Holy November Misses, Blogman!
Uhm… okay, not sure where that came from… maybe it’s some of the leftover Halloween silliness – I’m not really sure. Either way, the miss I’m referring to isn’t Miss November but rather the November post on one of my favorite morning reads that laid out the top 30 ranked Talent Management Blogs.
I’m honored to again be in the Top 10 with some blogging greats like PunkRock HR, HR Bartender, Your HR Guy and many more. I was also excited to see some newcomers on the list. Here’s a snippet from the official FoT posting on how the ranking was shaken up a bit this year. Check it out along with all of the other great bloggers listed!
In all seriousness though, with this ranking we decided to use HubSpot Website Grader’s tool to tell us who is the best of the best. According to HubSpot, their grading tool gives a score, with 100% the maximum possible score. They evaluate “marketing effectiveness” which is based on a proprietary algorithm that blends over 50 different variables including search engine data, traffic, backlinks, etc. Now we realize, this takes out of the equation the human factor, the FOT factor. But this is pretty black and white, wouldn’t you say? And since traffic is a factor in the website grading… let’s hope trust that good content is what drives great blogs with high traffic.
As always, we hope you’ll learn about some new blogs to read in this process… and we give total props to our fellow bloggers for being such great inspirations for us to continue with our blogging. We’re happy to be in such great company. So with that? The top 30, their website grade and previous rankings if applicable. Over 160 blogs were graded and these came out as the cream of the crop according to HubSpot! Oh, and we added in FOT + the HR Capitalist for fun, just to see how we stack up (and damn it feels good to be in the top ten!).
