I’ve been looking at the god-blog demographics in a series of posts exploring who we are and how to find us. There have been some surprising findings.
One of the things I’ve noticed with these posts is the number of non-english speaking bloggers that have searched out this series.

Did you know your blog reaches more people than most churches do?
Accountability and discipline.
Part 1 looks at where to start finding god-blogs.
Part 2 looks at portals, blogrolls and what readers and bloggers want.
Part 3 breaks down two other US god-blog portals and the ratios such as gender, age and location.

This entry looks at another US portal. blogs4God is privately owned and has been operating since August 2002. A blogger wishing to be listed agrees to the statement of faith. The blog is reviewed by the owner or a moderator of one of the several categories provided, and is accepted or rejected based on adherence to orthodoxy. Unlike JesusJournal.com, a blogger can ask to be removed from the portal at any time.
Blogs are removed if thier content is non-compliant, and people blogging under a pseudonym are not accepted.
The categories are useful for the technical running of the portal and for the front page cache due to the number listed, and for the benefit of the volunteer category moderators.
A blogger is asked to pick a category upon application, and can change to another category upon request. I reviewed blog4God.com the first three weeks of November 2003, using Who Links Who.

905 links were looked at.
81 were dead
26 were re-directs
17 were 404
5 were repeats
22 had not been updated in the past six weeks
2 were not blogs

Of the live links there were:
457 males
111 females
31 were pseudonyms
6 were church blogs
4 were couple blogs
26 were group blogs
8 were zines

Of 457 males:
8 were teens
135 were in their 20’s
93 were in the 30’s
63 were in their 40’s
9 were in their 50’s

Of 111 females:
2 were in their teens
34 were in their 20’s
27 were in their 30’s
15 were in their 40’s

104 were identifiable as Catholic
241 as Protestant
4 as Orthodox

Blogs identifiable by country:

16 Australia
1 Brazil
34 Canadian
1 France
3 Hong Kong
1 Indonesia
4 Japan
2 Netherlands
2 New Zealand
1 Malaysia
5 Philippines
2 Puerto Rico
2 Singapore
23 United Kingdom
537 United States

81 of the 905 links were identifiable as priests and ministers.

15 blogs required a sign-in, so I did not pursue them.
There are more identifiable teen’s on line, they tend in this sub-division to use group blogs such as Live Journal.

Platforms were pretty evenly divided, many of the re-directs were upgrades from Blogger/Blogger Pro to Typepad, MT, Radio Journal. Bloggers that quit, tended to do so more in the first six months, and tended to be in their 20’s.
In the final god-blog demographic post I will break down 100 random blogrolls and look at god-blog portals outside the US.