Chris Sandberg

Utah SEO, Internet Marketer, and Entprepreneur

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 Go to homepage 35 33%

Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim – Internet Marketing Blog & Consultant Go to homepage 26 13%

SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog Go to homepage 19 41%

SEO Book.com Go to homepage 19 32%

Pronet Advertising Go to homepage 18 32%

ProBlogger Blog Tips Go to homepage 17 23%

Chris Knudsen on life, business, and entrepreneurship Go to homepage 9 47%

The Jason Calacanis Weblog Go to homepage 9 20%

Shoemoney – Skills to pay the bills Go to homepage 9 14%

Russell Page Go to homepage 8 40%

Copyblogger Go to homepage 8 38%

Seth’s Blog Go to homepage 8 17%

Smooth Harold | The Blog of Blake Snow Go to homepage 7 37%

NewspaperGrl Go to homepage 7 35%

Graywolf’s SEO Blog Go to homepage 7 25%

Online Marketing Blog Go to homepage 7 18%

Macalua.com Go to homepage 6 43%

Tropical SEO Go to homepage 6 40%

SEO BlackHat: Black Hat SEO Blog Go to homepage 5 83%

Connor’s Conundrums Go to homepage 5 26%

Categories: General - Google - Links
31 May 2007 at 05:33 - Comments
Bill Hartzer
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…
4 June 07 at 15:34
Blake Snow
Very cool! I guess I’ll finally need to switch from Bloglines to Google Reader for the attention stats alone.
28 June 07 at 08:19
Chris Sandberg
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.
28 June 07 at 08:31
 
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