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Issue 4 > Where to find fresh blogs, and how to get your blog discovered.

Where to find fresh blogs, and how to get your blog discovered.

Chris Garrett snapshots some top tips for reaching others with your blog.

A reader of my digital photography blog asked me how I find new blogs to subscribe to. At first I was surprised at the question, as I add new blogs to my feed reader all the time. In fact I really ought to trim it down. It is an important issue after thinking about it.

Thinking about how you find blogs could get you more readers. So what are the main ways people discover new blogs to read? Here are my methods ranked most-common to least.

  • Other bloggers' links. The obvious one. If you are reading a blog you can be pretty sure what they link to will also be of interest. The problem with this method is the old 'echo chamber' effect. If everyone in your niche reads the same content where do new stories come from?
  • Links in. If someone links my blog I will go take a look at theirs and subscribe if I like what I see.
  • Comments. Similarly if someone leaves an interesting comment on one of my posts I will follow back to their own blog to see what else they have written.
  • Technorati/Delicious/Digg/etcetera. You would have thought this would be the main way I find new blogs but I rarely search with the intention of finding blogs. I do however have some searches set up in my feed reader. Perform a search then look for the little orange RSS/XML button.
  • Directly emailed suggestions. I very rarely subscribe to a blog that has been 'recommended' to me via email. The majority of these 'suggestions' are spam or link requests. There is a right way and a wrong way to do these. I don't even read obvious SEO-motivated and/or automated link requests, I hit the 'junk' button on them.

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