How to Find the most popular blog posts

Locating the most popular blog posts can be a harrowing experience. If you simply go to virtually any blog you will see someone touting to be the best at some subject matter. Many others are pushing that they are the most popular. So how are you to find the really popular posts amoungst all of the wannabe posters. A few simple rule should keep you in line to achieve this goal.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Open your favorite web browser.
2. Fire up your favorite search engine. Each search engine will give you a seperate critical list of sites when you perform your searches. It is probably worth it to try different engines if you have them loaded on your PC.
3. Enter the following into the search engine. Technorati del.icio.us Digg Social Bookmarking Communal Tagging Social Tagging
4. The social bookmarking or tagging sites will turn up websites that specialize in rating websites and blog posts.
5. Type in the name of the type of blog that you are looking for in the following format on the social bookmarking search engine. Popular Blog Posts Blog Posts Highest Views Blogging posts Popular
6. Review the posts that the bookmarking sites generated for you. The posts you are looking at will be the most popular on the web currently.

Tips & Warnings

• Popularity can be defined in many different ways. Is the blogging post the most viewed. Is it the most viewed in the last twenty-four hours. Is it the most recommended by your friends. Determining your definition of popular will be critical in how you put in your search terms.
• Be wary of unscrupulous website owners that tout their blogs as popular. Look at independent websites to determine the popularity of a blog.

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