When writing blog posts, I like to find a couple of relevant links to add to the post. This has the following advantages
- Provides a more useful and detailed article
- Google like external links and can give the page a higher rank (if links are to relatively authorative sites)
- Linking to other bloggers is an excellent way to contact other bloggers. If you link to someone they are likely to think kindly towards your blog. They may stumble your blogpost, leave a comment or even subscribe.
Therefore it is worth trying to find good links but I found Google search was not particularly good. Often the links in a google search are outdated or not blogs. I have also been experimenting with Google blog search but have been dissappointed. There seems to be a lot of spam blogs and unrelated content.
Stumbleupon Search
As an alternative to Google search, I highly recommend stumbleupon search. For my last article on Is it worth getting on Digg?, I used the stumble search facility and it quickly gave some excellent articles. These were both by bloggers and were also very recent.
To Use Stumble Search. Go to Tools, Addons and Stumbleupon Tool bar Options
On the configuration page , you can check a box Show search. (There are also options to see stumbles on regular google searches)
Delicious Search
As another alternative to Google, I also recommend delicious search
The Future of Search Engines
The fact that social bookmarking sites are giving better quality results than Google (at least for certain niche searches) raises some interesting questions and maybe this is something Google need to do more of - incorporate user rated content into search results
Useful Links
How To Use stumbleupon like a pro
Stumbleupon will love us even when Google doesn’t
Building your blog with stumbleupon
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Hi, very interesting read. I was particularly interested in Stumbleupon; will give it a try.
Thanks,
Matthew.
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