Last week I was sent an email announcing that my blog on my other site www.thebodyworker.com had just been put on a list of the top 50 blogs in the massage profession and they wanted be to put a banner on my site saying so. To me that is just spammy really. Giving an award to a site just so that they will put a banner on their site with a link to that site when the site is not looking like a quality site just hits me the wrong way. The other thing is that there wasn’t much info on the site really and there also wasn’t any info about who the creator or authors were. They were also missing most of the blogs that I think are worth while in the massage profession. I sent an email back asking and got a reply from a guy who said he was the owner of the blog and that there were a few freelance writers some who were massage therapists and some who were not who were going to be writers for the blog.
To me what makes for a good blog is first off you can find it easily! Most are actually not found easily. The second thing is that it is updated regularly – like once or more a week or better yet every day. The content of the blog is also important. I hate hearing about what people had for dinner and other use less information. It has to be informative and worth my time.
Some of the most important blogs to follow are:
Laura Allens – Massagepundit.com at Massage Magazine and her own personal blog www.lauraallenlmt.com
Felica Browns -www.spalutions.com blog about massage and spa business.
The Massage Body of Knowledge blog – a must read to keep up to date with what is going on in the creation of the BOK for the massage profession.
and of course mine here at www.thebodyworker.com and my new one at www.massagepracticebuilder.com