Hi Daily Fix aFIXionados. I’ve been hunting around online for giant “We’re #9!” foam fingers, but surprisingly our super-competitive culture doesn’t extend that far into the numeric range….

Regardless, the cause for foam-finger wagging is that Mack Collier was finally able to update his list of the Top 25 Marketing Blogs, and the MarketingProfs blog shot up from number 22 to number 9 on the list.

I say "finally" because Mack's list relies on stats supplied by Alexa, which ranks blogs according to its own "secret sauce" formula of traffic/pageviews determining traffic ranking. After several dry August weeks during which Alexa failed to update, Alexa finally updated its rankings today.

The Daily Fix heads a conga line of celebrants that included some of my favorite bloggers, who also experienced big ranking jumps. They include David Armano (#15), Karl Long (#18), and Mario Sundar (#19). Check out Mack’s full list of Top 25 blogs at his Viral Garden site here.

As I have said in the past, if writing is a solitary pursuit, blogging is decidedly not. Unlike other forms of publishing, blogging is immediate and social, which means bloggers tend to make all kinds of friends and create all kinds of communities online. That's true of this group blog, especially, and a huge thanks goes out to all of you -- the readers -- for your daily drive-bys, comments, and occasional bricks through our windows.

An even bigger thanks goes to our long list of contributors, without whom this blog would be nowhere near as well-read as it is today.

They include (in the order of their affiliation with the blog): Allen Weiss, Jonathan Kranz, Roy Young, Shelley Ryan, Leigh Duncan, William Arruda, Jeanne Bliss, Elaine Fogel, Michael Perla, Eric Frenchman, Tig Tillinghast, BL Ochman, Sara Holoubek, Laurel Delaney, Seth Godin, Gerry McGovern, Mark Vanderbeeken, Andrea Learned, Carrie Shearer, Paul Barsch, Jim Kukral, Lee Marc Stein, Karl Long, Ted Mininni, Eric Ward, Scott Petinga, Tom Peters, Mike Schultz, David Armano, Eric Kintz, Harry Joiner, Mack Collier, Jim Kelly, John Jantsch, Jim Lenskold, Tris Hussey, Suzanne Lowe, Mike McLaughlin, Mike Wagner, Toby Bloomberg, Jill Griffin, Joseph Jaffe, Scott Baradell, Alain Thys, Mario Sundar, and Tom Ehrenfeld.

And a huge thanks to Mack himself, who pulls together the Top 25 list simply, as I tell my kids, "because." Thank you, Mack!