mom or Mum Wars	270	-27
96	Metropolitan Mum	268	NEW!
97	Kitschy Koo	265	=
98	The Baby Juggler	259	-9
99	The Smell of Little Pong	255	-7
100	Most/Least	251	-13

JUST MISSED OUT THIS MONTH: Poke in the Eye, Keir Royale, Family of Five and Mothers on the Verge were all within 10 points of the top 100. Well done!

Comments

[Brit In Bosnia]

Thanks and, as ever, I don't know how you find the time to do this (or have a clue how it all works) but thanks for doing it anyway!

[Liz (LivingwithKids)]

Made it! Hooray! As ever amazed at how many fantastic blogs there are out there and by all your hard work Sally. x

[Tasha]

Thanks for all your hard work, as always, Sally. Congratulations to Susanna on reaching Number One! There seem to be two entries for The Potty Diaries.

[Linda]

Hi Sally, thank you for including Got Your Hands Full and Have a Lovely Time.
I promise I won't ask you to include either ever again.
On your point about one blog linking to another - I think it is very fair. I am sure that this has affected both these scores.
As you can imagine, I am very pleased to see YGYHF move up into the top 20. I don't think in its previous 'form' it would ever have done very well in this list as it was a pretty static "information source" - the conversations sparked by recent posts there have been exhilarating at times though I am aware this may be too strong a word and one that may sound a bit ridiculous.
Thank you again and all the very best to you and Flea.

[Josie @Sleep is for the Weak]

Hurray! I'm on there!

Lovely news to wake up to. Big congratulations to Susanna for making the number 1 spot! And thanks to Sally for staying up VERY late last night to do this (you must have done, right?!)

Insomniac Mummy did especially well too didn't she? Straight in at number 59 and Hot Cross Mum up 52 places!!! Both extremely well deserved - two of my favourite blogs.
xx

[TheMadHouse]

Hi Sally thanks for doing this as always, I am only a fledgling in blog years, but I would appreicate if you could give me my stats. Thank you and well done all that made it

[notSupermum]

Many thanks once again for all your hard work Sally, perhaps you can get some sleep now!

Btw, I took a photo of Flea at Sunday and would like to include it with the others when I update my blog today. Would that be OK, only I didn't get the chance to ask you at the time - seconds later I saw you and Flea chasing each other down the museum!

[Hot Cross Mum]

I assume you are now asleep! Amazing work on your behalf - it's really appreciated. Thrilled with my leap - I'm chuffed. Maybe some more shoes are in order?! Great to see some of my favourites on there as new entries too.

[Maternal Tales]

Well done Sally. Such a lot of work and also such an important resource for other parents bloggers. Brilliant.

[Insomniac Mummy]

Oh my goodness! I'm astounded that I made it so far up the table!

Thanks for all the hard work Sally and congratulations to Susanna for hitting the top spot.

Well done everyone. Off to have a read of a few more now.

:)

[Yummy Mammy]

Nice one, in at number 30! I'm quite proud :-)

[Sally]

Thanks everyone, please feel free to point out errors where they've crept in. As you may know, the HTML table is done manually and quite late at night, so....

@notsupermum - could you email it to me first? And, yes, we were racing. I lost, obviously ;-)

[Whistlejacket]

Thank you very much for including me! Really happy to chart for the first time! Check out Baby Baby and Hot Cross Mum leaping up the charts. And congrats to fellow new entrants Insomniac Mummy and Sleep is for the Weak. Congratulations also to A Modern Mother on the top spot - these are all blogs I read regularly. Well done again on compiling it all.

[Potty Mummy]

Thanks as ever Sally - hope you've managed to catch up your sleep... PM X

[Metropolitan Mum]

I can only imagine how much work it must be to pull that together. Thanks for doing it!!

PS: Quite chuffed that I made it. And how funny that Most/Least is #100.

[Joanne Mallon]

Thanks so much for doing this Sally, it's a great resource. Pleased to see ParentDish moving up a chunk - I can smell that top 50 now.

[Noble Savage]

Thanks for all your hard work, Sally, as usual. This is such a great resource. Off to read some new blogs!

[Victoria]

I've no idea how you do it, but thanks very much. I'm very pleased to have moved up from 99, considering I'm kind of a travel blog, with children attached!

[notSupermum]

Sally, I can't find an email address for you, but guess what? The lovely photo I took of Flea in her ace t-shirt, and a couple more of various bloggers have disappeared from my camera. Not sure what's happened, but I do remember trying to delete some old pics when the memory was full.....sorry 'bout that.

[The Real Mamma Diaries]

Wow, an amazing top 100. Glad to see Living with kids in there - I save money as well as read with that blog. I don't know how I will ever make the top 100 but at least I've got a new ambition. Fantastic work Sally, I'll keep thinking maybe one day...

[Michelle]

Hi Sally, do I need to add mine again so it can be considered for the next?

www.babysigningstore.co.uk/blog

I wasn't sure how it works.

Thanks,
Michelle

[Janmary]

Yeah - I made it! Thanks so much :)

[Liz@VioletPosy]

Hurray!! Well done Susanna :)

Thanks for all your hard work Sally x

[Kat]

Submitting mine for consideration (although I don't know if I qualify since I am an American living in the UK). Nice work on the ranking though!

http://3bedroombungalow.blogspot.com

[Karen @ If I Could Escape]

Thanks Sally! Lovely to be included and glad to see I've not dropped off the list!

[Leanne]

Glad to see Jan Mary on there:) I'd like to submit mine for consideration;

http://seethewoodsandthetrees.blogspot.com

Thanks.

[Muddling Along Mummy]

Thanks so much for including me Sally and all your hard work (afraid my link doesn't work though - or maybe I'm doing something wrong...)

Off to have a nice read of some new blogs! Fantastic!

[Crystal Jigsaw]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm very, very honoured to be included in your list. It's a lot of hard work for you and you've made 100 bloggers extremely happy, including me. THANK YOU.

CJ xx

[Claire Curran]

Hey Sally, hoping to be included next month fingers crossed-how far was I off this month?
http://www.20somethingmum.blogspot.com

[elizabethm]

Submitting mine at www.welshhillsagain.blogspot.com as I see my friend at Single and Surviving on the list so it looks like small children are not a must. My kids are adult now but I have one grandchild and another on the way and also blog about haivng downsized from a frantic London life to rural bliss. Hope you can include me!
it is great to see so many of my favourites on your list and what a task to compile. thanks so much for all your time and effort.

[grit]

wow. thank you for all your hard work. i'm not sure how it's done, but it's fun to use the list as a start point to explore different blogs that are new to me. thanks again.

[Pippa]

Just wanted to add my thanks (again) for you putting the work in to do this and to say how surprised I was when Hot Cross Mum stopped by to tell me I was on the list!

I think there is a space at the end of my URL, as it doesn't click through.

:)

Pippa

[Susie Mesure]

my question is where is the link to the FAQ?!

i guess i could submit mine while i'm at it, although i doubt it fulfils the criteria....

http://babieswhobrunch.blogspot.com

[Sally]

See the link on the right under "About the Index" that says "FAQ: the index"? That's it. Just above the red and white Great Toy Guide badge!

[simone]

Didn't make it, but I'm not surprised.

As I'm spending more and more time figuring out SEO (with poor results), I keep wondering why quality should come after number crunching.

http://fromrattopositiveparent.blogspot.com/

[Sally]

Simone - I've checked and you haven't commented on the blog before so your blog wasn't indexed.

If you want a blog to be included in the index you must leave a comment with your blog name and URL on the most recent index (like this one). If you do this, we will include your blog in the next index.

Thanks

Sally

[Solveig]

Just seen my blog is there! I'm right near the bottom but I'm still very pleased! Hurray!

[Paradiselostintranslation]

Hi Sally, can you include me next time? I can't remember if I aske din Sept or not. I know I won't make the list but would like to try.

[Ollie]

Great Work Sally.

[Bare Naked Mummy]

Hi wonder where the FAQ are hiding so I can see whether I can enter mine or not?

Thanks

BNM

[Sally]

BNM - look at the right hand column - just above the red & white Great Toy Guide link is an "About the Index" section - click on the FAQ: the index link and all will be explained!

Sally

[New Mummy]

Thank you for all the hard work you put into this! Woop made the top into the 30's

[Hairy Farmer Family]

I've a horrible feeling I might have emailed before... or maybe I'm dreaming it! But I blog at http://hairyfarmerfamily.wordpress.com/ and would love a go at inclusion! Fabulous resource, well done you!

[Anna Guest]

http://little-bit-of-everything-reviews.blogspot.com/

Please add me .. if I am good enough :)

[Sophie Chamings]

I LOVE reading Getting Ink and clicked through to 'Who's the Mummy' today to find something just as interesting! Anyway, I thought I'd pop my blog in to see if it gets mentioned next month - it talks about me and my business and shows photogrpahs, gives natural skincare recipe blends and make-up tips!

[Dawn/LittleGreenFingers]

Thanks again for putting together this list - it's a great place for me to find new blogs to read.

Also, I have realised looking at your FAQs that I should probably submit my own blog under its Typepad address as well as this is how it appears on some indexes - www.littlegreenfingers.typepad.com. Still don't imagine I'll be in the top 1000 never mind top 100...

[Emma - Me , The Man & The Baby]

Oooo Just missed out! Wonder if I'll make it next time!! Hehe.. :)

[Sylvie Foxworthy]

I've just written my very first blog so not sure if I qualify.
This is it anyway! xx

http://fizzylady.blogspot.com/

[Craig McGill]

Interesting list - where are all the dads? (and yes, consider below a request to be added)

[Zoe]

Hello,
I've previously submitted my blog but I have just moved it to a new address and so could you please take this in to account when doing the maths! Many thanks.
My new address:
http://www.playingbythebook.net/
My old address:
http://www.kuvik.net/ztoft/playingbythebook/

Thanks for all your hard work on this.
Zoe