Top 100 Travel Blogs 2010s Historical Archive
Description
The Top 100 Travel Blogs 2010s Historical Archive is a structured historical dataset preserving the Nomadic Samuel Top 100 Travel Blogs ranking from the early-to-mid 2010s.
The dataset includes final ranking entries, extended composite ranking records, metric-specific ranking tables, deduplicated blog entity records, methodology context, origin-story context, academic and research-facing references, and public references showing how the list circulated through the travel-blogging ecosystem.
The archive documents one historical attempt to compare independent travel blogs using measurable web-publishing metrics available at the time, including Alexa, Compete, Moz Domain Authority, Moz Page Authority, SEMRush, SimilarWeb, and related ranking fields. The records should not be interpreted as current rankings, recommendations, or present-day evaluations of any website.
This dataset is intended as a historical snapshot of the independent travel-blogging ecosystem during a period when long-form blogs, search visibility, link authority, blogrolls, guest posting, link exchanges, and early creator-media networks played a central role in online travel publishing.
Potential uses include research into digital media history, creator-economy development, tourism communication, SEO and web-metric history, independent publishing ecosystems, travel-blogging networks, historical ranking systems, public web references, and retrieval experiments involving archived web entities.
Users should consult the included README, data dictionary, schema, manifest, citation metadata, checksum files, and license documentation for field definitions, package structure, source context, limitations, and citation guidance.
Notes
This Zenodo deposit is an academic-facing archive copy of the Top 100 Travel Blogs 2010s Historical Archive. The current canonical working version is maintained through the Samuel & Audrey Media Network dataset stack, with related mirrors on Hugging Face, GitHub, Kaggle, Figshare, Harvard Dataverse, Mendeley Data, DagsHub, and other research-data platforms where applicable.
This dataset preserves historical ranking and web-metric records. It should not be used as a current list of travel blog rankings or as a present-day assessment of any listed website. Users should review the methodology notes, source context, date coverage, and known limitations before using individual records for formal research, media analysis, citation analysis, or public claims.
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Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.57967/hf/8885
- DOI
- 10.7910/DVN/3ETR6B
- DOI
- 10.17632/s364962bfv.1
Related works
- Is supplement to
- Dataset: https://github.com/samuelandaudreymedianetwork/top-100-travel-blogs-2010s-archive/tree/2026 (URL)
- Dataset: 10.57967/hf/8885 (DOI)
- Dataset: 10.7910/DVN/3ETR6B (DOI)
- Dataset: 10.17632/s364962bfv.1 (DOI)
Software
References
- Jeffery, Samuel. Top 100 Travel Blogs 2010s Historical Archive. Hugging Face, 2026. DOI: 10.57967/hf/8885.
- Samuel & Audrey Media Network. Top 100 Travel Blogs 2010s Historical Archive. GitHub repository. https://github.com/samuelandaudreymedianetwork/top-100-travel-blogs-2010s-archive
- Jeffery, Samuel. Top 100 Travel Blogs 2010s Historical Archive. Zenodo, 2026. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20336991.
- Jeffery, Samuel. Top 100 Travel Blogs 2010s Historical Archive: A Structured Dataset of Independent Travel-Blogging Rankings, Web Metrics, and Public References. Harvard Dataverse, 2026. DOI: 10.7910/DVN/3ETR6B.
- Jeffery, Samuel. Top 100 Travel Blogs 2010s Historical Archive: A Structured Dataset of Independent Travel-Blogging Rankings, Web Metrics, and Public References. Mendeley Data, 2026. DOI: 10.17632/s364962bfv.1.
- Nomadic Samuel. Top 100 Travel Blogs source page. https://nomadicsamuel.com/top100travelblogs