Although Search Engine Land isn’t in the same league as the other blogs (it is mostly a news site rather than a blogging oriented), it is fair to compare it to other marketing blogs in that it offers tons of marketing news daily.
Search Engine Land’s opponent is Daily Blog Tips, a quality blog about blogging. Sow does it end? Well, keep reading!
Stats were frozen on October 17th
Round 1:
Average comments from the last 10 posts.
DailyBlogTips: 17, 32, 28, 25, 28, 28, 17, 30, 10, 47 = 26 comments
SearchEngineLand: 3, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 4 = 1 comment (must be registered to comment)
Round 2:
RSS subscribers:
DailyBlogTips: 14400
SearchEngineLand: 29441
Round 3:
Post frequency: (posts over the last 10 days):
DailyBlogTips: 12 posts
SearchEngineLand: 94 posts
Round 4:
Out of the last 10 days, the number of posts about marketing:
DailyBlogTips: 12/13 (The one post was for Blog Action Day 2008, on poverty.)
SearchEngineLand: 85/94 (This week in searches, Google phone, others)
Round 5:
Percent of page above the fold with ads (out of 605786px):
DailyBlogTips: 15.5% (6*125*125 = 93750px)
SearchEngineLand: 15.2% (4*125*125+2*125*68+1*88*140 = 91820px)
Round 6:
RSS feed:
DailyBlogTips: Full
SearchEngineLand: Partial
| Round | DailyBlogTips | SearchEngineLand |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Total: | 3 | 3 |
Bonus round:
RSS annoyance level:
DailyBlogTips: None
SearchEngineLand: A ton. With 94 posts over 10 days, it really eats up space in the feed reader. Granted, they are generally great reads. It is just hard to keep up with. Besides, I had to break the tie somehow!
And the winner is:
DailyBlogTips
Congrats to DailyBlogTips. Your blog will move onto round 2 of Blog Fight: Marketing Guru!
Written: Oct 27, 2008
Tags: blog fight, blog fight marketing guru, blog fight marketing style, blogging, daily blog tips, search engine land, Web Development
Daniel Scocco
October 28, 2008 @ 7:14 am | Reply
Such an honor
.
Thanks for the interesting match.