How the ratings are scored
How things will be scored:
Alexa
I will leave part of this to Alexa.com where I will use there current rank score for your website. However, because I don’t want Alexa to have too much say on the matter, I will use their score on basic bell score model. For example, if I have 200 sites in the database, the site with the best Alexa score will receive a score of 99, where as the person with the worst score will receive a score of 0. Everyone else will fit in between.
My Score
I will also be judging your website myself. I will get a score out of 500 using 5 fields of judging. 1) site layout 2) site content 3) quality of writing 4) photography and 5) Interaction for readers. From those score I will take the average to give my grade of your site out of 200.
This way, Alexa will have one-thirds the say, and I will have two thirds say. I know, so much power vested in the hands of only one man. Thus, if someone has an alexa score of 80, and a score from me of 150 from me, they will have a score of 230. But since everyone like scores out of 100, I will divide it by 3 to get a score out of 100… in this case: 76.7/100
The highest score will be the top site!
How Often do I update?
I have all the sites that are included in the math lined up in a grid. Each day I will update the Alexa rating and my personal score of the between 15 and 30 different websites plus the new entries. Which means that each site should be updated each week.
Hi Brendan,
That’s amazing. But it means you have to check every blog every week?! Very exicted about being part of it and a huge thank you to you for putting it together:)
Happy travels, Annabel
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Thanks so much for this list I’m sure it is full of wonderful blogs and bloggers I want to be like when I grow up, I’ll be working my way through for sure
! As a “newbie” to the travel blogging scene we’ve lots to learn and even more to share, fingers crossed we make it to the top 100 some day 
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