How to find blogs with similar topics?
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How do you find WordPress blogs that are similar to yours? I tried using the search bar on the top right but it either only gives results for my own blog or it says that there are 0 results in the archive… do you guys just web and forum surf?
My answer:
I click on the tags/categories under my posts and it opens a page with all other posts using that same tag.
I also just search using Google, by going to their search blogs section and typing in the topic phrase
I’m back again. I just checked out your blog to see what your topic was.
Okay, the last post I see, is tagged as:
young-adult, romance, realistic fiction, anna and the french kiss, stephanie perkins, france, paris
by clicking on each of these tags I found:
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/young-adult/ (many, many, many blogs listed)
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/romance/ (again, many blogs, several the same as for the last tag)
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/realistic-fiction/ (only a few blogs using this tag)
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/anna-and-the-french-kiss/ (only a few blogs, but more than the last tag)
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/stephanie-perkins/ (about the same as last 2)
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/paris/ (several blogs, but none really relevant to yours)
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/france/ (same as last tag)
Suggested tags for you to add to this post (to generate more readers):
books, book review, YA fiction
From a quick look at your blog, it seems to focus mostly on book reviews, so you should be using the phrase-tag “book review” in almost every post, but I do not see you using it in ANY post at all, and yet all but 3 of your front page posts should have this tag in them.
You do have very topic specific tags, which match well with each book, this is very good (most book review blogs simply add the tag “book review” and NOTHING else!) You want to try to have a mix of common high traffic tags used by a lot of other bloggers (such as “book review”) as well as very niche topic tags, not commonly used by other bloggers (such as “fluid writing”, a phrase you used in your review). This gives you a wider range of readers.
As a general rule it is best to err on the side of “too many” tags rather than “not enough” tags. The more tags you have the more search results your blog will come up in and the more readers you will get. On my own blog, I try to have no less than 10 tags per post and if I can think of that many, it’s not unusual for me to put as many as 30 tags on a single post. The more the merrier when it comes to tags, but just be sure they are on topic for your post.
But anyways, yeah, tag your posts, than click on those tags, and you’ll see who else is using the same topics as you.
Oh, and I tried using the search bar at the top of the page – it appears that it ONLY searches within whatever blog you are viewing when you typed your search terms. I’m not sure if there is some way to change that in the settings or not.
Hope I explained all this okay and hope it helps you out. Good luck with you blogging!
~EK
