The Pulse of the Blogosphere
One of the driving forces behind my own personal blogging efforts has been the desire to combat infomercial style and high pressure sales tactics that suck those with entrepreneurial dreams into an abyss of debt with little, if any return on investment.
Since being introduced to the varied ways of earning a comfortable income online, I’ve witnessed so many pitches that no more than a fancy styled chain letter in an electronic age.
Have you ever wondered where exactly the pulse of the blogoshpere is? What successful bloggers are writing and what attracts their traffic?
Perhaps through the generous participation of some highly visible and successful bloggers you can find inspiration to jumpstart your own efforts in attracting readers, increasing profits and uncovering a sense of purpose in your writing.
Recently I sent out a call to several bloggers I’ve come to know and respect for links - links to their blog posts that have generated the most traffic/comments/links of all time. The following links, broken down by category will reveal to you, a large piece of the puzzle that is otherwise known as the pulse of the blogosphere according to Moi.
Web Design, Blogging, Writing, Internet, Business:
Essential Keystrokes - 6 Easy Steps to Making a Web Hosting Switch
Performancing - 10 Articles All Bloggers Should Read (at least once) - Performancing Blog Awards 2007 Winners
College Startup - 15 Successful Entrepreneurs Who Didn’t Need College
LOGICal eMOTIONs - 5 Key Components of Blogging - You Want Feedback - Not “Constructive Criticismâ€
Writing Thoughts - Ten Reasons Why You Should Hire A Professional Writer - Blogging and Personality Type - What I Learned From Travel
Work From Home Momma - Do You Remember These? - When Your Heart is Broken… How to Deal with Business - Should You Set Your Initial Price Low to Get Clients?
Business and Blogging - Coffee Break - How One Non-Profit Organization Uses Blogging - Dell: A Blogging Success Story?
Middle Zone Musings - Taking a Leap of Faith - Just Close Your Eyes and Floor It! - Three Points to Ponder When Your Ship Comes In - Blogapalooza - What I Learned From 2007 - A Guaranteed, Sure-Fire, Never-Fail Formula for Successful Blogging - Why I Never Set Blogging Goals
Small Biz Mentor - Target Infers Bloggers Are Irrelevant - What Happens To Your Passwords When You Die? - Partner With Another Business – Use A Double Sided Business Card
Grow Your Writing Business - Do You Make Readers Run A Comment Obstacle Course? - Tips To Make Other Bloggers Hate You – Comment Crazy
Randa Clay Design - The I Follow “Movement”
Inspirational and Motivational:
Evolving Times - 10 personal growth lessons from children - 10 Tips For Staying Positive Around Negative People - 51 Ways to Expand Your Comfort Zone - How to Install Love - 16 Personal Development Lessons From Harry Potter
Casual and Personal Blogs:
Casual Keystrokes - Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
Ride Lust - The Top 7 Gas Guzzlers of 2007
Candy Addict - Top 10 Grossest Candies
An Island Life - Do You Flush? - Struck By Lightening - Some Things Are Not Meant To Be Seen - Some People Shouldn’t Drink and Fly
LOGICal eMOTIONs - Engineered Meanings - It’s all about context - What about FINITE capacity?
Opinion Mom - Frugal Fridays: Cut Your Own Hair!
Call Hart - Funny Durex Condom Commercial - A Little History Of TV Ads - 1930 to the Present
PetLvr - What is the sex of my kitten?
Sports, Holidays & Family Oriented:
SoccerLens - 2007-2008 Premier League Kits
Work From Home Momma - Twenty-Five Thanksgiving Activities and Puzzles for Kids
My Two Boys - Thirteen Things I Want to Teach My Two Boys - 25 Things to Do While You Wait - Lead Free Toys
Principled Discovery - Just how different is a homeschool education? - If you want your child socialized - Updates on the Busekros family
And last but certainly not least, right here on MomGadget, the 5 most popular posts of all time are: Are you a selfish blogger? - Related Search Ads - Affiliate Marketing Just Got Better - MomGadgets Favorite Halloween Gadgets, Gizmos and Props - The Face Behind The Blog Collection and The Green Pan Review
As you can see, there’s certainly no exact formula for success when it comes to blogging. The topics of these blogs are as different and diverse as their authors - however, the one thing these successful blogs and their writers have in common is passion and a belief in what they write.
You don’t have to be John Chow writing about making money online - and you don’t have to be Darren Rowse writing about blogging to be successful. Whether your topic is candy, pets or whether or not your readers flush, as long as you believe in what you’re writing, your readers will believe in you.
Tags: blogging, business, weblog, successful blogging, work at home, wahm, affiliate marketing, make money online
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13 opinions for The Pulse of the Blogosphere
Robert Hruzek
Feb 4, 2008 at 9:35 pm
What a great and thoughtful way to spread the word about so many great bloggers! Not to mention give us all a chance to find new spots to check out.
Thanks for the double-extra effort, Gayla!
Cheers!
Laura
Feb 5, 2008 at 12:33 am
Gayla,
What a great list of posts! Thanks so much for sharing them with us.
Guy Cohen
Feb 5, 2008 at 6:53 am
Thanks for sharing those great links! To become a successful blogger, on my opinion, as a blogger when you write you should make sure that you deliver your topic very interesting and with good quality. So that readers get attracted to it and read your entire article.
Lisa
Feb 5, 2008 at 11:41 am
Goodness what a list!
That will take me a while to get through.
Char
Feb 5, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Thanks for putting together this great list Gayla!
Edward Mills
Feb 6, 2008 at 3:02 am
Gayla. What a great post! Thanks for taking the time to put this together. It’s very interesting to see what people are reading. Thanks for including Evolving Times in this wonderful resource.
Principled Discovery » A little reading while I am out
Feb 6, 2008 at 4:19 am
[…] takes the “pulse of the blogosphere,” collecting a few of the highest trafficked posts from several bloggers. It is interesting […]
Radom Nieruchomosci
Feb 6, 2008 at 1:27 pm
My god, you must have spent a week compiling that list. And thus you saved me a week :) Thank you!
Delphine
Feb 7, 2008 at 2:33 am
this is a great resource for us all. I’m so sick of watching those ridiculous commercials how people made huge amounts in their spare time.
I’ll be checking all this out. I also re-subscribed to your feed. I realize I haven’t been getting anything from you for a long while.
xoxo
Delphine
James Woolley
Feb 12, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Wow, what a great list. You can learn some very interesting stuff from other bloggers.
The trouble about the internet is that you can casually browse a few blogs or websites, go from one to another, then you look at the clock and about 2 or 3 hours have passed just like that.
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Ear Plugs
Feb 15, 2008 at 10:25 am
wow, all good post at same place, it will same some time to move here and there on net. thanks for shating
David
Feb 17, 2008 at 11:05 am
Great post. Unfortunately for me, my style of blog is different from most other people’s so I’m going to have to find alternative ways to get traffic.
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