Anyone that surfs the internet can help but notice that blogs are all the rage right now. It seems that EVERYONE has a blog, from stay at home moms to corporate moguls (including this site!). As the number of blogs has increased, so have the number of sites for blog owners and readers. There are tons of social networking sites for blog owners, but not all will make the cut. Aside from the granddaddy of them all Technorati, there are two definite networking camps: MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog.

If you’ve visited a blog lately, odds are that the blog has one (or possibly both) of the recent visitor widgets installed. So it begs the question, which site is better? Personally, I prefer having a mybloglog profile to one on blogcatalog. Looking at the sites themselves, mybloglog seems to have more pages indexed by around 50,000 than my blogcatalog. The main reason I like mybloglog is that they give you a profile without asking anything from you in return. You can upgrade your blog with a few stat programs, viewable through your profile or add the recent viewer’s widget to your site as well. Blogcatalog requires that you link back to the site before you can join the community.

The stated main goal of both sites is to let you connect to other bloggers and increase your readership. I have to say that mybloglog does that very well. It automatically adds you to communities (blogs) that you visit often, tracks your visitors and allows other readers to see what’s popular in the communities you belong to as well. As for blogcatalog, I can’t say as I’m not a member.

If you rely on word of mouth to gain readership, than belonging to both sites may be just the thing to help you increase readership. Now, if I only get Max to be more social!

About the author: Charles Richey is the webmaster for lvrealty.net, a Las Vegas real estate site.