For the past five days the Google Backward Links counts for our testing sample of 30 classical music blogs have remained constant which indicates that Google's Backward Links update for September 2008 has now propagated throughout all Google servers and has finally stabilized. Why this updating required three weeks for Google to complete rather than the typical few days to one week is a mystery to us. But there has been no buzz whatsoever in the SEO techie community to indicate a fundamental change in Google's procedure, nor of anything untoward about this latest Google update. We therefore now feel confident in posting our S&F Top 50 rankings for the 3rd quarter 2008.
Accordingly, below is Sounds & Fury’s quarterly ranked list of the Top 50 Classical Music Blogs for the quarter ending 30 Sept 2008. Eligibility for consideration for listing and a detailed explanation of the methodology used in compiling the ranked list as well as a key to reading the list’s entries can be found here. Of our list of 139 classical music blogs, 100 were eligible for consideration in this quarter's rankings. An alphabetical listing of all the classical music blogs considered eligible for inclusion in the S&F Top 50 for this quarter can be found here. If you know of any classical music blog(s) that meets the S&F Top 50 eligibility requirements but is not listed there, please leave the name and link of that blog(s) (the FULL link, please, so that it's clickable) in the comments section of that alphabetical listing. Do NOT leave the name and link in the comments section of this post as it will be missed when the time comes for collecting and evaluating such names and links. The comments section of this post is for your general comments, corrections, questions, and suggestions, and will remain open for the current quarter only.
We trust you’ll find the S&F Top 50 an informative and useful resource.
Below is Sounds & Fury’s quarterly ranked list of the Top 50 classical music blogs for the quarter ending June 2008. Eligibility for consideration for listing and a detailed explanation of the methodology used in compiling the ranked list as well as a key to reading the list’s entries can be found here. Of our list of 143 classical music blogs, 109 were eligible for consideration in this quarter's rankings. An alphabetical listing of all the classical music blogs considered eligible for inclusion in the S&F Top 50 for this quarter can be found here. If you know of any classical music blog(s) that meets the S&F Top 50 eligibility requirements but is not listed there, please leave the name and link of that blog(s) (the FULL link, please, so that it's clickable) in the comments section of that alphabetical listing. Do NOT leave the name and link in the comments section of this post as it will be missed when the time comes for collecting and evaluating such names and links. The comments section of this post is for your general comments, corrections, questions, and suggestions, and will remain open for the current quarter only.
The Google Backward Links counts for this quarter are the result of Google's periodic reindexing of its entire database of Web pages wherein all dead pages are tossed, new PageRank assignments are calculated for all pages in the new index, and new Backward Links (incoming links) counts are compiled for all pages based on the newly assigned PageRanks (as explained in the S&F Top 50 methodology linked above, for an outgoing link on a source page to be included in the Backward Links count of the target page, Google requires that the PageRank of the source page be above a certain PageRank threshold). Because of Google's database-wide reindexing, the raw Backward Links numbers for this quarter CANNOT be compared with the raw Backward Links numbers for last quarter as last quarter's numbers are based on a Google index that, in cyber-world terms, is now ancient history. Accordingly, changes in ranking from last quarter (▲=Up; ▼=Down; ▮=No change; and ■=Not included in last quarter's rankings) are by rank rather than raw Backward Links count.
We trust you’ll find the S&F Top 50 an informative and useful resource.
Below is Sounds & Fury’s quarterly ranked list of the Top 50 classical music blogs for the quarter ending 31 March. Eligibility for consideration for listing and a detailed explanation of the methodology used in compiling the ranked list as well as a key to reading the list’s entries can be found here. An alphabetical listing of all the classical music blogs considered eligible for inclusion in the S&F Top 50 for this quarter can be found here. If you know of any classical music blog(s) not listed there but that should be, please leave the name and link of that blog(s) in the comments section of that alphabetical listing, NOT the comments section of this post. The comments section of this post will remain open for the current quarter for your comments, corrections, questions, and suggestions. We trust you’ll find the S&F Top 50 an informative and useful resource.
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