Who Is The #1 Wine Blogger?
February 7, 2010 in United States by BurgundyStreet
For the longest time, i’ve been hearing a ton of people telling me that Alder Yarrow is the #1 wine blogger. I actually like his blog, and i enjoy the well written posts. I’ve also started hearing the same thing about Dr. Vino, who also has another great blog, with a HUGE amount of loyal readers. The posts on his blog are written well, and the coverage is very fair. Another great blog. The “argument” is really between those two and another candidate, Tom Wark of Fermentation.
Is everyone forgetting about Gary Vaynerchuk of the Wine Library in NJ? Are we also forgetting of his Vayniacs who follow this guy on cruises?? It took a simple trip to Compete.com to measure the analytics between the three. (i wasn’t able to measure Fermentation’s traffic due to the fact that he still hasn’t purchased a domain name in order to measure it on)
Traffic is everything. And the results are above. It’s not even close…. So my question is this: how the hell does the “American Wine Blog Awards” overlook Mr. Vaynerchuk’s nomination? It’s like Avatar not getting a nomination at the Oscars! Ridiculous.
I think overlooking @garyvee is a huge mistake. In fact, so much so that it makes me question the validity of this poll entirely. Did you DO an analysis on WineLibrary.tv and it’s market penetration? In fact, did you use any dedicated Web 2.0 tools for this analysis like Radian 6 or Trackr? Vaner Media OWNS the Wine market segment in the Digital Natives and Generations Virtual & Millennials world.
I would sincerely re-think your methodologies.