The Pulse of the Blogosphere

February 4, 2008 by Gayla Baer  
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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 Criticism”

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.

 

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  1. 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!

  2. Laura says:

    Gayla,

    What a great list of posts! Thanks so much for sharing them with us.

  3. Guy Cohen says:

    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.

  4. Lisa says:

    Goodness what a list!

    That will take me a while to get through.

  5. Char says:

    Thanks for putting together this great list Gayla!

  6. Edward Mills says:

    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.

  7. My god, you must have spent a week compiling that list. And thus you saved me a week :) Thank you!

  8. Delphine says:

    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

  9. 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.

  10. Ear Plugs says:

    wow, all good post at same place, it will same some time to move here and there on net. thanks for shating

  11. David says:

    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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