Aim: Showing you how to search for similar Blogspot blogs to build backlinks and increase incoming traffic to your blog
In this article, I am going to discuss ways of finding other Blogspot blogs by using Blogspot search techniques. This is something I do on a regular basis that allows me to find out what other people are writing about, what I can write about, and also opportunities to build backlinks to my blog and relationships with other like-minded bloggers in my niche. There are many ways to search for other Blogspot blogs in particular, and in this article I'm going to go through some of the less obvious ways of achieving that.
Profile Browsing ~
A great Blogspot search technique I use is profile browsing. As you are probably aware, every Blogspot user has their own profile which they can fill in so other people can get to know them a little better - stuff such as occupation/industry worked in, favorite hobbies and interests, current location etc. Here is how you can search for Blogspot blogs using profile browsing:
1) Say for example I was interested in 'dog training'. I could input this under interests on my profile page so that people can relate to me better - especially if they are interested in 'dog training' also - and know what I do in my spare time. Chances are, if one of my interests is 'dog training', I would have a blog dedicated to just that.
2) When I now view my Blogspot profile, I can see that 'dog training' is there hyper-linked. By clicking the hyper-link, Blogspot takes me to a page that shows me all other Blogspot profiles that are interested in 'dog training'.
3) By clicking on each individual profile, I am able to see the blogs they have made, but also the blogs they are following. Like I said, many of the blogs the person has made or is following will be based on his/her interests. This gives me a massive opportunity to not only gain easy backlinks to a blog (which in turn might increase my blogs search engine ranking and traffic), but gain a friendly relationship with like-minded people that might be the bulk and basis of my most regular readers.
4) The problem with this Blogspot search technique is that sometimes the people your targeting might not necessary be that of your interests or hobbies. By using the URL http://www.blogger.com/profile-find.g?t=i&q=KEYWORD_HERE all you will have to do is replace the KEYWORD_HERE section with an interest your searching for, it's as simple as that.
Search Engine Footprints ~
Another great technique is searching via Google using a search footprint. Here is how this can be done:
1) There are many search footprints, the one I use is “YOUR_KEYWORD” site:blogspot.co.uk where everything bold is typed into the search bar of Google - obviously you would change YOUR_KEYWORD area to your specific needs and also the site URL to .com rather than .co.uk if you wanted.
2) By doing this, your finding all Blogspot blogs that have the specific keyword and URL of your choice.
3) Unfortunately, there are flaws with this technique where it's not going to pick up Blogspot blogs that have a custom domain such as my www.blogspot-seo.com. In the past, I've had great success with this footprint where I've found hundreds of related blogs that actually choose to keep their default Blogspot domain rather than a custom one. With this in mind, I can't see you have any problems finding loads of results using this Blogspot search technique.
Blogspot Comments ~
What I have also found successful is clicking on other people's comments on related Blogspot blogs. Chances are, the reader has linked their blog because of the relation in content, so this gives you another chance to get a quick cheeky comment in.
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