What are the biggest blogs in your topic area? Not sure? Here’s how to find out:

1. Go to Technorati.com and enter your main keyword phrase. You’ll get a list of blog posts about your topic.
2. Then go to Google.com and enter your phrase with +blog attached.

You’ll start to get a feel for what blogs are the important ones in your area of expertise.

Then what?

• Add them to your reader so you can follow their posts.
• If they are really good, you may want to add them to your blogroll.
• You can always trackback to their posts.
• For the really advanced bloggers like you, you can find more even more blogs that link to them and expand your empire in the same way.

Let me give you an example. I want to find some of the best blogs about blogging so I went to Technorati and got 1,299,219 blog posts and 23,539 blogs.  Yikes!  Now the tricky part is trying to determine which of these are the most relevant and important.  There are two numbers you can look at on Technorati:  the number of fans and the authority.  Several of the top blogs are listed in my blogroll.

Another thing you can look at is the Technorati list of top blogs and commenting when their posts are relevant to your topic. This is an easy way to get traffic to your blog since Technorati is such a good blog search engine!

P.S.  Make the blogosphere even better by adding your favorite blogs and posts to Technorati (we use the green button on the right hand sidebar that says, Add this Blog to My Technorati Favorites-thanks)!

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