Often, my blogging trainees question me who I stay
updated all the time in blogosphere. I tell them I read several numbers of
blogs daily by subscribing their ESS feed.
How to find such blogs in the first place? After all, there
are millions of blogs on all kinds of niche. It would be a herculean task to
filter-right?
With so many blogs currently available online it can be
difficult to determine which blogs are worth reading and which are not. Yes, this is definitely difficult. You can
eliminate blogs of poor quality only by trial and error. There are no other
ways.
Through this blog post, I will share with you my
knowledge on finding and selecting blogs to read through search engines, blog
directories, Google alerts, Yahoo! Answers and so on.
Using
Search Engines to Find Blogs
Search engines are one of the most dependable resources
for bloggers to find useful blogs. An Internet user who is looking for a blog
on a particular subject can start the process of finding these blogs by
entering relevant keywords or phrases into a popular search engine and
carefully reviewing the results provided for this search.
Blog
Search Engines:
There are search engines exclusively for blogs.
·
Blogsearch.google.com
·
Technoratity.com
One simple way the Internet user can use search engines
to find blogs relating to a particular subject is to include the word blog with
the keywords or phrases entered into the search engine. This will help to
filter the search results and may push blogs towards the front of search
results. However, Internet users are better off searching for collections of
blogs and then searching within these collections for ones of interest.
Finding
Blogs on Message Boards
Many Internet users rely on message boards to find
interesting and informative blogs. This is because many message board
participants who have a blog often find ways to make others aware of this blog.
This may either be through the process of incorporating a link to the blog in
the message board user’s signature or, when appropriate, supplying the link to
the blog directly in the message body of a post on the message board.
Although
many bloggers may take advantage of the opportunity to promote their own blog
through message boards, those who are interested in finding new blogs will
likely not have time to review all of these blogs. Therefore, it is wise for
these Internet users to be somewhat discriminating about the blogs they choose
to visit. One way to do this is to only visit blogs of regular forum posters
who offer valuable information to the conversations on the message board.
The
Internet user may also wish to avoid blogs which appear to be posted as spam.
This is important because these blogs are not only likely poor quality but also
visiting these blogs only encourages the blog owner to continue to spam message
boards with his link.
Blogging
Communities:
I have found some of the best blogs that I read regularly
in several blogging communities.
·
Blogcatalog.com
·
Bloggers.com
·
Blogfrog.com
Making
Use of Yahoo! Answers.
Yahoo! Answers is an excellent source to ask for
anything. Highly knowledgeable members would be eager to provide answers which
are invariably very good.
