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Most Popular Blog Posts Come from a Short List

According to Nielsen BuzzMetrics, the top 100 blog posts for 2006 came from a relatively short list of blogs. Mother.LiveJournal.Com, Crooks and Liars, Sifry’s Alerts and Michelle Malkin dominated the list with the top spot going to Mother.LiveJournal.com for the “petition against changes in the livejournal interface“. This one post was linked to 801 times in 786 other blogs (make that 802

What does this mean for hopeful bloggers?

While the Internet continues to be an equal opportunity employer, there is some evidence to suggest that the blogosphere is just as “clique-y” as anything else. Simply throwing your blog out there doesn’t necessarily mean it will get noticed and if you really expect it to generate some traffic, it wouldn’t hurt to get a few mentions from an already-popular blogger.

Will public blogging directories even the playing field? Its really too soon to tell but sites like Digg, Technorati and Digital Journal definitely offer some hopeful possibilities for new bloggers just starting out.