Imaginif: Top 10 Australian Women’s Blog
October 25th 2007 by Megan Bayliss in Child Abuse
Child protection has made it to the elite Australian blogging lists for the second time in a week. Today I did my daily visit to All for Women and find that Imaginif is sitting at number 6 on the list of Top 50 Australian Women’s Blogs.
I was ecstatic that we had jumped high (#68) into the index of the top 100 Australian blogs but to now enter the list of top 10 women’s blogs is just amazing. Many of you may find my excitement rather pathetic and sad. Let me assure you that for those who work in child protection this is just the greatest honor - putting child protection into the blogosphere and making it easy for parents to find information is just about all I work for. It is hard yakka raising the profile of child safety, and particularly child sexual abuse. It is a niche topic that turns many people off because they view it as “distasteful”. For a child protection blog to now be on the two Aussie elite lists signifies that we are collectively caring about keeping our kids safe. More importantly, it signifies that the blogosphere cares - people like you give a damn about keeping our kids safe. Thank you.
What’s next on my list climbing, child protection spreading agenda then?
- Increasing our subscriptions so that more people read the child focused blogs daily (won’t you help child protection spread further by subscribing to this blog please? Right hand side bar - subscribe in a reader or via email)
- Making Alexa’s list of top 100,000 sites, and
- Being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey about why we use blogging as a platform to raise consciousness about child protection and child safety.
Blogging is here to stay. If you give a blog about keeping kids safe from all manner of harms, join Imaginif in our crusade to make child protection bread and butter - something that everyone does on a daily basis.
Imaginif….there was a world without child abuse.
Article by Megan Bayliss
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October 25th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Uh oh - already we have dropped in rank to number 18. This has occurred because more Aussie women bloggers have wanted to be included in this prestigious list. Now, more than ever, it is important to keep the anti up on child protection as a serious issue.
Child safety everywhere, including on-line safety.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Congratulations! How do they determine who get into the top spots in Australia? Do they use your Google PR, Alexa Ranking, Technorati? Or is some other method used?
October 25th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Hi Megan - Well done again
Opal - it’s an average of Technorati ranking and Alexa (Australia) rank.
October 26th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Megan, congratulations! Fighting abuse should be a mainstream topic and the work to prevent abuse is positive rather than depressing as too many people still assume.
Keep up the good work.
October 26th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Sorry Megan that you got dropped down. The orginal formula was not overly accurate so some tweaking was needed. But I’m sure we will see you climbing the ladder
October 26th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Hello you lot above. Lovely to hear from you all.
Opal - as Meg said, Leigh from All for Women works out the average from technorati and AU Alexa. The average is then graded without any weighting. Meg keeps the top 100 Australian index and she uses a different formula. She looks at the global and Au Alexa ranking and at the Technorati authority. She divides by variables and updates fortnightly. Opal out Australian blogosphere is much smaller than the US one. There are very few women my age (43) who use computers and there are few people I know who even know what a blog is. Australia doesn’t have fast internet and there are many places where our fastest (broadband) doesn’t even work. Because Australia is a huge country, polarised by geography , climate, culture, tradition and sophistication, we have pockets of people who hang together because they understand each other - hence the bloggers. I talk to my blogging friends in a language that would possibly get me committed to a psych hospital if I used it with my colleagues. Meg and Leigh have taught me heaps about blogging and the blogosphere, as have many of your posts Opal. I thank each of you profusely and want you to know that you have made my world a better place to be.
Meg - I so appreciate everything you do to assist and to educate. I had to have a laugh at one of your recent blogs where you were commenting on us having to suffice with your eclectic content rather than hard driven niche topics. I gotta tell you Meg, I love your blog and voice just the way it is! Plus, nice name…lol.
Marcella (abyss2hope) - 100% agreement here. I LOVE my sexual abuse prevention work more than anything else. I find it stimulating, positive and exhausting. I go to bed knowing I’ve earned my money and contributed in a way that many people wont. Before I die I intend to help abuse prevention issues be as mainstream as turning on a light when it gets dark. I have just met with a marketer who is going to do the research around why people find abuse issues distasteful, scary, to be avoided or what ever else they might think about it. Making these two Aussie lists though does make a statement about how we as an internet community are ready to accept the issues and work against child abuse. I have said for years that with prevalence figures of 1 in 3, business and marketing needs to take into account the massive power of people who have been hurt as children. That power will one day surface and change trends, programs and spending habits. I long for the day where the globals that use child slave labor to produce their expensive product, go broke, because the community has accepted that purchasing the global’s product equates to supporting child abuse.
Leigh: No need to apologise at all. The second score pad is the more realistic one and gives me more room to improve and climb. Thank you for your untiring contribution to women and to child abuse issues - want to come with me when Oprah rings up and says she’s flying me over for an interview?
Take care and stay safe everyone. Today is the traditional and international Reclaim the Night march day - a day where women take to the streets in peaceful protest against sexual violence. We’re having a “Light march” (a blogging relay of sorts). Follow the posting instructions in Reclaim the Night Light March so that I’ve got someone to immediately link to.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Well done Megan. Don’t be sad when the ranking drops. It’s good to have but it’s just a number. More importantly is your readers and your impact to them. If you’re doing a good job, no ranking can beat a bunch of loyal followers. Keep it going!
October 27th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Hey Abel
I’m not sad. I’m actually glad that the ranking was tweaked because it now provides a more accurate picture. That is only good. I just adore my readers and their comments. One thing I have learned about myself over the years is that my loyalty is solid and that people against child abuse have my loyalty.
Hope all is well in Malaysia. Must be rather warm that close to the equator because it is stinking hot here on the Great Barrier Reef.