I'm not sure exactly how it works, but there is a website, The Truth Laid Bear, that does a pretty good job of ranking the top 5,000 blogs in terms of the number of daily "hits" and in terms of the number of websites that link to them.
Here are, more or less, the top Catholic blogs in that list of 5,000.
| Daily | 1 - 5000 | |||
| Traffic | Position | |||
| "Father Z" | W.D.T.P.R.S? | 5464 | 496 | |
| Happy Catholic | ||||
| Anchoress | 3724 | 642 | ||
| Jimmy Akin | jimmyakin.org | |||
| Amy Welborn | Open Book | |||
| Stop the ACLU | 3553 | 662 | ||
| Gerald | Cafeteria is Closed | 3372 | 695 | |
| ProLife Blogs | 3298 | 704 | ||
| Group | Rorate Coeli | 2473 | 859 | |
| Jeff Miller | Curt Jester | 1983 | 993 | |
| Mark Shea | Catholic and Enjoying It | 1967 | 999 | |
| Relapsed Catholic | 1567 | 1169 | ||
| Dawn Eden | Dawn Patrol | 1378 | 1250 | |
| Roman Catholic by Choice | 901 | 1740 | ||
| Terry | Abbey Roads2 | 901 | 1741 | |
| Thomas Peters | American Papist | 801 | 1884 | |
| Notre Dame | Shrine of the Holy Whapping | 776 | 1942 | |
| Extreme Catholic | 666 | 2203 | ||
| Greg Kandra | The Deacon's Bench | 655 | 2247 | |
| Dom Bettinelli | Bett.net | 632 | 2308 | |
| Musica Sacra | 438 | 3027 | ||
| Acton Institute Power Blog | 364 | 3479 | ||
| Kansas City Catholic | 351 | 3556 | ||
| Fr. Fox | Bonfire of the Vanities | 334 | 3694 | |
| Te Deum Laudamus | 306 | 3934 | ||
| Against the Grain | 280 | 4186 | ||
| Lair of the Catholic Caveman | 278 | 4217 | ||
| Fr. Stephanos | Me Monk; Me Meander | 276 | 4233 | |
| Dominicans | Moniales, OP | 272 | 4282 | |
| Family | Holy Family School (Okla) | 272 | 4286 | |
| Fr. Stephanos | One Monk of the O.S.B. | 264 | 4375 | |
| Fr. Stephanos | Monastery | 264 | 4383 | |
| Catholici Sumus | 264 | 4384 | ||
| My Catholic Links | 264 | 4385 | ||
| Fr. Stephanos | A History of One Monk | 264 | 4386 | |
| Ironic Catholic | 142 | 4764 | ||
| Two Priests | Catholic Fire | 219 | 4925 | |
| Two Priests | Catholic Ragemonkey | 215 | 4977 |
5 comments:
And Terry always claims no one is reading his blog! Ha!
I can just imagine what Sally Fields would say...
I didn't know Valeri Bertinelli had a blog? Why would she use the title Dom?
How does a Catholic blogger get his blog some visibility?
Neil:
$64,000 question!
First thing you want to do is register with the St Blog's Parish site which publishes your name and some folks visit there to check out new blogs.
I don't visit it much any more. But I should.
http://groups.blogdigger.com/groups.jsp?id=2040
Check out all the blogs there, visit the ones similar to yours and promote yourself there (within reason; just invite people to visit you).
Second, tell your Mom and all your friends and relatives
Third, send copies of your posts of interest to people to whom they apply.
Fourth, Make links to blogs that you like in your sidebar and visit a dozen or so daily and comment regularly (if you have something to say, that is). Ask other bloggers to reciprocate and add you to their sidebar blogroll. They may or may not. Many bloggers are very busy.
Fifth, Get Sitemeter or some other counter so you can keep track of visitors. Don't get over ambitious. Growth will be slow unless you have a subject upon which nobody else is blogging and it becomes known and popular. But most blogs get way less than 100 hits per day.
People who visit blogs are already fully occupied so you have to give them a reason to add one more to their daily "route."
People like Terry, Adoro and Cathy who blog about their personal experiences seem to get more hits than geeks like me who blog about the news.
Lots of people like to read about others' experiences and share their own. I don't share much on Stella, but I do in others' comments sections.
Sixth, make sure that your blog is set up so that Google, BlogSearch and the other search engines can find you. After a week or so, occasionally search on a unique topic upon which you have posted and see if you show up in the results. Unless you are the only one who has posted on the subject, you won't show up very high in the results.
Make sure you have lots of links in your sidebar. I think that is one of the ways that Google uses to determine if you are a blog worth looking at. But the real system is very secret.
Good luck, Neil!
And don't forget to post with me when you set your blog up. And if you are from Minnesota or vicinity, I will definitely make a link to you.
Ray
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