Athlete Nightly

Since my blog is new I wanted to do some quality research and see what makes a successful blogger. Below is my list of the Top 25 sports bloggers. Through my research, I have read that most people agree that www.compete.com is the most accurate website when estimating visitors. Here is how they define a unique visitor: "they only count a person once no matter how many times they visit a site in a given month." I used Alexa.com's numbers as a secondary option. I also used Alexa for the sites that use blogger.com since you can't track blogger sites on Compete.

And for God Sakes, Kissing Suzy Kolber, 100% injury rate, and Blue Gray Sky get your own domain name. It costs $10 and takes about 5 minutes to do the appropriate switchover.

Now before you read the numbers, here is how I decided on this list. First, I can't track True Hoop or DC Sports Bog, so I estimated how much traffic they probably have. True Hoop may seem high but ESPN is probably driving a lot of extra traffic. Second, I only had the Alexa ranking on the blogger sites so I estimated where they should go. Third, I only included true Blog sites. I did not include Athlete blogs or blog networks (its easy to get high traffic when you have a 50 writers.)



Honorable Mention (Just missed cracking the top 25): Sports Frog, Heisman Pundit, Basball Crank, College Football Resource

Athlete Nightly's Favorite Blog: The Big Lead

Athlete Nightly's Most hated blog on the list: Bad Jocks

Now I am sure I missed a few blogs so please send me your blog to buzz[a]athletenightly.com. I plan on doing an update to the list in a month. At this point your blog must have a compete.com score of 7,000 or more to crack the top 25.