Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Poetry Blog Rankings

Today I discovered a new blog directory with a specialized focus that should appeal to a lot of you folks: Poetry Blog Rankings. This site aims to list all the blogs in the world that feature poetry and/or poets, connecting readers and writers of poetry in the process. For readers, the site provides tools for finding new poetry blogs, rating them, and bookmarking your favorites. For writers, the site provides a way to introduce your poetry to new readers and compare your blog's popularity against others.

Membership in Poetry Blog Rankings is free for poetry readers and writers. There is a link for donations, if you wish to support the site; that page also lists their ideas for future expansion and features. Poets may make a $12 donation to earn permanent "Gold Member" status, which offers extra perks. If you practice cyberfunded creativity, this may be useful.

The more members who rate a poetry blog, the more solid its score becomes. (They don't want one or two people skewing the numbers.) It takes a minimum of 6 votes to qualify for the Top 100 Poetry Blogs list. A blog's ranking within the directory thus depends on how members rate it. If you already belong to Poetry Blog Rankings -- or if you decide to join -- please consider rating The Wordsmith's Forge according to your taste. The directory recommends that members read at least three of a writer's poems before ranking that blog; to view my poems available on this blog, click the "poem" tag in the sidebar on the right side of this page.

Poetry Blog Rankings
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minor_architect

minor_architect

January 29 2009, 18:39:49 UTC 12 years ago

Neat directory! I'm not sure I needed another Internet time-sink (considering I'm here and on Twitter and I poke around these webcomics...) but I registered anyway.

And I voted for you! (Just so you know, 9 out of 10 stars means, "I admire this poet's work and it's still improving so the best is yet to come." :)
ysabetwordsmith

Thank you!

ysabetwordsmith

January 29 2009, 19:53:50 UTC 12 years ago

I really appreciate the support. So far, I've had three votes, so I'm halfway to qualification.

I don't need another timesink either, but there's a trick to these things...

1) Rotate sites. Don't try to do all your networking sites every day. Only visit your most productive ones daily. Visit the others occasionally.

2) Don't try to do everything on each site. When you visit, check out 3-6 leads. So on the poetry directory, review a few poets at a time.

3) Concentrate on the biggest networks with the best features (LiveJournal, Blog Catalog, etc.) and on the niche services that target your favorite topics (Poetry Blog Rankings, etc.). That maximizes exposure on one hand and precision on the other.
ysabetwordsmith

Thank you!

ysabetwordsmith

January 29 2009, 21:00:52 UTC 12 years ago

I really appreciate the support. So far, I've had three votes, so I'm halfway to qualification.

I don't need another timesink either, but there's a trick to these things...

1) Rotate sites. Don't try to do all your networking sites every day. Only visit your most productive ones daily. Visit the others occasionally.

2) Don't try to do everything on each site. When you visit, check out 3-6 leads. So on the poetry directory, review a few poets at a time.

3) Concentrate on the biggest networks with the best features (LiveJournal, Blog Catalog, etc.) and on the niche services that target your favorite topics (Poetry Blog Rankings, etc.). That maximizes exposure on one hand and precision on the other.