Wayne Liew - Blogging & Money Making

Wayne Liew has written an article about my new Blog Top List on his blog today and he asks several questions about the list.

Of course, I am going to answer all of them. He guesses, the list might be a clone of Marks Make-Money-Online list over at 45n5.com. Sure, my list is not the first on this planet and it won´t be the last one. But they are two different lists. One is listing blogs about making money online and the other one lists blogs about blogging.

You think, both is the same? Wayne does think so. I want to clarify that, as it has been also misunderstood by some bloggers, who contacted me for being on the list. I wrote, I´ll take only blogs on the list, which are about blogging.

About Blogging? About Making Money?
Blogging about blogging CAN include blogging about making money online. Many blogs out there do not only show how to build up a blog and a readership to it, how to improve the blogs theme and so on, they also provide information about how to make money with that blog. (These blogs would qualify for my list)

Also, there are many bloggers - and I read some of them regularly - who write about how to make money on the Internet. How to write an E-Book, how to build up an E-Mail list or about making more money from affiliate programs. These can be great blogs - but are they about blogging? Does making money online neccessarily include having a blog? No. (These blogs would not qualify for my list)
Shouldn´t these blogs better be listed on Marks List? Of course, it´s about making money online and these blogs are about that topic. But they are not about blogging.

Wayne, could I make this more transparent for you?

Metrics & Source of Data
Wayne also wondered, why I chose to take the bloggers name for the links instead of their blogs title. And he is right, I wanted to give some credit to the blogger behind it.

The list does use several different metrics to determine the individual ranking of each blog. 3 of them are being shown on the list, but not all of them. I chose to publish the number of incoming links and the number of blogs these links come from, which I fetch from Technorati via their API. The RSS subscriber count is being taken from - guess what - FeedBurner, again using the API to get the data.

These metrics together with the other invisble data is being weighted by specific percentages, so Wayne is right on this again. That´s why Wayne is listed below Patric Herber (at this moment) though according to the shown numbers, he should be in front of him.

So Wayne, I hope I could answer all your questions about the Top-List.

Note:
Did you notice? This seems to be kind of a Cross Blog Conversation.

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