{"id":6007,"date":"2015-10-03T16:19:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T16:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2024-04-30T18:51:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T18:51:25","slug":"how-to-find-top-blogs-in-a-niche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/tips-of-the-week\/how-to-find-top-blogs-in-a-niche\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Top Blogs in a Niche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">Issue #956 Oct. 3, 2015<br \/> Publisher: Joan Stewart<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">&#8220;Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>In This Issue<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>How to Find Top Blogs in a Niche<\/li>\n<li>Press Release for Fiction Books<\/li>\n<li>More Tips for Online Courses<\/li>\n<li>Hound Video of the Week<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>This Weekend in the Hound House:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The garden gets a good cleaning today and tomorrow. I&#8217;ll be ripping out Creeping Charlie, an invasive groundcover and picking one of last bouquets of the year for the kitchen table.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>1. How to Find Top Blogs in a Niche<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6008\" src=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/Pawsome-Dog-Blog.jpg\" alt=\"Pawsome Dog Blog\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can buy expensive software programs to find the top blogs you want to write for or pitch. Or do what I do. Use Google, the most powerful search tool on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>During a &#8220;Rent My Brain&#8221; session yesterday with client <strong>Mary Debono,<\/strong> author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grow-Young-Your-Dog-Companion-ebook\/dp\/B00PHAEN56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Grow Young with Your Dog,&#8221;<\/a> I showed her how to find top blogs in her niche.<\/p>\n<p>I Googled &#8220;best dog bloggers&#8221; and &#8220;top dog bloggers&#8221; and hit gold with Alfie&#8217;s Blog, a list of 26 blogs and website. Several are for specific types of dogs, but that&#8217;s OK. They have loyal audiences, and many were perfect for Mary. <\/p>\n<p>Before you pitch, read the blog so you&#8217;re familiar with topics the bloggers covers. In your pitch, mention a topic or a specific post that caught your eye. This will let bloggers know you&#8217;re familiar with their work.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about how to <a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/need-immediate-one-on-one-help-rent-my-brain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rent My Brain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Press Releases for Fiction Books<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6009\" src=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/book-murder-mystery-novel2-bs.jpg\" alt=\"A Novel Dangerous\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to writing press releases for a book, fiction writers struggle the most.<\/p>\n<p>Press release write <strong>Paul J. Krupin<\/strong> recommends that you start by studying the publicity that other fiction authors have received. He created his own research formula and he calls it the &#8220;3 I Technique.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the success story.<\/li>\n<li>Imitate the success stories.<\/li>\n<li>Innovate with your own information. \u00a0\n<p>&#8220;So start paying attention to what is out there,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Head to the magazine rack. Open up the magazines you want to be in and identify the feature articles about fiction authors. Cut them out and create a scrap book. Then use these for ideas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s an excerpt from his article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.directcontactpr.com\/free-articles\/article.src?ID=39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Writing News Releases for Fiction Book.&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(A news release is the same as a press release.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>3. More Tips for Online Courses<\/h3>\n<p>Earlier this week, I explained the <a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/5-mistakes-teaching-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;5 mistakes I\u2019ve been making when teaching online&#8221;. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll learn many more, but from the eight entrepreneurs from noon to 8 p.m. Eastern Time today, Oct. 3. That\u2019s when <strong>Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing<\/strong> presents a live webcast to promote Course Builders Laboratory, his training on how to teach big courses online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/go\/livecast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register for the free webcast here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of the entrepreneurs are in different niches. All build and deliver excellent online training.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll talk about the embarrassing mistakes they made and share tactic and strategies they&#8217;ve used that you can use too if you dive into the profitable world of teaching online.<\/p>\n<h3>4. Hound Video of the Week<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6010\" src=\"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/Denver-Official-Guilty-Dog-Video-www.jpg\" alt=\"Denver-Official-Guilty-Dog-Video-www\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While Dad was out, someone got into the cat treats. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/B8ISzf2pryI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Could it possibly be Denver?<\/a><\/p>\n[Tweet &#8220;#PublicityTips from @PublicityHound&#8211;How to Find Top Blogs in a Niche #topbloggers&#8221;]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h2>The Publicity Hound&#8217;s Tips of the Week<\/h2>\n<h3>&#8211; Issue #956 Oct. 3, 2015<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>How to Find Top Blogs in a Niche<\/li>\n<li>Press Release for Fiction Books<\/li>\n<li>More Tips for Online Courses<\/li>\n<li>Hound Video of the Week<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/tips-of-the-week\/how-to-find-top-blogs-in-a-niche\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"rmlink\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":6,"wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2,43,3,240,352,580,13],"class_list":{"0":"post-6007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tips-of-the-week","8":"tag-blogging","9":"tag-book-marketing","10":"tag-book-promotion","11":"tag-book-publishing","12":"tag-business-blogging","13":"tag-canonical-url","14":"tag-press-releases","15":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}