How many blogs do you read a day?

[woodwoman]

How many other blogs (besides your own) do you visit/read/post to a day?
How important is it to read and contribute to other blogs?

[Chrisg]

I think it is important to comment (usefully) on blogs and related sites all the time. Helps with traffic and marketing your site. Personally I regularly read 3 or 4 blogs and 3 or 4 forums per day.

[rypher21]

i read 3-5 blogs..looking for updates

[SamanthaF]

Just mine..... I write in mine everyday. When I come across a blog that has been updated I read it. I enjoy them too. I love to see what others are doing.

[QuirkyMomma]

haha! I made the goal of reading and commenting in at least 20 blogs in my niche each day. I probably reach my goal 4 times a week. Some days I'll read 30. I try to rotate the ones I visit and return frequently to blogs that are dofollow - I love the link love!

[Chrisg]

Jeeez, that's a lot of blogs to read or do you just visit them?

[QuirkyJessi]

I'm subscribed to several hundred different blogs, but they're not just for things related to my own site. I read content that I enjoy, find useful, etc, and if I choose to comment, then hey, that's great, but I'm not just doing it because it might lead to traffic to my own place.

~Edit~ I just checked and I'm currently subscribed to right at 600 sites. I don't read them all every single day, of course. Some only post a couple times a week. Others are ones that I really only skim because they post dozens a day. I read *a lot* of what comes into my reader, though, and I'm always following links, finding new sites to fall in love with, etc.

[Mac100x]

I enjoy reading many types of blogs actually before making my blog I had read many other blogs which inspired me to make mine.

[woodwoman]

There are talking head, industry sponsored and news blogs and then there are blogs written by individuals. Do you count them as different? Is one better than another. I'm looking for news/domestic policy blogs written by a regular person, not a talking head. The ones I've found are not very current. What am I missing? I'm usually pretty good with google but I've crapped out at this.

QM, what's link love?

[ChickenFreak]

My blog bookmark folders contain roughly fifty perfume blogs, forty gardening blogs, forty writing blogs, and forty assorted blogs on other topics. In some I read all the posts, in others I just glance at the titles and read an occasional post. I probably load each blog to read or glance at least twice a week. And, yes, I do read fast.