Top 100 Independent Travel Blogs and Websites: Volume 41
We’re Back… with some Changes
Fist of all, I apologize for the delay in updating this list. I think it’s been nearly four months since I did an update. The truth is that I’ve been insanely busy. Between my travel magazine, Brendan’s Adventures, my new Youtube travel video channel, and the fact that I’m travelling through West Africa where access to the internet isn’t exactly on every corner, well, let’s just say keeping up has been a struggle.
Still, I know how important this list is to some of you so I’ve made sure that I set aside a couple days aside to do the update it again. It really does take me at least a day to do the update. Luckily this time I had some help from one of my staff members at the magazine who ran all the Alexa score for me which allowed me to focus on the list.
I’ve made some slight changes to the list but nothing major. For next month I’m hoping to work in some sort of social media score and get rid of the Alexa score all together.
What Changes were Made?
The truth is that most of the changes won’t be seen here on the top of the list but at the bottom.
- I decided to chop out any site with an alexa score under 1,000,000. If your site has an alexa score worse than 1,000,000 please assume it has been cut from the math, and feel free to submit again when your blog or website surpasses that mark again.
- Alexa Score has a slightly lower impact on the scores
- Again, I’m hoping to phase out, or at least weaken, the alexa score in the future and possibly work in some sort of social media score.
About the Rankings
On to the Rankings
Rank | Website | Score |
1 | Ytravel Blog | 92.4175869121 |
2 | Uncornered Market | 91.9063394683 |
3 | Land Lopers | 91.5239263804 |
4 | Nomadic Matt | 91.4243353783 |
5 | Everything Everywhere | 91.3865030675 |
6 | The Planet D | 91.0887525562 |
7 | Fox Nomad | 90.4883435583 |
8 | Wild Junket | 90.0973415133 |
9 | Go Nomad | 89.5811860941 |
10 | Bacon is Magic | 88.4351738241 |
11 | Wandering Earl | 88.3415132924 |
12 | Hecktic Travels | 88.1775051125 |
13 | Go Backpacking | 88.0752556237 |
14 | Adventurous Kate | 87.9950920245 |
15 | Beers and Beans | 87.9411042945 |
16 | 20s Something Travel | 87.6104294479 |
17 | Trans-Americas Journey | 87.5501022495 |
18 | Ott’s World | 87.4032719836 |
19 | Velvet Escape | 87.1014314928 |
20 | Green Globe Travel | 87.0486707566 |
21 | Hole in the Donut | 87.0126789366 |
22 | Wandering Educators | 86.9946830266 |
23 | Go See Write | 86.8703476483 |
24 | The Travel Dudes | 86.6797546012 |
25 | Over Yonderlust | 86.5676891616 |
26 | Nomadic Samuel | 86.3288343558 |
27 | Almost Fearless | 86.2527607362 |
28 | Art of Backpacking | 85.9190184049 |
29 | Legal Nomads | 85.8257668712 |
30 | Wandering Trader | 85.5059304703 |
31 | Traveling Canucks | 85.3942740286 |
32 | Dangerous Business | 85.3766871166 |
33 | 2 Backpackers | 85.2339468303 |
34 | Ordinary Traveler | 85.0789366053 |
35 | Wild About Travel | 85.0298568507 |
36 | Neverending Voyage | 84.6650306748 |
37 | Chris Around the World | 84.5235173824 |
38 | My Destination | 84.4310838446 |
39 | Johnny Vagabond | 83.7889570552 |
40 | Inspiring Travelers | 83.4879345603 |
41 | Around the World “L” | 83.4830265849 |
42 | Globe Trotter Girls | 83.0118609407 |
43 | Four Jandals | 82.9505112474 |
44 | Finding the Universe | 82.6658486708 |
45 | Ali’s Adventures | 82.5447852761 |
46 | Inside the Travel Lab | 82.5137014315 |
47 | As We Travel | 82.4384458078 |
48 | Travels of Adam | 82.4245398773 |
49 | That Backpacker | 82.3149284254 |
50 | Travel with a Mate | 81.8290388548 |
51 | TravMonkey | 81.7938650307 |
52 | The Aussie Nomad | 81.7218813906 |
53 | Migrationology | 81.5844580777 |
54 | Grantourismo | 81.4713701431 |
55** | Sophie’s World | 81.318609407 |
56 | Travel O Cafe | 81.0429447853 |
57 | Our Oyster | 81.0208588957 |
58 | Just Travelous | 80.9848670757 |
59** | Everywhereist | 80.9374233129 |
60 | The Travel Chica | 80.8654396728 |
61** | Stop Having a Boring Life | 80.7934560327 |
62 | Turkish Travel Blog | 80.6560327198 |
63** | Champagne Living | 80.563599182 |
64 | Hejorama | 80.4204498978 |
65 | A Little Adrift | 80.3173824131 |
66 | Indie Travel Podcast | 80.2642126789 |
67 | Grounded Traveler | 80.199795501 |
68 | No Vacation Required | 79.9492842536 |
69 | Don’t Ever Look Back | 79.9263803681 |
70 | Wanderlust and Lipstick | 79.8196319018 |
71 | My Beautiful Adventures | 79.6687116564 |
72 | Travel Wonders of the World | 79.500204499 |
73 | Touropia | 79.3595092025 |
74 | Maitravelsite | 79.2065439673 |
75 | The Vacation Gals | 79.1582822086 |
76 | Man on the Lam | 79.0961145194 |
77 | Nomadic Chick | 79.0147239264 |
78 | Neverending Footsteps | 79.0069529652 |
79** | For 91 Days | 78.7533742331 |
80 | The Adventures of D | 78.7042944785 |
81** | Teaching Traveling! | 78.6421267894 |
82** | Overlander TV | 78.5357873211 |
83 | Budget Travel Adventures | 78.3926380368 |
84 | What’s Dave Doing? | 78.1619631902 |
85 | Longest Way Home | 77.8413087935 |
86 | Ken Kaminesky | 77.7611451943 |
87** | Monkeys and Mountains | 77.7055214724 |
88 | Travels with a Nine Year Old | 77.6948875256 |
89 | Travelettes | 77.6646216769 |
90 | Off Track Planet | 77.5574642127 |
91 | Fevered Mutterings | 77.5445807771 |
92** | Travel Sex Life | 77.5443762781 |
93 | Travel Yourself | 77.2057259714 |
94** | Will Peach | 77.1329243354 |
95 | Solo Traveler Blog | 76.863803681 |
96 | Runaway Jane | 76.7476482618 |
97** | Amateur Traveler | 76.736196319 |
98 | Delicious Baby | 76.6920245399 |
99 | Nerdy Nomad | 76.5758691207 |
100 | Runaway Juno | 76.5750511247 |