We also love to read other blogs - particularly those written by fellow parents, mumpreneurs and Mummy-related ventures. But when we looked for a list of influential parenting blogs from the UK, we realised that a list doesn't really exist - although Susanna at British Mummy Blogs has made a great start here.



Although Mummy blogs are a newer phenomenon in the UK than in the US, we knew there were hundreds of British Mummy bloggers just waiting to be discovered. We pulled together a list of around 250 UK blogs, but we had no idea which blogs were being read by parents, and which were most influential. So, with lots of help and advice from social media guru Brendan Cooper, we've put together our own list.

The Tots100 Index is the first index of the top 100 British parenting blogs and bloggers. How did we find our top 100? We took the 250 blogs we found and created a scoring system that rewards blogs for three things: currency (ie the blog has been updated regularly and recently), influence (other people link to the blog) and popularity (lots of people read it). We'll be updating the Tots100 Index regularly, and including details of movements up and down the index in future editions.

(For a more detailed explanation of how the rankings work, and how to submit a blog to the Index, read down to the bottom of the post.)

We hope those of you looking for great British parenting blogs will find the list useful, and perhaps you'll find a few new favourites in our directory - there are some brilliantly useful, funny, inspiring and moving bloggers in our index and we've loved discovering all of them.

Best Wishes,

Tracey and Lisa

The Tots100 Top British Parent Blogs and Bloggers:

Rank Blog Score

1 Petite Anglaise 741

2 Wife in the North 718

3 Jo Beaufoix 701

4 Alpha Mummy 696

5 My Boyfriend is a Tw@t 687

6 Crystal Jigsaw 681

7 Babyccino 670

8 A Modern Mother 640

9 Single Parent Dad 629

10 Notes from Inside my Head 610

11 The Potty Diaries 608

12 Bambino Goodies 597

13 The Bedside Crow 591

14 Man About the House 568

15 Woman of Experience 562

16 Bringing up Charlie 559

17 Millennium Housewife 522

18 Sticky Fingers 520

19 Noble Savage 517

20 Dulwich Wife 508

21 Little Mummy 507

22 Flower Fairies and Fairy Cakes 507

23 A Midwife's Muse 504

24 3 Kids, No Job 500

25 Mother at Large 499

26 Cotton Pickin' Days 498

27 Family Affairs 483

28 Menopausal Old Bag 475

29 Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman 472

30 Musings of a Juggling Mother 467

31 Home Office Mum 465

32 Breastfeeding Mums' Blog 461

33 Working Mum on Verge 449

34 Thames Valley Mums 446

35 Nappy Valley 445

36 More Than Just a Mother 442

37 Violet Posy 441

38 Nunhead Ramblings 432

39 You've Got Your Hands Full 428

40 Are We Nearly There Yet, Mummy? 405

41 Dulwich Divorcee 395

42 The Bush Babies 390

43 Family of Five 383

44 WAHM-BAM 382

45 Don't Panic - RTFM 379

46 I Promise That I Will Do My Best 378

47 My Life Now 367

48 A Confused Take That Fan 366

49 Single and Surviving 363

50 The Brinkster 362

51 Mom or Mum Wars 359

52 Most/Least 355

53 Good Enough Mum 323

54 Not Supermum 318

55 Suffolk Writings 313

56 Posh Mum 311

56 The Smell of Little Pong 311

58 Family Friendly Working 300

59 Keir Royale 286

60 39 and Counting 283

61 Motherhood: the final frontier 279

62 Tales from the Naughty Step 277

63 Married with Four 260

64 Mrs Trefusis 259

65 Mothers on the Verge 258

66 The Baby Juggler 255

67 Being Lucy Diamond 254

68 Miss Meep's Guide to Living 253

69 Teen Coach Blog 244

70 Lemon Drizzle 241

71 Arabella Miller 235

72 Family Relationships 229

73 Positive Parenting 222

74 Chunky Monkey 202

75 Is that me? How did that happen? 198

75 More to Life than Laundry 198

77 View from Nappy Mountain 189

78 Mothers Who Work 186

79 Little Sheep Learning 184

80 Totsy's Place 183

81 Diary of a Surprise Mum 179

82 Rosie Scribble 177

83 Pink Fairy Cake 172

84 Don't Tear Your Hair Out 171

85 Motherworld 166

85 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em 166

87 Family Treehouse 149

88 Adventures of a Sleepless Toddler 133

89 Mummo Mia 128

90 Music Bugs 125

91 It's a Mum's Life 123

92 Milky Moo 119

93 Jessica's Trust 118

94 Sleepy Tots Blog 91

95 Perfectly Happy Mum 74

96 Amanda's Adventures in Chocolate 63

96 Pixie Minx 63

98 Mum's the Business 61

99 Tots 2 Travel 54

100 Time Management Mum 43

What Do The Scores Mean?

120 blogs were originally included in the index. Each blog was assigned a score from 1 (bottom ranked) to 120 (top ranked) in seven categories:

1. Technorati Authority: number of blogs linking to this blog in the last six months

2. Technorati Inlinks: number of inbound links, excluding self-referring hits

3. Yahoo Inlinks: number of inbound links in last six months (excl self-referring hits)

4. Google Blog Hits: number of posts/links/weblinks in Google

5. Google Hits Recent: number of links from the last 30 days

6. Readers: number of subscribers based on Feedburner and Google Reader

7. HowSociable: the blogger's visibility outside the blog, measuring activity on sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

This meant a blog scoring the highest score in each of these categories would achieve a maximum score of 840 points. The lowest possible score was 7.

These aren't perfect metrics but we believe that combining measurements from Google, Technorati and Yahoo ensures an accurate reflection of a blog's influence, while the inclusion of HowSociable clearly showed how the top bloggers use social media to boost their blog's profile.

There are a couple of blogs on the index that haven't been updated in a few months, but still scored highly because of high numbers of residual links. We expect these links to reduce over time, and the blogs will fall down the index - but we'll be removing any blogs that haven't been updated in 6 months or more for the next index.

We welcome suggestions of how to improve the Index, as well as suggestions of new blogs to include in the next index. Our criteria for inclusion are simple: the blog must be by/about parents, be written by a British parent or a parent in the UK, and you need to score higher than someone already in the index.