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December 4, 2006 | Tate Linden

While there were minimal changes in the rankings this week, the big news comes from the addition of seven blogs to the list. Even better, it appears that most of them are active.

I haven't figured out if I want to keep the inactive sites on the list... since there may be good data on the sites, and perhaps by drawing attention to the sites I can encourage/shame/cajole the owners into picking up the banner again.

THREE MONTH ALEXA RANKING AVERAGES (12/04/2006):

1 Wordlab: 69,585 (1,728 Better) 2%
2 Igor: 151,413 (4,439 Worse) -3%
3 Stoked Brands: 185,599 (25,942 Better) 14%
4 Strategic Name Development: 223,091 (11,602 Better) 5%
5 Snark Hunting: 280,475 (2,245 Worse) -1%
6 Qwerky: 322,480 (89,512 Better) 28%
7 Good Characters: 967,530 (143,072 Better) 15%
8 Catch-Word: 1,191,156 (NEW) - INACTIVE
9 Away With Words: 1,425,534 (119,167 Worse) -8%
10 Beep.Name: 2,367,001 (NEW)
11 Product Names: 3,039,036 (NEW)
12 Popwink: 4,491,290 (24,114 Better) 1%
13 Name Ideas: 6,888,294 (NEW)
14 Rich With Meaning: N/A - INACTIVE
15 Brandnama: N/A (NEW)
16 Pastelot (French): N/A (NEW)
17 Motorbrand: N/A (NEW) - INACTIVE

Amongst the top six blogs there is a significant tightening up of ranks. Any one of the 2-thru-5 blogs could get bumped by the one below as soon as next week. Same goes for 7-thru-9. My money is on Nancy (of Away With Words fame) overtaking the dead Catch-Words site in the next couple weeks.

I can't be sure that I have every blog yet. I had a couple suggestions to add in MarketingProfs, but have decided to defer since they aren't actually a naming blog, and their Names and Taglines section is actually more of a bulletin board or forum. Other suggestions included more general branding blogs and marketing blogs. Sorry... we're trying to stay with blogs that are talking about naming at least weekly.

If you know of more sites I can add keep sending me the links - or just post a comment here.

Biggest Moves:

  • Positive Percentage: Qwerky
  • Postive Alexa Rank: Good Characters
  • Negative Percentage/Alexa Rank: Away With Words (It must've been those links she had to our site for Thanksgiving.)

I'll continue having this as my Monday posting for a few weeks at least. I'm learning a lot from all of your sites, and am enjoying getting to know your thoughts and styles. Once we get everyone on board I may pass the collection and ranking off to an associate, or if there is no interest from the blogosphere we'll just track it internally.

Good luck next week!

Tate Linden
Principal Consultant
Stokefire Consulting Group
703-778-9925

4 Comments
steven manning December 6, 2006 3:35 PM

Let's not forget the naming blog by A Hundred Monkeys: http://tonofbricks.typepad.com/ton_of_bricks/

Tate Linden December 6, 2006 3:44 PM

Thanks Steven!
It'll be there next week.

...no update since October, eh? Damn.

steven manning December 6, 2006 3:51 PM

I don't know what's up with them, but I've found the irony to be that with Snark Hunting being successful I am now too busy with naming work to write it more than once a week. So unless you have a dedicated blogger at your company whose responsibilities don’t increase as the business grows, you are going to hit a popularity ceiling.

Tate Linden December 6, 2006 8:33 PM

Interesting Steven. I've had to start pre-writing some posts due to scheduling. Feels a little like cheating. I can see that at some point I'll be following your lead and reducing my exposure to the blog. I'm going to hold out as long as possible, though.