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

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.

	Blog Name	G.R.S.	F.B.	MozPA	G.I.	B.M.	Total
	Average Scores	41.8	23.3	24.3	707		30.4
1	Children’s Ministry Online	365	39	42	3530	1	89.14
2	sam luce	203	16	43	2720	1	75.7
3	Orange Leaders	215	9	37	1660	1	66.89
4	Kidologist.com	198	3	33	3370	1	66.72
5	Kidmin360.com	160	19	41	929	1	65.48
6	Life2gether	206	10	40	2370		61.53
7	Kid Inspiration	273	27	36	1800		61.09
8	jonathancliff.com	62	8	46	2550	1	58.38
9	Inside Northpoint Kids	250	25	37	656		56.94
10	Free CM Stuff	83	5	37	1190	1	56.44
11	Dad In The Middle	29	0	39	1770	1	56.38
12	Roger Fields	47	30	40	297	1	55.55
13	Lemon Lime Kids	56	7	37	1440	1	55.51
14	Matt McKee Live	126	4	42	1460		55.09
15	Cullen’s Abc’s	1	344	36	548		54.95
16	Kidmin1124	67	16	36	374	1	52.42
17	What’s In the Bible	62	22	44	898		52
18	JUST PUDGE	46	10	39	3010		51.83
19	Kids Ministry 101	102	44	42	210		51.65
20	GinaMcClain.com	83	12	40	1630		51.15
21	The Inclusive Church	144	247	25	1100		50.33
22	CM Buzz	64	39	39	1630		50.23
23	Justyn Smith	49	17	33	475	1	48.58
24	Growing Kids Ministry	49	65	39	948		48.43
25	Mike Johnson	35	171	36	117		47.24
26	SojournKids	63	20	39	705		46.37
27	Scripture Lady	21	85	39	537		46.3
28	CentriKid Camps Blog	45	118	34	1100		46.28
29	The Thursday Blog	82	13	39	254		45.9
30	Smalltownkidmin Blog	21	6	32	387	1	44.89
31	Legacy Blog	87	50	34	559		44.02
32	Commander Bill’s Blog	13	7	30	907	1	44.01
33	Building Faith	35	46	33	1690		42.83
34	Children’s Ministry 1234	48	20	36	758		42.53
35	Sunday School Revolutionary!	40	1	33	2190		42.46
36	JC is ONLINE	44	3	35	1400		42.39
37	Christianity Cove	17	41	36	1010		42.29
38	Brick by Brick	263	59	20	375		41.64
39	Children’s Ministry Magazine Blog	212	14	25	242		40.58
40	Dan Scott	58	12	32	1320		40.53
41	Cory Center	19	6	36	698		39.71
42	West Coast CM	87	3	20	1130	1	39.43
43	Dick Gruber	12	19	36	478		39.22
44	Children’s Minister BLOG	92	5	31	538		39.04
45	Jim Wideman	147	52	16	199	1	39.01
46	JamieDoyle(dot)com	41	4	34	550		38.63
47	About the Children’s Dept.	9	7	25	831	1	38.51
48	Ryan Frank*	2	2	38	21		38.3
49	Help! I’m a Children’s Pastor	3	7	36	247		37.31
50	iTODD	5	6	35	357		36.73
51	Jenny Funderburke	22	0	34	228		36.17
52	Joe McAlpine	23	24	33	140		36.16
53	Revival Fire For Kids Blog	26	4	31	913		35.74
54	Leadership Whenever	31	0	33	55		35.24
55	Effective Childrens Ministry	37	11	31	358		35.12
56	DOPCANDY	0	1	20	4840		34.94
57	DiscipleBlog.com	19	48	30	404		34.91
58	Rags Studio	18	1	33	167		34.76
59	Kidhelper.com	33	1	29	981		34.27
60	PreteenMinistry.net Blog	21	3	31	529		34.18
61	Creative Kids Pastor	35	2	30	463		33.86
62	brennaphillips.com	4	15	30	915		33.83
63	nickblevins.com	53	0	29	394		33.75
64	Train Up The Child	29	43	28	479		33.56
65	Relevant Children’s Ministry	114	131	17	631		33.09
66	Dustin Nickerson	22	2	31	114		32.92
67	Works of God Displayed	44	25	27	445		32.55
68	A Heart After Children	16	6	31	1		32.37
69	Divorce Ministry 4 Kids	3	18	31	70		32.32
70	CapCity Kidz	13	3	30	311		31.97
71	It’s a kids ministry Revolution baby!	30	1	28	447		31.43
72	Girls Ministry	14	17	29	190		31.37
73	LifeWay VBS Blog	6	199	13	2550		31.2
74	Impulsive Joy	30	12	28	150		31.06
75	Apparently Blogging	32	127	22	0		30.48
76	Jeremy Mavis	1	0	28	679		30.16
77	KidTrek: Sunday Plus	5	7	28	282		29.55
78	CTA, Inc.	11	2	24	1170		28.43
79	Nate Fietzer	0	0	28	85		28.26
80	West Side Kids	7	0	23	1250		27.31
81	Acacia in the Desert	8	0	26	214		27.19
–	Simply Jeff	14	3	25	323		27.08
82	Molded	13	1	24	473		26.37
83	Danielle Bell	9	9	25	53		26.21
84	Evan Doyle	10	0	24	426		25.98
85	Family Regeneration	9	4	23	626		25.73
86	ApostolicCM	5	2	24	398		25.66
87	Ministry Idea Studios	17	0	24	98		25.43
88	The Children’s Hour	112	9	16	484		25.41
89	Infuzed	4	12	23	491		25.38
90	Kidmin and Culture	9	2	21	1170		25.3
–	Little People Big Word	4	17	23	368		25.25
91	Jason Martin	4	5	24	145		24.96
92	Kids Pastor Kathy	5	0	24	67		24.54
93	Commotion from the Ocean of Life	28	2	20	791		24.4
94	Diving for Pearls	21	127	15	348		23.82
95	Maximize Children’s Ministry	0	26	22	83		23.56
96	Church4EveryChild	25	25	17	1150		23.46
97	GJ Farmer’s Blog	6	2	22	41		22.63
98	Pro 226	0	32	19	292		21.5
99	The Fake Kidmin	4	0	20	41		20.4
100	Children’s Ministry Blog	57	15	15	211		20.2

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.

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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