{"id":641,"date":"2015-04-04T20:50:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T18:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lesestunden.de\/?p=641"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:17:45","slug":"buecherblogs-topliste-ein-freudiges-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lesestunden.de\/en\/2015\/04\/buecherblogs-topliste-ein-freudiges-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Blogs Toplist: A Joyful Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>When I created my <a title=\"Buchblogger: Eine Analyse mit Topliste, Visualisierungen und Statistiken\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lesestunden.de\/en\/2015\/03\/buchblogger-eine-analyse-mit-topliste-visualisierungen-und-statistiken\/\">analysis of the book-blogosphere<\/a>, I didn\u2019t expect this overwhelming feedback. It showed me there was a gap to fill, so I decided to continue maintaining and expanding <a title=\"Buchblogger Topliste\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lesestunden.de\/toplist\/\">the toplist<\/a>. This provides a directory of German-language book blogs, which is actually a pretty good thing. In any case, thank you very much for all the responses and for the many missing links you sent.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Alongside several updates to the list and adding numerous book blogs that were missing in the first version, there are a few more changes. I especially want to highlight the first update mentioned here:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Every year on April 23, World Book Day, there\u2019s a lovely initiative: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bloggerschenkenlesefreude.de\/\" title=\"Blogger schenken Lesefreude\">Blogger schenken Lesefreude<\/a><\/strong>. On that day, many blogs give away books and spread pure reading joy. I\u2019m joining in this year as well, and of course you can find plenty of participating book bloggers in the toplist who are also giving away a book. That\u2019s why all blogs taking part in the initiative are now marked with a small logo next to the URL. Hover over the link and you\u2019ll see which book is being raffled. You can view blogs that are participating but aren\u2019t in the toplist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesestunden.de\/toplist\/index.php?nav=wdb\" title=\"Blogger schenken Lesefreude\">here<\/a>. And apologies in advance for shamelessly tapping into the participant list ;)<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>The list now contains <strong>900 blogs<\/strong>. In this update, a whole bunch were added that I found via Blogger schenken Lesefreude.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>Besides the <strong>rank value<\/strong>, you now see its development \u2014 i.e., whether a blog has moved up or down since the last update. Lesestunden is currently slipping quite a bit, so if you have room, feel free to add me to your blogroll ;)<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>In terms of <strong>styling<\/strong>, I\u2019ve now aligned the toplist with the rest of my blog and made it a bit sleeker.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>There\u2019s now a link to <strong>add URLs<\/strong>. If your blog is missing or you know of a book blog that\u2019s not listed yet, just submit it there.<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>If you\u2019re feeling bold, you can subscribe to all blogs in your RSS reader (e.g., feedly). You can easily import the blogs via the <strong>OPML format<\/strong>. You\u2019ll find all 900 blogs in OPML format <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesestunden.de\/toplist\/index.php?nav=opml\" title=\"Topliste als OPML\">here<\/a>. I tried it once as a test, and it\u2019s actually not that bad. Of course you can\u2019t read every post, but skimming works quite well, Twitter-style. My essential book blogs remain in my regular RSS reader, though \u2014 otherwise you lose track, and it becomes just more background noise.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Of course I also noticed the criticism, and I\u2019d like to issue a clear warning at this point not to overvalue the ranking in this toplist. For example, it says nothing about content quality or visit quality. My blog, for instance, isn\u2019t ranked in the top 100, but it gets very \u201chigh-quality\u201d visits \u2014 meaning visitors spend a long time on the site and apparently read the posts closely instead of bouncing immediately. I\u2019m very happy about that, because I much prefer fewer visitors who are genuinely interested, who comment, and who find inspiration here, rather than random clicks from Google Image Search that bounce right away and benefit no one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>So, off to the toplist and click through the Blogger schenken Lesefreude participants: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesestunden.de\/toplist\" title=\"Topliste der deutschen Buchblogger\">Topliste der deutschen Buchblogger<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I created my analysis of the book-blogosphere, I didn\u2019t expect this overwhelming feedback. It showed me there was a gap to fill, so I decided to continue maintaining and expanding the toplist. This provides a directory of German-language book blogs, which is actually a pretty good thing. In any case, thank you very much &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesestunden.de\/en\/2015\/04\/buecherblogs-topliste-ein-freudiges-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Blogs Toplist: A Joyful Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"B\u00fccherblogs Topliste: Ein freudiges Update - lesestunden","description":"Als ich meine Auswertungen zur Buchblogosph\u00e4re erstellt habe, da h\u00e4tte ich nicht mit diesem \u00fcberw\u00e4ltigenden Feedback gerechnet. 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