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Do you tend to visit the same blogs each week but also try to look for new blogs?
I'm a creature of habit so I do tend to visit the same blogs on a regular basis. However, that doesn't mean that I don't visit new blogs. I just don't actively hunt out new blogs. I tend to find new blogs by bookish osmosis. I see a comment on another blog that I'm commenting on and I go visit them to see what their blogs about. I take part in bookish tags & memes and try to visit the participants thus finding new blogs to visit regularly... When people comment on my posts, I return comments and this also leads me to new blogs.
My problem with keeping up with blogs I like is finding an easy way to remember them all!
Some, I visit so often I can type the first few letters into my browser and they pop up. Others I have to google their blog or find their link from a past link-up or go to a list of hyperlinks I keep, and this is time-consuming and annoying.
I'm time-poor. I like quick and efficient!
I need a way to manage things! I've tried bloglovin' and while pretty good, I still end up lost.
How do you find and manage blogs to visit?
Let me know in the comments!
I add everyone to bloglovin and check the list of latest posts every day. I comment on what I can-y'know, where I have something semi productive to say!. I've stopped looking for new blogs to follow. I'd find a new pile, comment on them several times a week or more for a month or six weeks and get no response from the blogger. I figure then I'm wasting my time and unfollow! It's different if I follow a blogger who is offline for a bit sick or busy moving house, exams, family issues etc-I'll stick with them but not a new blogger who never bothers to visit back. I've had too much of that over the last few months so I'm not going looking now. If a new person comments on my blog, I may follow them though!
ReplyDeleteI get where you're coming from Chuckles! It's really disappointing when you try to connect with new blog and you're ignored. :/
DeleteI have all the different blogs I visit saved in a favorites folder on my bookmarks bar. That way I can just click on each of them and go to their blogs. I actually just wrote about this on Twitter a couple of days ago. I visited 20 new blogs over the past 3 months and only 3 of them ever returned the favor and came to mine, so those three are the only ones that I will continue to go to. I do seek out new blogs from time to time but some I don't keep going back to.
ReplyDeleteThat's so disappointing, isn't it? 20 blogs and only 3 returned the visit?
DeleteI like the bookmarks idea though... I may try that. :)
I keep all my favorite blogs on Feedly. It's great for organizing the posts and saving more for later too. I think I have over 200 on my list, but I am always looking for new blogs to visit. Especially as some bloggers "retire". I try to hop an hour a night, and can usually catch up with all the posts I want to read on the weekend.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of Feedly, I'll check it out!
DeleteI'm really hoping to get into a regular rhythm - like one hour a night - to help me keep on top of things... Maybe a new year blogging resolution!
There are a few blogs that I visit pretty regularly, but mostly I try to make time once a week to visit all of the blogs I follow! If there's any extra time, I try to find new blogs that I might enjoy reading. I wish I could make time every day, but most days I'm lucky just to get a post up! :)
ReplyDeleteLindsi @ Do You Dog-ear?
Sometimes I use Bloglovin', but I also revisit the blogs that have left comments on my own. I tend to remember most of them from memory!
DeleteI wish I had that kind of memory! I rely on my browser history so much, lol.
DeleteI visit my favorite blogs and try to find new ones.
ReplyDeleteYou never know what someone might be chatting about and find a treasure. :)
Thanks for sharing, and I hope your weekend is good.
It's so easy to lose track of all of the blogs. I so get that. Especially if they have similar names. I use Feedly (like Bloglovin) and then change the names to what they use to comment with. Helps me kinda sorta keep everyone straight. lol
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