Way of the Mind

Introduction

Planet Atheism is an aggregator of atheism-related blogs. You can visit it here: Planet Atheism.

Personally, I find that it makes for great breakfast reading: by opening a single page in the browser, I can “read the news”, so to speak, from a number of very nice atheist blogs. If I want to comment on a post, I just click on the link and go to the post on the blog itself. Of course, that’s just me; there are, surely, many other ways to use it.

Have an atheist-related blog, where at least half the posts are about atheism, religion and related subjects? With a full (that is, not just small excerpts) RSS feed, if possible (though that’s not a condition)? Why not join?

Joining Planet Atheism

Simply email join@planetatheism.com with your blog’s details.

A link to Planet Atheism on your blog is also appreciated, though not mandatory.

What do you gain

Basically, more visibility for your blog. Planet Atheism is still relatively new, but I expect it to keep on growing both in number of member blogs and in readership, and any regular reader of PA will see your posts among those of the other members. If they want to comment, they just click on the link for your post, and will be taken to your blog, where they can do so. Anyone who’s interested in atheism can use Planet Atheism as a “hub”, and then go to any post he or she finds interesting to comment on it.

You also gain a page linking to your blog, which helps it in terms of search engine optimization.

Finally, I expect that other members of Planet Atheism will, themselves, read PA often, and they are likely to link to posts of yours that they find interesting. In other words, you get other atheist bloggers as regular readers.

Caveats

Anyone who reads your blog through Planet Atheism, of course, won’t see any advertisements you have on your blog (they will do so when they go there to post or read comments), though. This should not have an effect on any earnings you have, since your current readers won’t probably change their habits and will visit your blog directly. Besides, with the search engine optimization advantage I mentioned above, you should get more direct visitors from Google and other search engines.