The list of requirements is as follows:

- Readership
- Influence
- Subject matter
- Relationship with readers

The rules of the best blogger in the world contest – Readership

To crown the king or queen of the blogosphere, we need to think about what they do. What is their core product, and what they are offering to the people who come to their site. However, if nobody comes to their site, then they really can’t be crowned the best blogger in the world, can they? With this in mind, the readership criterian must be weighted quite highly against others. How many visitors is enough to prove readership then? Well, that is a question which many people can’t answer, but we can. Enough is a number that means that the writer couldn’t possibly be in touch with. Let me explain – this number is an amount which dwarfs the person’s ability to contact each of them in turn. We have been able to use a complex algorithm and mechanical number cruncher to work out that the precise number is 10,000 unique visitors per day at a website.

Ten thousand may seem like a huge amount of people, almost too many, and it might rule out a great number of bloggers who could conceivably be in the running to win the award of best blogger in the world (or in the history of the world). But, because there are actually thousands of bloggers out there, unless we set some sort of baseline figure it would prove impossible to find a true winner. And we will find a winner.