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Popular Parent Bloggers (Original List)

For the updated version of this list, see Popular Parent and Mom Bloggers.

Inspired by Todd And’s Power 150, a listing of the top English language marketing blogs, I compiled my own set of ranking factors to create a list of Popular Parent Bloggers. Did you make the list? Here they are, ranked in order of popularity:

  1. 5 Minutes for Mom
  2. Fussy
  3. *Rocks in My Dryer
  4. *Parent Hacks
  5. Lil Duck Duck
  6. Troll Baby
  7. *Embracing Momminess
  8. HerBadMother
  9. *Scribbit
  10. Write from Karen
  11. Sprittibee
  12. Trying to Catch up
  13. *An Island Life
  14. Sweetney
  15. amalah . com
  1. Three Kid Circus
  2. Sparks and Butterflies
  3. Here comes a storm…
  4. Principled Discovery
  5. The Bean Blog
  6. Plain Jane Mom
  7. Everyday Mommy
  8. BackpackerMom
  9. Changed by His Love
  10. Sunshine Scribe
  11. Metro Mama
  12. Mommy off the Record
  13. A Doggy’s Life
  14. Flagrant Disregard
  15. White Trash Mom

* indicates blogs that I have read quite a bit and/or subscribe to.

Download the OPML file to subscribe to all these blogs in a feed reader like Bloglines or Google Reader. (While you’re at it, subscribe to MamaBlogga for a chance to win!)

Ranking factors
The Popular Parent Bloggers ranking is based on:

  • Technorati ranking
  • Number of blogs linking to your blog
  • Number of MyBlogLog community members
  • Number of Bloglines subscribers
  • Google PageRank (just for the heck of it)
  • The number of comments received in a week (weighted most heavily; I picked the last week in March 2007 to make it all equal).

Made the list?
Congratulations!

Feel free to take one of the badges below and add it to a post or sidebar. Please link back to MamaBlogga if you take a badge, and please save the picture to your blog.

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Want to be included on the list?
Think your blog should be here? E-mail me at jordan (at) mamablogga.com (be sure to include your blog’s URI!).

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Be a Winner: Enter the MamaBlogga RSS Contest

Want to feel like a winner? What better way to feel like a winner than to actually win something? Subscribe to MamaBlogga today for a chance to win a one-year subscription to Parenting magazine. Each issue of Parenting comes with an issue of Sesame Street magazine for your children.

Already receive Parenting? We’ll gladly substitute a one-year subscription to another parenting or children’s magazine subscription or extend your current subscription by one year.

How to Win
It’s really easy: just subscribe to the MamaBlogga feed and receive updates via RSS. (If you don’t already have an RSS reader, I’d recommend Google Reader, a good way to get started, especially if you already have a Google or GMail account.)

Watch for a special message at the end of a post during the third week of April, visible only to our RSS subscribers. Write me an e-mail with the special message within 48 hours and you’ll be entered to win! The winner will be drawn at random from the e-mails I receive.

How to Win BIG
If we get more than 100 new subscribers, we’ll add a parenting book of your choice to your prize! So, once you’ve subscribed, get your friends to subscribe as well to increase your chances of winning big!

About Parenting
I like Parenting magazine. It’s targeted toward mothers of children aged from conception to 12 years old. In addition to useful articles on home organization, discipline, sleep and parenting skills and strategies, it also features recipes, toy reviews, tips, useful advice and (possibly my favorite part) a section on taking time for and caring for yourself. Even before Hayden was born, I was excited to find a new issue of Parenting in my mailbox. With Sesame Street magazine included, you might be able to keep your kids busy while you read!

Miscellany:

  • Odds of winning depend on number of entries received.
  • I reserve the right to change anything in this contest as necessary.
  • Number of subscribers to be determined by FeedBurner.
  • If “big” prize is won, maximum value of parenting book to be determined by Jordan. But I’ll be reasonable.