Blog Marketing Sites

Best Blog Awards—Visit http://blogofthedayawards.blogspot.com and nominate your blog for a chance to win recognition and a link on their site. If you win, your blog’s name and a link will be posted on the homepage. Well written blogs that use entertaining language seem to win most frequently, making this a good place to go when you’re in need of something random and fun.

Blogger’s Choice Awards—This is a “user-generated blog voting site” (www.bloggerschoiceawards.com) that offers an extensive listing of exceptional blogging, organized by topic and sorted by popularity. Nominations are currently being accepted for the 2008 Blogger’s Choice Awards in a slew of unique categories. Additionally, this site has a great navigational layout, making it a useful place to visit while compiling research.

Technorati (http://technorati.com) is a research site that keeps track of and ranks blogs and RSS feeds. The site’s a powerful portal with a few extra tricks up its sleeve. When you research a topic and select a particular Web site listing, Technorati provides the site’s thumbnail, rank, and reactions by bloggers across the Web. This system allows for quick and balanced research of a topic, as multiple sides of a story/argument are available at one time. Your blog may already be listed here, and if it is not, than add it post haste!