What I Read
I love Google Reader’s trends feature, which allows you to see statistics about your reading habits. Here is a list of the top 20 blogs I have been reading over the past 30 days. The numbers are the total amount of posts I read and the percentage of all posts I read.
John Chow dot Com
35 33%
Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim – Internet Marketing Blog & Consultant
26 13%
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog
19 41%
SEO Book.com
19 32%
Pronet Advertising
18 32%
ProBlogger Blog Tips
17 23%
Chris Knudsen on life, business, and entrepreneurship
9 47%
The Jason Calacanis Weblog
9 20%
Shoemoney – Skills to pay the bills
9 14%
Russell Page
8 40%
Copyblogger
8 38%
Seth’s Blog
8 17%
Smooth Harold | The Blog of Blake Snow
7 37%
NewspaperGrl
7 35%
Graywolf’s SEO Blog
7 25%
Online Marketing Blog
7 18%
Macalua.com
6 43%
Tropical SEO
6 40%
SEO BlackHat: Black Hat SEO Blog
5 83%
Connor’s Conundrums
5 26%



Thanks for publishing your list–I read a few of those, but actually have to admit that I haven’t visited all of them (yet). Makes me want to publish my own list…
Very cool! I guess I’ll finally need to switch from Bloglines to Google Reader for the attention stats alone.
That stats were actually one of the main reasons I switched (I was also using Bloglines before). My other main reason for switching was the gmail style headlines, which allows me to easily skim all the new post headlines from all my feeds. I end up just opening and reading the posts that seem the most interesting based on headlines. I wasn’t a big fan of Google Reader when it first launched but they have made a lot of improvements that have caused me to become a fan.
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