Blogged.com offers simple way to find blogs

If you're looking for a blog hunt engine, there's Technorati, IceRocket, BlogPulse, Feedster, and many more. So what does Blogged.com bring to the table that these other sites don't? It's easy to use, welcomes user rankings, and just might help you get more traffic. Keep reading to find out more.

Blogged.com first went live in late Feb with more than 200,000 blogs in its database; that's a very respectable number. It divides these blogs up into more than 100 different categories, which should help any eager blog reader find their favourite subject. To guide readers in choosing the right blog, instead than just list everything in a specific category with comparatively little info, it rates blogs on a scale of one to 10 and provides an overview of each blog.

Blog writers will be interested to hear that this quality rating is not based on the blog's traffic. The company has 10 full-time editors which rate blogs based on frequence, design, authorship style, and relevancy to the specific topic. In fact, it's the importance of relevancy that sets Blogged.com apart from other blog hunt engines. For illustration, if you searched for "Clay Aiken" in Google's blog hunt engine, you'd find blog entries that mention the former American Idol icon. If you performed the same hunt with Blogged.com, you'd find stallion blogs whose main focus is on the vocalist (scary as that might sound).

But it's not just Blogged.com's employees who rank the blogs. Visitors can rank them as well. In fact, the site characteristic some interesting social web aspects. Instead than merely searching the site, you can create a "profile dashboard" where you can share info about yourself, put up your reappraisal for all to see, keep track of your friends and your favourite blogs, and communicate with other members of the community through your own mailbox.

"Blogged.com allows people to discover new blogs and provide feedback on the blogs they care about," said Kenneth Yeh, co-founder of Blogged.com. "As the number of blogs increases on the Internet, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish and identify the best blogs. We are excited to offer users a fast, easy way to discover high quality content in the ever evolving blogosphere without spending a lot of effort." So let's take a look at Blogged.com in action.