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Blogging Resources for Book Authors, Publishers, and Internet Marketers

This page features blogging services, blog hosts, blog search engines, etc. If you'd like to nominate a site for this page, email John Kremer. I know that I have missed some sites I truly would like to add to this list. Your site might be one of those. — John Kremer, author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books

57 million Americans (out of 147 million Internet users) read blogs. 1.4 million new blog posts are created every day. 22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs. Technorati tracks more than 70 million blogs. Blogs are hot!

For blog tour and virtual author touring information, click here.

For group blogs and websites that allow outside bloggers, click here.

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Blog Hosting Websites and Services

Here are some websites you can use to create your blog . . .

Blogsome: http://www.blogsome.com.

Blogspot: https://www.blogger.com/start — The host for my Book Marketing Bestsellers blog.

Clear Blogs: http://www.clearblogs.com.

Community Server: http://www.communityserver.org — Offers corporate blogging platforms as well as platforms for creating social networks, forums, and other communities online. For one, they power the MySpace forums.

Cover It Live: http://www.coveritlive.com — Free software for blogging at live events.

When you use CoveritLive’s software your commentary is streaming live onto your web pages or blog, so your readers hear from you immediately after that election result comes in, or that terrible play gets called, or the next time an actor gets bleeped at the Oscars. Because they can instantly get their questions to you as well as participate in polling questions you create, there is a reason for them to stay online for a long time...not just check back in once in a while. Once you add in some pictures and videos all in real time, you’ve created an event worth watching.

Expression Engine: http://www.pmachine.com.

FeedBurner: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/blogs — If you write a blog, check out all the free services that FeedBurner offers to help you promote your blog to the Internet community.

Identi.ca: http://www.identi.ca — A micro-blogging website with a group feature built in. John's profile there: http://www.identi.ca/johnkremer.

Jaiku! http://www.jaiku.com — A micro-blogging website designed to work with any cellphone. Owned by Google.

Meebo: http://www.meebo.com — Instant messaging website. 500,000 users.

Our Story: http://www.ourstory.com — Blogging or social networking site for sharing stories. A service of Yahoo!

Plurk: http://www.plurk.com — Another microblogging website like Twitter. An interesting interface. John Kremer's profile there: http://www.plurk.com/johnkremer.

Six Apart: http://www.sixapart.com — Their Movable Type software allows you to host your blog on your site. Six Apart is now SAY Media.

SOS Blogs: http://www.sosblog.com — Create a blog or a free multi blog. A multi blog is a blog where many blogs can be created. John Kremer's blog: http://marketingresources.sosblog.com.

Square Space: http://www.squarespace.com — Blogging and website hosting service. But it seems to be in some trouble. Not responsive. No affiliate program tab though they say they have one. No way to communicate with them if you are not a member.

Today.com: http://www.today.com — You can get a free blog here, and get paid for your blogging (get paid $1.00 per post and $2.00 per thousand impressions; also get paid for referring friends). If you have an established blog, you can add it to the blog directory here.

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com — A free blogging platform for 140-character posts, especially designed for text messaging via cellphone and instant messaging. There are three million Twitterers. John Kremer on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/johnkremer.

TypePad: http://www.typepad.com — The most professional of Say Media's blogging hosted sites.

Vignette: http://www.vignette.com — Offers business blogging and social networking websites.

Windows Live Spaces: http://spaces.live.com — The blogging pages from Microsoft.

WordPress: http://www.wordpress.com. Offers hosted websites as well as blogging software.

Yahoo! 360: http://360.yahoo.com — The blogging and social networking service from Yahoo!

Zemanta: http://www.zemanta.com — Allows you to add some wonderful extra features to your blog, no matter which blogging platform you use. Features include live links, related articles, Facebook and Twitter connections, related photo galleries, SEO tags, reblogging, and more.

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Blog Search Engines

Use these search engines to find compatible bloggers, potential blogging partners, blogs to comment upon, and places to list your own blog:

All Top: http://www.alltop.com — An index of news stories and blog entries on almost any topic, featuring the top blogs and websites. Perhaps the best resource for locating partners and new web relationship possibilities.

Australian Blogs: http://www.AustralianBlogs.com.au — Hosted by BuggerAll.com.

Best of the Web Blog Search: http://blogs.botw.org — A selective listing of older and valuable blogs.

Bigger Blogs: http://www.biggerblogger.com — A relatively new directory with few listings.

Blogalaxia: http://www.blogalaxia.com — Features Spanish-language blogs.

Blogarama: http://www.blogarama.com — Features over 65,000 blogs via various categories.

Blog Carnivals: http://www.blogcarnival.com — A Blog Carnival is a blog post where someone takes the time to find really good blog posts from other bloggers on a given topic, and then puts all those posts together in a periodic blog post called a carnival. If you'd like to set up a blog carnival, this website will help you create and market one.

Blog Catalog: http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory — Search for thousands of blogs covering a wide range of topics.

Blog Clicker: http://www.blogclicker.com — A blog exchange site.

Blog Digger: http://www.blogdigger.com — You can search by date or by relevance. Also offers a local search (to find bloggers in your area) as well as a toolbar to access their search features right from your browser.

Blog Directory: http://www.blog-directory.org

Blog Explosion: http://www.blogexplosion.com — A large directory of blogs.

Blog Flux: http://www.blogflux.com — Includes a blog directory, button making tools, comment tracking, forums, polls, and more.

Bloggapedia: http://www.bloggapedia.com — Features top-rated and recently listed blogs, but also includes a blog search directory, blogging news and forums, tools, and resources.

Bloggeries: http://www.bloggeries.com — Features a blog directory, forum, reviews, tutorials, and more. Lots of categories and subcategories for searching blogs.

Bloggernity: http://www.bloggernity.com — A directory featuring blogs by categories such as art, books, business, cultural, diet & fitness, education, entertainment, environmental, religious, health, hobby, humor, jobs, news, online dating, science, shopping, sports, technology, teen, travel, writers, and personal blogs. Features 300 to 8,000 blogs in each category.

Blogging Fusion: http://www.bloggingfusion.com — This new blog directory offers sixty categories, including photo blogs and family blogs. Includes a creative writing category. Also includes ratings.

Blog Hub: http://www.bloghub.com — Offers a drop down category and member blog list. Includes hot topic and new blogger lists.

Bloglines: http://beta.bloglines.com/topfeeds — Features the top 1000 blogs, with RSS feeds.

BlogListing: http://www.bloglisting.net — Features lots of categories as well as the page ranks of blogs so you create relationships with the most-visited blogs.

Blogmad: http://www.blogmad.net — A blog exchange site.

Blog Pulse: http://www.blogpulse.com — A service of Nielsen BuzzMetrics. It search the most recent blog entries for any topic you want to follow.

Blog Rankings: http://www.blogrankings.com

Blog Reach: http://www.blogreach.com — A blog syndication network. Every time the free BlogReach widget is shown on your blog, you earn an impression credit on the BlogReach network. Your latest blog headline is then shown on someone else's BlogReach widget in the same interest category as your site. This innovative network method of promotion enables you to reach a wider audience.

Blog Rush: http://www.blogrush.com — A blog syndication network. Add a free widget and your blog will be automatically promoted on related blogs around the world.

Blog Search Engine: http://www.blogsearchengine.com — Powered by Ice Rocket, this is a selective blog directory.

Blog Soldiers: http://www.blogsoldiers.com — A blog exchange site.

Blog Universe: http://www.bloguniverse.com — Features video and podcast blogs.

Blogs for Small Business: http://blogsforsmallbusiness.com/directory. A directory of small business blogs.

British Blogs: http://www.britblog.com — Must be genuinely Britished, i.e., culturally British.

DayPop: http://www.daypop.com — A blog search engine.

Eaton Web Blog Directory: http://portal.eatonweb.com — Offers a blog rating system.

enQuira: http://www.enquira.org — A new directory with 72 categories, including books, literature, poetry, and writing.

Fuel My Blog: http://www.fuelmyblog.com — A social network for bloggers.

Globe of Blogs: http://www.globeofblogs.com — Features noncommercial blogs by titles, author, or subject.

Google Blog Search: http://www.google.com/blogsearch — The Google search for blogs.

Ice Rocket: http://www.icerocket.com — Search engine for blogs (by most recent post), MySpace, and more.

India Blog Directory: http://www.indiblogger.in — A directory of blogs from India.

Izearanks: http://www.izearanks.com — Uses real data to calculate which blogs are getting the most traffic and have the most influence on the web.

The Officials: http://www.the-officials.com — A directory of websites as well as blogs.

Pijoo: http://www.pijoo.com — Newer blog directory.

Sphere: http://www.sphere.com — Motto: Connecting blogs and news. You can narrow your search to the last 24 hours or seven days.

SpillBean: http://www.spillbean.com — A new blog directory with the following categories: entertainment, business, computers, daily living, games, health, Internet, news, personal, recreation/sports, regional, and society & culture. Few listings so far, but worth listing your blog here.

Super Blog Directory: http://www.superblogdirectory.com — Offers lots of categories. You can search blogs by page rank, hits, or alphabetically. Will not allow you to submit a blog in a category from BlogSpot.com if another blog already exists from that URL.

Technorati: http://www.technorati.com — The most comprehensive directory of blogs and blog posts.

TopRank: http://www.toprankblog.com/rss-blog-directories — This site features a list of the submission urls for RSS and blog directories that you can submit your blog or RSS feed to. Lots more places to submit your blogs and search for others. This is the directory of blog directories (beyond this listing here).

Twingly: http://www.twingly.com — A blog post search engine.

Yahoo! Blog Search: http://dir.yahoo.com/news_and_media/blogs

Zimbio: http://www.zimbio.com — Offers a blog directory, wikizines, and user-submitted articles.

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Blogging Information Sites

About.com's Guide to Blogs: http://weblogs.about.com

Mint: http://www.haveamint.com — Mint is an extensible, self-hosted website analytics program that allows you to track visits, referrers, popular pages, and searches. Cost: $30 one-time registration fee.

Start Blogging Online: http://www.startbloggingonline.com — Good tips on getting started with a WordPress blog.

Performancing: http://pmetrics.performancing.com — pMetrics gives you unprecedented detail on every visitor to your website. You can try it out via a free demo.

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