RatingBurner Ranks Blogs According To RSS Numbers

Well, mainly. It also takes some other factors into consideration, like Google’s PageRank, and the presence of ads and sponsors (although I’m not sure what’s that got to do with anything), but the main criterion for ranking is the number of RSS subscribers (taken from FeedBurner) and recent changes in that number.

RatingBurner, a relatively unknown new site discovered by Louis Gray, currently has the problem (besides the awful design of the site) of being too selective: many big blogs with huge RSS numbers aren’t included. But, that’s why there’s an option to add a new blog feed, so whoever thinks he/she’s being neglected can add their blog, as long as they’re using FeedBurner to manage their feed.

The idea to rank sites according to FeedBurner is not, in fact, a new one; I once did it by hand which caused quite a positive feedback in the blogosphere. However, since then even I changed my mind about the usefulness of such ranking system, simply because RSS stats are quite volatile and not always a good indication of a website’s popularity. But, it’s a ranking system with positive sides and flaws like any other, and I guess it can’t hurt to have another one. If nothing else, RatingBurner is a good way to find some fresh feeds for your reader.

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