15 Blogs All Bloggers Should Read

by Franklin Bishop on August 3, 2008

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Here are “15 Blogs All Bloggers Should Read.” A lot of of times bloggers, especially new ones, do not know where to look for help. Well, look no more.


  1. Problogger – http://www.problogger.net/
  2. This blog is written by Darren Rowse. It is the one of the most helpful blogs that can teach you how to blog and make money blogging. He became a blogger in 2002 when he read about this medium. He has around 50,000 subscribers. Most of these subscribers are religious readers and you can see that when looking at how many different people interact by commenting on his posts. “This site is dedicated to helping other bloggers learn the skills of blogging, share their own experiences and promote the blogging medium. I started it in September 2004 mainly because I wanted to keep a record of what I was learning about blogging for money. Since then I’ve added over well over 3500 articles, tips, tutorials and case studies to my archives here.”

  3. Copyblogger – http://www.copyblogger.com/
  4. Copyblogger is also one of the best blogs that helps you with copywriting skills. “Content drives the Internet, and using the right words in the right way will determine not only how well your site converts visitors into sales, but also how well you rank in search engines and how many links you get.” Copyblogger about does it all. It will help you get more subscribers, get traffic, attract links, and sell something. “ Copywriting is the process of writing words that promote a person, business, opinion, or idea, with the ultimate intention of having the reader take some form of action. Even if that action is a link, bookmark, or a vote at Digg that leads to the traffic you need.”

  5. Smashing Magazine – http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
  6. “Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information for designers and web-developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in web-development – clearly, precisely and regularly. We don’t try to convince you with the quantity, but with the quality of the information we present. That’s what makes us different. In fact, we smash you with the information which will make your life easier. Really.” Even though they cover a lot more than just blogging, Smashing Magazine can make your life easier as a blogger altogether.

  7. Entrepenuers Journey – http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/
  8. “Entrepreneurs-Journey.com content is produced by Yaro Starak, a young entrepreneur from Australia. Yaro has created, managed and sold several different Internet businesses since 1998 and currently teaches people how to make a full time income from blogging part time through his Blog Mastermind mentoring program.” This blog is mainly aimed at those interested in Internet business and blogging. There is plenty of information here to help you become a better blogger.

  9. Dosh Dosh – http://www.doshdosh.com/
  10. “Dosh Dosh is a blog offering internet marketing and blogging tips, alongside social media strategies. Best consumed by bloggers, entrepreneurs, web publishers, marketers, freelancers and small business owners. Maki is the writer who’s responsible for all the material you read on this blog.”

  11. Daily Blog Tipshttp://www.dailyblogtips.com/
  12. “Content is surely king, but great content might just get lost on the Internet if not supported by promotion, search engine optimization, efficient web design and the like. With that problem in mind Daily Blog Tips was created, a place where you will find simple yet effective tips to create or improve your blog.”

  13. John Chow dot Com – http://www.johnchow.com/
  14. The tagline for this blog is, “I make money online by telling people how much I make online.” Even though it is said that this blog is about making money online, a lot of it has to do with making money blogging. There is plenty of information here on how to turn your blog into a moneymaking machine.

  15. ShoeMoney – http://www.shoemoney.com/
  16. This blog is good at helping you with Internet marketing skills. If you need ideas of how you can market your blog so that you get more traffic and more subscribers then ShoeMoney is the place to go. This blog is written by Jeremy Shoemaker who is really known for being an an affiliate mastermind.

  17. John Cow – http://www.johncow.com/
  18. This is kind of a ripoff of John Chow, but it does give you a lot of good ideas on how to profit from your blog. He does give you more than just moneymaking ideas by helping you build good content, which is what mainly keeps readers.

  19. Caroline Middlebrook – http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/
  20. Another blog tips blog. Caroline quit her 9-5 job and has blogged ever since.

  21. Balkhis – http://www.balkhis.com/
  22. Balkhis is a blog maintained under the supervision of Syed Balkhi. It shows a vision of success, mainly through blogging.

  23. The University Kid – http://theuniversitykid.com/
  24. This blog is written by Jason Pereira. The blog used to be in the ‘make money online’ niche but he pulled out as he did not feel comfortable considering a lot of the nonsense that goes on there; this is now run as a young entrepreneur blog but also talks about internet marketing, blogging tips and the occasional tip.

  25. Blogging Experiment – http://bloggingexperiment.com/
  26. This blog was bought by Max Davis a good five months ago. It has currently taking a downfall from what it was before when Ben Cook owned it. You can watch someone go through every step while trying to make a full-time income from blogging. Max only posts about once a week so you don’t get as much content as Ben was writing. However, you can still go back in the Archives and read through everything he did when he started his blog and everything he tried afterwards.

  27. The Blog Herald – http://www.blogherald.com/
  28. All things for your blog. You name it, they have it.

  29. Jeff Mills – http://jeffmills.com/
  30. Internet Marketing and affiliate tips. Can really help you have higher conversion rates for your affiliate links.

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JohnCow dot Com August 3, 2008 at 7:53 pm

Thanks for including JohnCow in the list but I do tend to think we are more then a rip off of JohnChow ;)

The original owner started that way but when we took over he only had 1100 subscribers… since then we now have over 6000 and growing.

Great post I subscribe to each of these blogs.

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Jason Pereira August 3, 2008 at 8:35 pm

Thanks for the plug. If only I was Thierry Henry, though… :razz:

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onlinetreason August 3, 2008 at 8:58 pm

haha, sorry Jason.

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Rajaie AlKorani August 3, 2008 at 11:35 pm

Oh no! Where is my blog? :) Kidding, stumbled!

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Garry Conn August 4, 2008 at 12:11 am

Oh yeah… I know that this list is all out of whack… I am not even on it, John COW is ranked 9th… LOL and John Chow is ranked 7th???

What has he shown you lately?

:(

LOL!!!!

Hey… just poking some fun… I do like quite a few on the list, and yes… even good on John Chow, but honestly, he doesn’t show ppl how to make money online.

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Yasser August 4, 2008 at 1:45 am

Nice info. Thanks for sharing.

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Franklin Bishop October 28, 2008 at 11:42 am

No problem. Happy you liked it.

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The Smile Guy August 4, 2008 at 3:01 am

Great list of blogs that make money. I would really like to see a list somewhere of the top 15 ebtertaining or feel good blogs. ;)

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Franklin Bishop October 28, 2008 at 11:43 am

I’m sure someone else has done that somewhere on the Internet.

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James August 4, 2008 at 3:41 am

Pretty good list. Reaching outside of internet marketing and blogging Techcrunch, Gizmodo, Crunchgear, Lifehacker, Readwriteweb, and Engadget are a few more of my favorites.

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Syed Balkhi August 4, 2008 at 3:45 am

I am honored by the mention. Thanks.

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John Sullivan August 4, 2008 at 4:44 am

Hey dude stop sweating them people they don’t care about YOU.Look out for some real bloggers not arrogant so called rich jerks;)
My blog is do follow and maybe you should read it
Thanks cool site

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Rahsheen August 4, 2008 at 6:35 am

Definitely a good list. I was subscribed to most already, but I found a few nuggets.

Although…I can’t say that I’ve seen anything useful on JohnChow at any recent point in time. Just sayin… :)

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IronBlogger August 4, 2008 at 5:06 pm

Very nice list you made here! I read some of these blogs on a regular basis, but there are some that I have never heard of.

Thanks for the tips!

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Colin August 4, 2008 at 5:08 pm

JohnCow is a parody of John Chow, not a rip-off. It’s clearly intentional. There’s a difference.

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Madhav Tripathi August 5, 2008 at 4:37 am

A Few good stuffs at one place, its happening here.

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Hawksdomain August 5, 2008 at 3:27 pm

Ummmm I’m gonna have to say I’m about 50/50 with your list, but you did hit some of my faves so I will say this is a good post! ;)

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Marcus Hamaker August 7, 2008 at 7:12 pm

Good list. I have taken all their RSS feeds and will look at them all. Thanks!

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SocialMind August 7, 2008 at 11:19 pm

Nice list, I have to admit I frequent Shoemoney and John Chow’s blogs alot. Shoe is always good for giving out some sort of tidbit that gets your mind going on a new idea. John.. well.. he’s just evil…

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Mike Panic August 11, 2008 at 8:56 pm

John Chow’s blog is a total waste. It was good about a year ago but has gone totally down hill.

Here are some I follow in my iGoogle:

http://webworkerdaily.com/
http://www.skelliewag.org/
http://mashable.com/
http://webworkerdaily.com/
http://muhammadsaleem.com/
http://www.alistapart.com/

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website design August 14, 2008 at 2:03 pm

nice collection of top notch blogs. I am a regular visitor of some of those.They contain lost of useful information. I like dosh dosh and daily blog tips very much.

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onlinetreason August 14, 2008 at 4:59 pm

I’d love to put a new list together if any of you have any recommendations. I noticed that a lot of you do not care too much about John Chow. I think that he does have really get helpful hints to what you can do to make more money out of your blog if that’s what you are blogging for.

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Matthew August 14, 2008 at 5:38 pm

Surprised to see a few of those blogs in there ;) The list could be better

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swollenpickles August 21, 2008 at 12:34 am

How the hell has this article got 79 diggs?? You should write an article about that.

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onlinetreason August 21, 2008 at 7:11 pm

lol. Maybe I will

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Eric September 13, 2008 at 3:02 pm

What an awesome list, I think I will digg this one and maybe even stumble it. Though, I as I was checking out this list. I could not believe that http://www.techcrunch.com/. Just yesterday at the IZEA Fest 2008 – Big Money Bloggers conference. All the top bloggers said that they visit this one regularly.

Also, Just wondering what ever happened with Ben Cook did his experiment fail, did he give up, or what? Does anyone know?

Thanks again
Eric

Erics last blog post..$200 For Being a Commentator It’s Just That Simple – Keep it SEO Simple

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Franklin Bishop September 14, 2008 at 4:48 pm

Ben sold the site to do other things.

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James September 15, 2008 at 9:06 pm

Got here through your most recent post. Nice list. Definitely found some blogs that are new to me. Although I don’t know how relevant some of these would be to “all” bloggers. Nice mix, though.

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Ryan McLean September 17, 2008 at 11:45 pm

This is a great list and I am going to go ahead and subscribe to every single one of them

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