Technorati launches 'most linked sites' index

Posted by Simon Day on March 10, 2009 at 4:05 PM

Blog search engine Technorati today released a list of main stream media sites with the highest number of blogs linking to them. The site provided a list of the 50 media sites that received the most links from blogs over the last 30 days.

At the top the list was YouTube, followed by The New York Times, BBC News, CNN.com and MSN.

While acknowledging the tension between mainstream media and blogs, Technorati also discovered a reciprocal relationship between the two online forums. In their State of the Blogosphere study, bloggers were questioned on the influence of media. Internal relationships with other blogs were the most influential, being the linked source of information 61 percent of the time. However, the second most important source for blogs is the primary information found on major media sites, which were linked to 46 percent of the time.

Author of the index Jen McLean described this growing interdependence of mainstream media and blogs as, "a convergence, and a symbiotic relationship."

Here is the list of most influential media sites on bloggers based on the number of links, according to Technorati: