Google Blog Search is a great tool for helping you to:
- Get information about your niche
- Assess your competition
- Find blogs to network with
Google Blog Search is a search engine for blogs. Reading blogs from your peers and from mentors in your industry or niche can be very enlightening. By searching on a keyword or phrase you can find people to follow and subscribed to and you can get information that helps you in your own career. Whether you’re a blogger, an internet marketer or a Jack / Jill of all trades online, the blogosphere can be very helpful.
Assess Your Competition
If you want to be a professional blogger or online marketer you can see how other people are selling what you want to sell. This can spark ideas for your own strategy.
Find Blogs To Network With
It’s no secret that commenting on blogs in your niche can help you multi-fold. It can help you get visitors to your own blog and help you with your SEO by sending search engine spiders your way.
Tools:
On the Google blog search site you an also create Google alerts from the page, subscribe to a RSS feed in Google Reader and add a gadet to your home page for quick access.
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Google blog search looks like a very handy tool. I had really looked into it.
Finding information about my niche will be very welcome. The gadget could be very handy.
Hi Sean,
I’m with Gee on this. Google Blog Search is not something I’ve used before. I’ve been doing the same stuff manually. This will really save me some time because I won’t have to run around and chase after stuff. I’ll be able to bring it to me.
Hi Sean
I have just been looking at Google Blog Search and it is great. What an asset this is as now I will be able to find other people who are in the same niche as me.
In a past article of yours I commented about having a problem with researching but I feel this will be a great way to start now and you have given me lots of interesting ideas especially about looking at those who have a product similar to mine and then getting tips on strategies for marketing my product.
Commenting on blogs in a similar niche to mine would be very interesting too . There is power in numbers. Thankyou for this information.
THis blog article remnded me of another alert you can get as well as Google alerts. I regularly get alerts from SocialOOmph – based on keywords. It is a good way to suss out other sites etc
Google Blog Search will definitely be a useful tool. To test it out I did a search on fund raising and the first blog on the page will be quite useful in marketing the Mufindi Orphans site.
A great article that provided immediate results.
Another great free resource from Google to help us Internet Marketers achieve success! Finding relevant blogs is so much easier with this page and it is soooo easy to use. Assessing your competition is very important and also having a list of blogs you can easily access to leave comments for backlinks is fantastic!