Better late then never above are the top 25 Blogs for July.  We have brought on yet another site to help us rank websites and that is Quantcast.  Quantcast has actually gone out and done deals with major websites like Wordpress to provide the most accurate data possible.  If you haven’t quantified your site, go check it out.  We decided to use a mix of Quantcast and Google Ad Planner because it seems that Quantcast is way off on a few sites that they don’t have accurate data for.  They do a great job with subdomains so that allowed us to eliminate Alexa.

You can view why we pick these sites and not others at the bottom of April’s Top 25 Sports Blogs.

*Kissing Suzy Kolber is hosted at kissmesuzy.blogspot.com and Kissingsuzykolber.net. Most of their traffic goes to the blogspot address so we used that address for stats. The same is true for Awful Announcing. Mgoblog is only at Mgoblog.blogspot.com

Only one site new to the list and that is Hardball Times. We are not sure why they have been left off the list but they have deserved to be on it since we started this site. The biggest thing that stood out to us versus lasts months Top 25 Sports Blog Rankings is that nearly all the Alexa numbers had drastic improvements. We are not sure if this means that Alexa gave more weight to sports sites or that more sports fans have added the Alexa Toolbar.

For those of you who have never seen this rankings before we want to revisit how we compile the rankings. First, through our research we have found that Compete seems to be the most accurate at reporting site traffic when comparing other websites. Alexa is used as a secondary option for sites that have Compete numbers that are close together.

You won’t see sites like Aol Fanhouse or Bugs and Cranks because they are blog networks. You also won’t see sites like Yahoo blogs, True Hoop, and the Sporting Blog because they are major media networks.

*Kissing Suzy Kolber is hosted at kissmesuzy.blogspot.com and Kissingsuzykolber.net. Most of their traffic goes to the blogspot address so we used that address for stats. The same is true for Awful Announcing.

As you will notice in January we had a spot for Absolute Unique Visitors but this month we don’t.  Thank you to the people that sent their analytics screen shot but at this point we just don’t have time to send out emails and try to collect the data on a monthly basis. We will try to do it for the year end though.

Now on to the numbers.  The biggest number that jumps out to us is With Leather’s rise from 98987 uniques to 262323 this month.  That is quite a jump though we aren’t ready to crown them the top spot because Deadspin over all still gets more unique monthly visitors.

As always please inform us if you think you should be on the list.  For the Bloggers on the list grab this badge, link to the post, and put it up on your site to show your readers where you stand:

*Kissing Suzy Kolber is hosted at kissmesuzy.blogspot.com and Kissingsuzykolber.net. Most of their traffic goes to the blogspot address so we used that address for stats. The same is true for Awful Announcing.

We now have a new column and this column tracks Absolute Unique Visitors.  This is the number of new people that come to a given website in that month.  The black underlined numbers are real actual numbers and we give those numbers more weight.  That is why The Big Lead is ranked second instead of some of the other higher projected blogs.  The regular numbers are estimates we calculated based off of the Compete.com number and the actual unique numbers we do have.  For those of you that didn’t provide us with actual numbers hopefully you can provide those in the future.

After looking at the rankings a few things stick out to us.  The first is the Need 4 Sheed’s huge Absolute Unique Number.  They are bringing in a ton of traffic and Compete.com is way off on their number.  I have a feeling that this is because less tech inclined people that would use the Compete Toolbar tend not to be Need 4 Sheed Fans.  The second thing we noticed is Busted Coverage was able to keep their traffic around after the blogger tournament in December.  Great work Guys.  The last item we thought was interesting was Bar Stool Sports jumping from 48,381 Compete Uniques last month to 117,064 this month.  We’re not sure how that happened but they must be doing a quality job over there.

As always please inform us if you think you should be on the list.  For the bloggers on the list grab this badge, link to the post, and put it up on your site to show your readers where you stand: