Where and How Do Consumer Access Blogs?

Where are they?!

                If you’re the average consumer trying to get into the blog scene, you’ve got a whole lot of exploring ahead of you. Unless you know exactly what you’re looking for, you could search blog after blog for hours on end; I’d imagine there are more blogs on the internet than you have time in your life to read. Tumblr alone boasts 182.9 million blogs and 83.1 billion posts, and that has to be more information than one person can soak up in an entire lifetime. That’s why it’s good to know what kind of blog you are looking for. With just a quick Google search of, “where to find blogs” the third site listed was titled “10 ways to find blogs you’ll Love”. If you follow this link, http://mashable.com/2011/04/11/blog-discovery/ you can find a comprehensive list of some solid sites that will take you to exactly what you’re looking for.

The number one website listed is alltop.com. Alltop has an easy to use site that lets you browse a seemingly endless list of blogs as well as search through categories to find exactly what caters to your taste. At the top of the page, the categories are broken up as follows, work, health, culture, interests, tech, people, good, news, geos and sports. If you can’t find something in that list that appeals to you, either you’re a robot or have absolutely no interests! Highly unlikely, so go check out Alltop if you’ve got some time to kill and find yourself extremely bored.

                Another great site for finding your future blogging interests is technorati.com. Technorati is cool because they have a pretty solid search engine that lets you search for blogs or blog posts by keywoards. If you were looking for a blog about food you could search “recipes” for example. Or if you were looking for a specific recipe you could search for “parmesan encrusted tilapia” if you were so inclined (I highly recommend that recipe by the way, who knew that parmesan and tilapia mingled so well? It’s a tango conceived in heaven for sure). With this search function you are bound to find exactly what you’re looking for, or at the very least something directly related to your search. Technorati also has a list of their top blogs, which are generally very well written and have been proven to be a step above the average joe’s home blog. Technorati’s top 100 is something you can use to find the best websites that have the most popular blogs the internet has to offer.

                Another exceptional website to try is blogcatalog.com. I find it to have a more elegant lay out than the previous sites I mentioned. Boasting many pictures, this website is intelligently designed and has a few cool features of its own; one being their VIB posters. I believe VIB stands for Very Important Blogger and these blogs are featured on Blogcatalog’s homepage. This helps the blogger draw more attention to their blog, there are no prerequisites to become a VIB but I would image that since they pay 200 dollars a year or just 25 a month to be recognized as a VIB, their blog is probably a higher quality than the one you’re reading right now.

                Whatever site you settle on, or fall in love with, I have presented some options that should help you take full advantage of the world of blogging. With as many millions of blog on the internet you’re going to need a little help finding exactly what you’re looking for. Utilize those sites and become enamored with your new favorite blogs; you can thank me later.