Top 100 Children's Ministry Blogs (New Update for 2011)

• Update: The new rankings for 2015 kids ministry blogs are now online.

This is our latest attempt to recognize the best of the kidsmin bloggers. Browse the list to discover new blogs and see where your favorites rank. Click here to read about the factors or grab a badge for your site. You can also compare the original rankings from last September.
Update: We’re not too proud to make corrections (or add new blogs) to this list over the next 12 hours. So leave a comment if you catch my mistakes.

How These Rankings Work

We started with a list of over 150 children’s ministry blogs. After hours of research, we crunched all the numbers according to our proprietary fuzzy math. Then we added instant coffee with just a hint of cinnamon. Here’s how the factors breakdown.
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G.R.S. = Google Readers Subscribers 
This comes from the the Google Reader API. This year’s number does count multiple RSS feeds, as long as they are linked from your homepage. For most blogs, this contributed around 20% of their base score.
F.B. = Facebook Shares of Homepage
This is a simple count of the number of people who have shared your blog’s main page on Facebook. It’s a rough way to estimate how socially engage your audience is with your site. For most of our list, this contributed around 10% of their base  score.
PA= Page Authority
This is based on Open Site Explorer’s link graph. More quality sites linking to a blog indicate a positive reputation. This metric accounts for around half of our ranking formula.
PI= Pages Indexed
This is the number of pages from a site stored in Google’s index. It can indicate whether a site has a large collection of original content. Most sites we listed could expect around 20% of their base score to come from this figure.
Bonus = Blog Madness Votes
Last March we let the Internet decide which kidmin blogs were the most popular. So I added a bonus from the final 16 blogs in our tournament according to their total votes.  This indicates a loyal readership that will take action based on your recommendations. This adds around 10% to the theoretical base score, consider it extra credit.
Factors Not Considered

• Traffic Estimates: These are notoriously unreliable and often mean nothing. Good traffic growth is closely related to all the factors above.
• Technorati: Their authority rankings fluctuate too wildly to reflect a blog’s long term importance.
• Personal Preference: My attempt was to make this objective.
• Comment Counts: I just didn’t have time to sample the comment numbers from each blogs recent 25 posts.

There you have it! Please leave your comments below to dispute the list or it’s math. If you’re one of these bloggers, you can also write up your thoughts on this list on a post on your own site.

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