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Sunday, 4 July 2010

Top 20 Health Blogs Preview...

So, Wikio UK are adding a Health Blogs section to their site, and have asked me to do a wee preview of it before it goes live on Monday. They have lots of Top Blogs on various topics already, such as Fashion, Sport, Culture etc etc, and are adding a Health section to this. All the blogs they include are from the UK or Ireland, and the ratings are updated monthly. The rankings are 'based on backlinks: so the position of a blog depends on the number and weight of incoming links from other blogs. Only links found in the RSS feed are included and blogrolls are not taken into account. The weight of any given link increases according to how recently it was published' (technical quote that I have stolen from the nice people at Wikio). So anyway, their current, and first, Top 20 Health blogs are listed below. It is nice to see the Madosphere so well represented, with lots of Mental Nurse TWIM regulars included, and of course the wonderful Mental Nurse itself topping the list! Hopefully the Health section will grow in the way that others seem to have, and it will become a good place for finding new blogs to read - if you wish to submit your own blog then you can do so here.

1.     Mental Nurse
2.     Lake Cocytus
3.     Confessions of a Serial Insomniac
4.     Random Acts Of Reality
5.     Bah! to cancer
6.     Pole to Polar: The secret life of a manic depressive
7.     Writing in the margins of my mind
8.     Frontier Psychiatrist
9.     Purple Noise
10.   Bippidee
11.   Aethelread the Unread
12.   Madsadgirl
13.   Bipolar Mo
14.   ...My little corner of the net to talk about...
15.   A Tangle of Weeds
16.   Guardian Society: Sarah Boseley's global health blog
17.   Life in the NHS
18.   Militant Medical Nurse
19.   Fergus's Medical Files
20.   Weight Loss Blog
 
Ranking by Wikio
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9 comments:

  1. Pandora4 July 2010 at 12:26

    Wow! Most of them are offerings from the madosphere...that rules!

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  2. Bippidee4 July 2010 at 14:06

    Yeah, I was impressed! Hopefully we will be able to keep it that way. x

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  3. madsadgirl4 July 2010 at 14:42

    I'm absolutely gobsmacked to find myself on the list. Thanks for the heads up on this new listing.

    MSG

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  4. Aliquant5 July 2010 at 02:56

    *does a copy-paste on everything madsadgirl said*
    Gobsmackedness and gratitude aplenty!

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  5. Anonymous5 July 2010 at 20:30

    Gobsmacked myself! I hope we can all keep the madosphere blogs at the top as well! Hope you're doing OK Bip xx

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  6. Susie5 July 2010 at 21:01

    suprised Marine Snow/Lola isn't there.

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  7. Pandora5 July 2010 at 21:36

    Yeah, I thought Lola's omission was surprising and disappointing. But then I wondered if it makes any difference whether or not someone has specifically submitted a blog to Wikio - Lola may not have done? I've been on it for a couple of months which probably helps account for my shock ranking.

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  8. Bippidee5 July 2010 at 21:38

    I don't know where they got their starting blogs from/how they chose them (there are currently 35 here http://www.wikio.co.uk/blogs/top/health), but then within them, the ratings are as described above.

    And I was as suprised as the rest of you to be included!

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  9. Bippidee5 July 2010 at 21:39

    Oh, and I have never been on Wikio at all Pandora, so that can't account for it. In fact I had never heard of it before I got this email from them....

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