They're known as the A-listers -- those elite group of bloggers that seem to garner the lust, love and attention of other bloggers and most importantly, main stream media. The A-listers are invited to speak at conferences and share their wisdom . The A-listers names pop up everywhere. Other bloggers want to link to them in hopes that some of the A lister's blogging dust sticks to them.
When the mainstream media decides to invite a blogger to share their opinions, they go to the A-list.
That's where the Z-list comes in. See in blogging, you get on the A-list by having a ridiculous number of people linking to your site -- its not necessarily about the number of people who visit your site, its about the links.
So the Z list was created to help the non A listers increase their link power. As they say "there is no A list so there can't be a Z list. Just Good Blogs."
Call it blogging envy or revenge of the bloggers but this is a list designed to challenge the status quo.
The Z-list was created on December 12,2006 by Mack Collier at Viral Market decided to create a meme called the Z-list. As he wrote
Here's the deal: In an effort to bring more link-love to those blogs that I feel aren't getting their due, I've created a small list of blogs below that I've linked to. The idea is to create a meme built around giving link-love to the blogs that deserve it, and hopefully turn Technorati's system of using a blog's # of links to determine its 'authority', on its ear.
This was his original list.
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
As of this morning, the list was over 300 strong. It's now being hosted on Squidoo where it has become a 'lens" where you can go to the list and vote. As of this writing, FunnyBusiness was number 12 on the list. There is another Funny Business (two words , not one) on the list. That's the group of bloggers who opted to use a name very similar to mine when they started blogging last May. More on that at another time.
If you decide to vote, a click on the up arrow is a good thing. A click on the down area drops the entry to a lower ranking on the list.
So vote now, vote often.
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