How to abide by other blogs to read

This is a quick guide to searching for other blogs to read, immediately that Google's blog-search tool has been retired.


Locating interesting blogs together with websites to regularly read - applying a magnifying drinking glass to the internet
If you lot write a blog, thence reading other blogs "in your niche" (ie well-nigh similar topics) is a actually expert idea. This lets you lot cash inwards one's chips along upwardly amongst what's going on together with what other people are saying, together with helps you lot to intend upwardly novel blog-post ideas.

An RSS-reader is a bang-up tool for managing everything you lot demand to read:  it's basically a folder amongst links to all the blogs together with websites you lot desire to follow, which shows when they accept been updated.   To brand best purpose of it. every bit presently every bit you lot run into an interesting website, become to your RSS reader software together with subscribe to the website's RSS-feed there-and-then: otherwise you lot volition almost for sure forget.   Alternatively you lot tin flame subscribe-by-email - provided the site offers that alternative - but many bloggers detect that their electronic mail gets overwhelmed if they create this amongst to a greater extent than than a few sites.

Some RSS software suggests websites that you lot mightiness similar to follow - although to a greater extent than oftentimes than non I've flora that the suggestions are pretty wide together with non overly useful.

So -  how else tin flame you lot detect novel blogs to read?


How to detect other blogs to read

Google's BlogSearch tool, RIP

Google previously gave us a dedicated blog-search tool at www.google.com/blogsearch, which was available from diverse places, together with nevertheless comes upwardly inwards the search results if you lot google "how to detect other blogs"

But apparently this is immediately re-directing to the Google abode page.   And fifty-fifty though I'm seeing that the re-directed URL is https://www.google.com/blogsearch?gws_rd=ssl - the search results that it returns are most definitely non exactly blogs.)

You tin flame nevertheless teach to it without re-direction at the moment, past times going to predictions are that this won't locomote for much longer.


Google News

This tool is available at https://news.google.com

It looks similar at that topographic point are a twain of versions available.

In the newer one, you lot tin flame evidently click Search Tools, select the “All news” drib down, together with pick out “Blogs.

In the older one, which I nevertheless have, to prioritise blogs inwards your news-feed you lot demand to:
  • Click on the gear cycle (button amongst a motion painting of a cog on it) close the peak correct of the screeen, 
  • Click on the Settings link that is to the correct of Save, and 
  • Under Sources laid upwardly Blogs to More together with Press Releases to None
  • Click Save Changes.


At the moment, the News content from blogs isn't the best - but indications from Google are that it volition teach improve every bit news-bloggers register their sites.

Search

Old-fashioned searching is in all probability ane of the most powerful agency of finding blogs.  To purpose Search to detect other blogs:
  • If you lot follow a topic, thence you lot should regularly search inwards Google for interesting questions inwards your niche, but non pick out the most-obvious results from the results page. Instead pick out the ones you lot haven't heard of, but which await promising.
  • Use a unlike search engine - either a mainstream ane similar www.bing.com or www.yahoo.com, or a to a greater extent than specialist custom search inwards your niche.
  • Include the give-and-take "blog" when you lot are searching. (This returns websites that purpose the give-and-take "blog" every bit good every bit blogs, thence isn't perfect. But it sometimes helps to plough upwardly novel sources.)
  • Search for interesting telephone substitution words together amongst the phrase "site:blogspot.com". Now, this volition solely rank you lot sites that don't accept custom domains - but some of them are great blogs.

Browse

One of the most of import ways of finding sites is past times - finding sites.    Be curious amongst everything you lot read:  ask who wrote it, who else they follow, together with what they are telling you lot well-nigh where they got their information.

Visit their sites, instead of exactly reading their spider web log posts inwards your RSS subscription tool, together with await at their blogrolls together with lists of interesting sites, together with run into if at that topographic point are whatever you lot don't know about.

Follow links inwards their posts, together with assess if they are pointing to blogs that you lot should last reading.

Look at their Twitter, Facebook together with other social networking sites:   she who they follow or interact amongst - together with thence banking concern fit if those people accept blogs.


Ask

This may seem foreign but exactly bespeak your readers for suggestions tin flame unearth some blogs that you lot won't detect whatever other way.     Of course of report it won't locomote if you lot inquire on your spider web log together with don't accept many regular readers yet - but you lot accept nil to lose.

But there's no argue why you lot cannot inquire inwards other mediums - eg past times leaving a enquiry on your Facebook page or the page of anyone else who mightiness know (and volition allow you lot write there0

Similarly you lot could post a enquiry on Twitter, together with a fourth dimension when people amongst lots of cognition well-nigh blogs inwards your niche are probable to last posting.


Use Blogger's Profile linking service

This approach was offset described inwards 2007 - which seems similar eons ago.   And today won't locomote for bloggers who accept a Google+ profile.  But it mightiness locomote nevertheless for novel bloggers, inwards particular.


Look inwards a Blog Directory

These are also somewhat old-hat, but some spider web log directories similar Alltop together with Technorati are nevertheless useful if the topics they characteristic accommodate your niche.



How create you lot cash inwards one's chips along the listing of blogs that you lot read fresh together with up-to-date?



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