Sphinn - Many Voices or Just a Few?

A recent post on statistics I gleaned from looking at 2,500+ Sphinns resulted in a request for me to look at one area I had missed. Jeff Quipp of Search Engine People wanted to know which sites had their posts go hot most often. I'm not sure why I didn't look at those counts the first time around so thanks to Jeff for suggesting it. Anyway, I finally got around to pulling the information together.

Overall I'm pleased with the variety of content I, as Sphinn reader, am being exposed to. Sure, 25% of what goes hot comes from just 10 sites, but over half of what goes hot represents the thoughts of over 50 blog owners. I think that's pretty good for the relatively small niche of search engine marketers that also blog.

Top 5 Sites: 17.12% of hot Sphinns
Top 10 Sites: 25.44% of hot Sphinns
Top 25 Sites: 40.53% of hot Sphinns
Top 50 Sites: 54.66% of hot Sphinns

Here are the sites that make up the top 10:

1. Search Engine Land
2. Search Engine Journal
3. Search Engine Guide
4. Search Engine People
5. SEOmoz
6. Dosh Dosh
7. SEO Roundtable
8. TopRank Blog
9. aimClear Blog
10. Andy Beard

On the other end of the spectrum are the one-hit wonders at 12.3% i.e. sites that have had just one post go hot.

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