Nielsen BuzzMetrics Ranks Top 100 Posts of 2006

Posted on January 4, 2007

In a previous post we posted Nielsen BuzzMetrics list of the Top Ten most linked to posts of 2006. Now BuzzMetrics CEO Jonathan Carson has followed up on the top ten list with a post about the Top 100 Posts of 2006. The PDF file containing the complete 100 posts is sadly no longer available.

The top 100 posts of 2006 were made by only 18 different blogs. Carson says many of the posts were by Alisters, top blogs and Google's Official Blog.

Several uber-A Listers have multiple posts in the Top 100, if not in the Top 10. Michelle Malkin does have the #6 post ("Danish cartoonists threatened by Muslim extremists"), plus 17 more. Engadget has ten in the Top 100, including a hilarious comment on a Teddy Bear USB drive with a removeable head at #22; Think Progress also has ten, including a clip of Bill Clinton talking about the war on terror from Fox News, at #11; Boing Boing lists eight times, including a critique of the digital rights protection measures on the new Coldplay CD, at #21.
As in life, all things Google resonated in the blogosphere - the Google Blog registered 11 top 100 posts, including a post on the company's acquisition of Writely at #10, and a post about Google in China at #17.
Some regularly-cited top bloggers did not make the top post list, including Gizmodo, Huffington Post, Techcrunch, and Gawker. Daily Kos had just one post on the list (#85, a transcript of Stephen Colbert's White House correspondents dinner speech).

It looks like Daily Kos actually has a second post on the list -- Kos also has a post in 87th position. By just glancing at the list you can see that it is dominated by blogs like Crooks and Liars, Michelle Malkin, Engadget, Sifry.com, Think Progress, EU Referendum, Boing Boing and Google's Official Blog. There were a few exceptions like Kung Fu Monkey's Wait, Aren't You Scared? and Creating Passionate User's How to Be an Expert.

It is very interesting to see this list of the most linked to posts -- thanks to Jonathan Carson and BuzzMetrics for releasing it into the wild. If only the other blog search engines would do the same.