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Problogger Is No Longer The #1 Blogging Blog, It Yields To John Chow

It is widely thought that Problogger is the most widely viewed blogging blog.  While that used to be true, not so anymore.  John Chow has overtaken him as the leader, at least according to Alexa.

Problogger = Blue         John Chow = Red (an evil color if there ever was one)

Smoothing the Alexa rankings graph out all the way, you can see that although John has been flirting with Problogger in the rankings, it is only recently that John has had a recent surge in traffic and moved into first place.  Problogger has an advantage over John by being first to the scene.  Problogger got his site started in the beginning of 2005, while John started in the beginning of 2006.  It seems that John has been working hard to make up his year disadvantage and surge into the lead in terms of reach. 

Although this surge could be short term, it could also be a sign of John’s superior SEO techniques.   John Chow has been unabashedly aggressive in pursuing backlinks to his site.  He daily gets 10 blogs to review his in exchange for a backlink.   He has so many sites linking to him in fact that he is a week backlogged in posted his link exchanges.

In truth, the actual fact as to who is the most viewed blogging blogger is completely insignificant.  I suspect that if you asked Problogger or John Chow they would just not care.   Still, it does show what aggressive seo tactics can do for you.  Passive SEO through quality content creation is a very effective technique.  However quality content combined with a relentless drive to increase backlinks from all comers has proven to be effective for John.  You might want to pursue similar strategies for your own site.

Just for fun, tossing up 2 of the other “A List” bloggers, Steve Pavlina ( Teal ) and Shoe Money (Yellow)

Although neither Shoe Money nor Steve Pavlina are blogging blogs per-se, they both deserve kudos in different ways.  The first is for Shoe, who is clearly pulling out of a recent slump in traffic and is going gangbusters again.

Secondly, Kudos to Steve Pavlina, who by every measure is behind some of the other sites in terms of traffic and rankings, but is still kicking butt and taking names in terms of income. (40K/month)