Note: there’s an updated listing here.
Top Sydney food blogs and top Melbourne food blogs combined.
By Thang Ngo
In July last year, noodlies, Sydney food blog began this project with the humble goal of ranking the top 30 Sydney food blogs by estimated traffic. Since then, the project has grown over ten-fold – last month, the list included 347 Sydney food blogs.
As of today, I will be adding 246 Melbourne food blogs, with the help of Ed from Tomato. So for the first time, there will be a ranking system which covers Sydney and Melbourne food blogs. Following from the inagural March Quarter 2014 rankings, I’ll be publishing updates each quarter: March (below), June, September and December.
Noodlies Top Australian Food Blogs Ranking
With the inclusion of Melbourne, we are now closer to a national ranking system – Sydney and Melbourne cover around 68% of food blogs in Australia (estimated from food blogs registered on Urbanspoon). Subject to resources, noodlies intend to add one new capital city each quarter.
For now, please enjoy reading the 593 food blogs!
Top Sydney and Melbourne Food Blogs
As at 31 March 2014
Congratulations to Lorraine from Not Quite Nigella for taking out the top spot in the noodlies Top Sydney & Melbourne Food Blogs, March 2014.
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TABLE LEGEND & THINGS TO NOTE
- Rank column is the current rank.
- Blog is the food blog name, click to read that blog.
- Alexa Rank is a website ranking system developed by Alexa, a subsidiary of US giant, Amazon. Alexa’s traffic estimates are based on data from their global traffic panel, which includes millions of internet users using one of over 25,000 different browser extensions.
- Loc is the primary location of the blog.
A FINAL NOTE IN RELATION TO BLOGS WITHOUT A RANK
There are a few reasons why some blogs don’t have a rank:
- New blogs
- Low traffic
NEXT UPDATE
Noodlies intends to publish updates quarterly: March (above), June, September, December.
FEEDBACK
- If your food blog is Sydney or Melbourne based and not listed above, please Leave a comment and I’ll add your blog for the next round. Leaving a comment helps me track your request, please don’t email as it gets lost in the volume I get each day.
- Do you find this list and the ranking useful?
- What city should be added to the next update?
- Any other suggestions?
Enjoy!
Updates: (1/4) Total list is now 593 (from 595) blogs. Gourmanda and MAB vs Food were duplicated (shown in both Sydney and Melbourne listings). Gourmanda and MAB vs Food are now listed in Sydney.
It’s really not worth ranking blogs using Alexa. Their figures are generally a very long way out. There are a few good analyses of this http://moz.com/blog/testing-accuracy-visitor-data-alexa-compete-google-trends-quantcast or the more incendiary http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/29/anti-web-analytics/.
What’s more, Alexa rank is really easy to fake. For small sites like Australian food blogs, the sample size in Alexa is so small that the blogger could install the Alexa toolbar on their own computer and this would be enough to significantly grow their ranking.
A better approach might be using Open Site Explorer or SEM Rush’s tools.
Yep, imperfect, but it’s the only free and easy to collate data.
I agree with Phil, it is only really accurate for the top 10-20 blogs at most – the rest are very inaccurate (rank 200k+??) in that you can jump tens or hundreds of thousands of ranks by just installing a simple plugin because of the small sample size.
I would suggest either cutting down the top listing or at least making it more clear that it’s not a very accurate list as it’s quite unfair for comparing lower ranked bloggers. You may also want to make it clear that it’s based solely on the Alexa rank as the title suggests it’s a definitive list.
Good suggestion, Jess, will add clarification in the next update
If anyone is interested in how to boost/fake their Alexa rank – here’s how http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/550/how-to-boost-your-alexa-ranking-in-one-easy-step/
So few Melbourne ones in the Top 50, seems odd? Thanks, as always, for all the hard work on this 😉
Yep, does seem low for Melbourne. There is not exact way to get stats and I guess we’re dealing with what ever is freely available. In the TV ratings we use around 5,600 households to estimate viewing for 21m Australians. Imperfect, but we have to start somewhere 🙂
Can’t imagine how much work goes into this! Thanks for taking it on.
thanks for posting this up. definitely need this for the melb trip. really surprised about the top melb blog ranked at no 22 though…maybe it will change next time.
Thanks for all the work you put into this Thang! I find it funny that I’m on the list twice for both Sydney and Melbourne…I guess I do spend so much time in Melbourne that my entries do seem to be about a 65/35 split between the two cities!
ooooh better fix that!
I’m just glad I made the list this time ’round.
Thanks for all your hard work, Thang!
go you 🙂
Hi, great work on this.. another one for the list is http://foodequalshappyme.com/
I am the same as Gourmanda. I show up twice as Sydney and Melbourne. Thanks for putting the list together
I’ll quickly fix 🙂 thanks for letting me know mate
Interesting and a lot of work! But using the term “Top Australian Food Blogs” is misleading. Traffic is just one way to calibrate this. Others may be way harder to quantify but are even more important to my mind. Not so much the amount of traffic, but how ENGAGED that traffic is. Also difficult to assess is the standing, reputation and regard in which individual bloggers are held by their readers and in the community at large. If I was a savvy PR or marketing type, I’d be very wary of basing decisions about who to approach solely on this material.
Yep, good point it should be one factor and not the only factor, but at least it’s a start.
Hi Thang. Could you add my blog to the list going forward? Thanks.
Sure mate, will do
HI Thang, job well done! I can only imagine the work that went into this. Frankly I’m shocked to see my blog on the list at all but lovely, nonetheless.
Australia has some incredible talent in our food blogging community, whether its recipe writing or reviewing. I am always in awe of the skill and dedication of our bloggers and constantly learning how to be better from them.
So true, Yasmeen, the community is pretty special
Hi Thang, Good Things isn’t even showing??
Will start adding ACT blogs 🙂
Hi Thang, cannot imagine all the work that goes into this. Would you mind adding my blog to the list. It’s called The Gourmet Couture, website is thegourmetcouture.blogspot.com.au. Thanks!
For sure Shirley
Hey Thang+Tom for all the work compiling this. Lots of new sits to check out especially the melbourne sites: looking at foodrehab now 🙂
A gigantic task Thang to put together, well done yet again.
Add superchargedfood.com
Add http://www.allthingssicilianandmore.com – for Melb
Hi Thang 🙂
Could you please add my blog http://alittlebitoftang.blogspot.com.au to this list.
Thank you!
no probs, will do Steph for the next run
Thank you Thang. You’re awesome! 😀
Thanks for the list Thang! Love seeing Melbourne food bloggers on the list. Can’t wait to check them all out!
Add http://iamnotafoodie.com.au/
Great List – I’d love to be added, although I don’t think I get much traffic…www.roofoodblog.blogspot.com
Will do Rani
Hey, how did you miss my blog?? http://silviascucina.net
Delicious blog too! Will add for next run.
Thank you. The blog gave life to my first book , published by Penguin Lantern. My second book, published by Penguin will come out later this year, http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9781921383373/silvia-s-cucina
Hey Thang, good work on putting together the list. A lot of hard work there. Could I just point out that there are more cities in Australia than Sydney and Melbourne. Some of us live in and blog in Brisbane and would like to be included in a Top Australian Food Blogs list. Here’s mine for a start http://www.eatdrinkandbekerry.blogspot.com
Thanks for the comment. You may appreciate it’s a little work. Melbourne was possible because Ed was able to help compile the list. I’m intending to put on additional cities each quarter, depending on resources.
If you’d like someone from Brisbane to help I’ll put my hand up. Ed knows where to find me.
add http://www.thehungryfoodtech.blogspot.com.au/
Hi Thang,
Love what you do, not sure if I’ll have the numbers but would really appreciate if you could add me to the list.
My blog is at http://littlelauren.com/
Thanks in advance!
Hi! I think this is a really interesting exercise and a good start like others have pointed out. I just started my blog from Canberra, but I would like to feature other cities in the future. I hope someday I’ll it into the ranking
Sure Andrea, the next run due 30 June will include Canberra 🙂 so I will add http://www.cookingmexico.com.au/
Hi Thang! Thanks for opening my eyes to all the amazing foodie blogs out there – I can just see myself food-porn-procrastinating all over the web even more now! I’d love if you added my blog http://www.thehungrybabushka.com to your next round 🙂
Of course, Brodie, looks like it will be end of this month.
Add http://the-fit-foodie.com/
Hi Thang, just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the work involved in producing the list. I believe you inspired chompchomp to create the Western Australian version. I was thrilled to find my blog The Ponder Room made it onto the WA list at number 17 woohoo!! So good to get some feedback, as you know it can feel like you’re blogging in a vacuum sometimes. Anyway thanks again. Love your blog!
Thanks so much for your kind words of encouragement, Glennys. And yes, Chompchomp is wonderful! Your timing is amazing, the new list will be published tomorrow.. and I will get to including Perth in the future! Thanks again for stopping by.
Great to see the new list and fantastic that you’ll be covering Perth in the future too (I’d better get out to a few more restaurants before then hehe. Keep reviewing
I think you should add Brisbane based food blogs to your list – Brisbane has a great food vibe going on so why not take a look?
Yes, it’s added now https://noodlies.com/2014/10/top-australian-food-blogs-september-2014/
Hi Thang, great list our blog is http://www.gdaychef.com.au/blog (Melbourne Based)
Will add for next run mate
Hi Thang, thanks for creating this list. It’s an eye opener for me as I’m looking into creating my own blog sometime this year. It’s good to see what’s happening out there and what’s possible. I hope I’ll be able to ask you to add my blog to your list sooner rather than later :).
Sure, Shirley, would be glad to have more bloggers 🙂
This is a fabulous list. Thanks for doing all the hard work putting it together. I’d like to submit another blog if that’s ok: http://knifeforkchew.blogspot.com. Thanks again, Michelle.
you never updated the list? when you do, http://www.burgersofmelbourne.com.au is one to add 🙂