Blogs (or weblogs) have been a major success on the web, look at the impact ‘celebrity bloggers’ have had and the readership levels they boast. But blogs are not just home to people talking about celebs, cooking and cars.
There are thousands of blogs on the topic of small business, whether it’s; ecommerce, general webmastering, marketing, SEO, affiliation, entrepreneurship, dropshipping (like this one!) or simply how to be a successful blogger yourself they are all covered.
Blogs are now an integral part of the web and it is wise you take advantage of them.
How To Find Good Ones To Read
Google is your friend. The obvious way is to search for them, simply looking for “SEO blog” returns pages of blogs. You will also find that once you naturally end up on one blog you will stumble across others, the blogosphere is heavily linked so it is easy to cover a lot of ground finding new resources in relatively little time. You can also try; technorati, stumbleupon and other social media sites. Your general travels across the web should also lead you to blogs, such as forum signatures etc.
Don’t Read Any Old Content You Find
You don’t want to end up reading bad advice, or outdated information. Or have someone giving you advice who hasn’t even achieved anything themselves. So look for an ‘about’ page or find out more about the blogger before subscribing or believing what they say. Also check dates on articles as the information may not longer be valid if the post was written years ago.
Don’t Over Do It
Don’t fall into the trap some webmasters do of just spending hours on end reading blogs (I’ve done this somewhat before myself), it happens without you even realising. You want to learn from the bloggers, and then put it into practice. Only read what you need to and what will help you.
2 Comments Posted
Blogs are truly a platform to acquire knowledge whether about Ecommerce or entrepreneurship. But as far as the old content concerns I don’t agree with you. What if one finds useful information whether outdated in old posts/content. So I would rather like to explore a blog and find the relevant information either it’s old or outdated for more exposure.
William, if information is outdated then how is it useful? If it is no longer valid it is useless and will not help but could harm your business! For example; if you read a marketing blog and it starts telling you to join banner exchanges and web rings that was useful in the 90’s, not now. Why you would want to go around reading outdated info is beyond me.
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