Blogpulse.com Profile

What is Blogpulse.com? BlogPulse is a blog search engine that does more. It tracks trends and conversations online

Class of tool: Blog Search Engine (with teeth)

Other blog search engines: View the definitive list.

From BlogPulse: BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the Internet. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs.

Cost: Free

What makes it different? There are a number of tools that help understand the health of your blog. These same tools help promote your blog. These tools include:

• Trend Search
• Featured Trends
• Conversation Tracker
• BlogPulse Profiles

Popularity: Alexa site ranking: 17,683 (worldwide traffic rank) with 2,802 sites linking in.

Ease of use: Easy to an extreme. Submit your url. That’s it. Then search as if using Google.

Time to setup: One minute, maybe less.

Time to maintain: None.

What you need to know: The have sets of tools that fit for bloggers, Web surfers and journalists.

Bottom line: Make sure you are listed, and take some time to use their trend search feature. It will help you find whats being written about you, your company and your industry. It’s a powerful and useful tool.