Blogged.com Offers Simple Way to Find Blogs - Searching with Blogged.com
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At first glance, Blogged.com’s home page looks a little crowded, but everything quickly falls into place. At the top in the middle, there is a search box; to the right of this is the inevitable Signup/Login link. Most of the rest of the page is taken up with blog categories, featured bloggers, links that let you browse blogs by topic, and hot blogs. Here’s a screen shot; it doesn’t quite capture everything, but it should give you some idea of what I mean:
Do you see that green rectangle near the top right? It lets you submit a blog. That’s worth keeping in mind if you have a blog of your own, and I plan to come back to that. But first, let’s start searching.
I’ll refrain from my usual craft-related searches; I bet you’re all curious to see how this blog search engine does when given a topic like, oh, search engine optimization, right? Let’s give it a try.
Okay, I know the screen shot doesn’t really do this view justice, so I’ll have to fill in the picture with words. Right at the top, you see that this listing shows you 1-20 of 323 hits. Near the top on the left, you’re told that these listings are sorted by rating (with the highest at the top, of course); you could also sort by relevance if you choose. The first one listed is the Search Engine Watch blog; no real surprise there. On the left you see a thumbnail of the site’s home page. Just below the name of the blog you get a couple of sentences that sum it up, with the keywords you searched for in bold. Right below that is the site’s URL.
But it’s the links below the URL that I think would be most useful to anyone searching for blogs on a particular topic. The first one links you to the category under which Blogged.com files the site. Follow that link and you’ll get to check out lots of other blogs on the same topic. The line under that is for the tags that have been associated with the blog.
A click on the category – “SEO & Site Optimization” in this case – gave me a different list. It’s longer, with a different site at the top. Oh by the way, I also discovered why there’s a separate entry for each blog’s actual URL. When you click on something you think might lead to the blog itself, you get an overview of the blog. I’ll tell you more about that in the next section.
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