Daily Blog Tips put together a Top 25 Blogs about Blogging list. This list is a promising field of undiscovered sources for someone new to blogging. It brings hope that I too can have over 400 subscribers to my feed after 2 months[can I do it, grab my RSS feed today, because I am sure to post my stats when the 2 month mark hits]. like Philip at I help you blog, he is #25 on the list.
Daily Blog Tips followed Todd And’s lead from Power 150 Top Marketing Blogs:
The interesting part is that the ranking is based on some numerical factors including Google’s Pagerank, Technorati Authority and Bloglines subscribers; which renders the list objective.
The Top 3 as calculated:
With links wait to be clicked I went to each other the Top 3 sites and looked for their tips to beginning bloggers. Here is what I found as the Top Tips and Lessons on blogging from the Top 3 blog about blogging.
The following tips where taken from the following posts:
- Problogger 18 Lessons I’ve Learnt about Blogging
- Be Lucky
- Work Hard
- Use the Power of Exponential Growth
- Differentiate Yourself
- Provide Value
- Target a Niche
- Diversify
- Don’t Spread Self
- Have a Backup Plan too Thin
- Be Light on Your Feet
- Relationships are Key
- Establish Boundaries
- Don’t read your Own Press
- Beware of Hype
- Get a Life
- Make Mistakes
- Be Yourself
- There are No Rules
- Copyblogger 10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers
- Make it easy and obvious
- Be laser focused
- Offer a bribe
- Use viral ebooks
- Dedicated subscription landing page
- Become a guest blogger
- Start a podcast
- Post in forums
- Networking
- Cross-promotional deals
- John Chow Five Beginner’s Blogging Tips
- Blog About Something Your Passionate About
- Get Your Own Domain Name
- Update The Blog Often
- Get To Know Your Readers
- Monetize The Blog With Multiple Sources
So, there are 33 individual tips from the Big 3. Interesting how they seem to melt together into the same things you parents told you as went out to find that first job so you could afford gas to go out. Now this is a post waiting to happen ‘What my first job search taught me about blogging’.
