Making Connections One Blogger At A Time
September 22, 2007
The easiest way to build a loyal readerbase for your blog is to get out there and start making connections within the community. The Blog-o-Sphere is just that, a community. Just like a real world community, members don’t like neighbors that are bums. Being a bum in the blog community consists of the “me first” bloggers, and nobody cares much for them.
In order to be in it for the long haul, you are really going to have to make a conscious effort to please those around you. The blogging purists are going to tell you that it doesn’t matter, just write for you and others will follow. This is definitely an old-school train of thought. With over 100 million blogs out there, if you write this way, and run your blog in the “me first” manner, what keeps them from ditching your blog from their daily RSS reads as soon as they find another blog similar to yours? “There isn’t a blog similar to mine”… Uh huh, if you believe that, I’d like to sell you these magic beans. Email me, I’ll give you a great deal.
A few easy ways to start building relationships
- Comment on other blogs in your niche. There isn’t a single easier method to build targeted traffic than this dandy.
- Email a blogger just to tell them how much you enjoyed their blog. This goes a long way in feeding an ego. The fastest way to a man’s heart might be their stomach, but the fastest way to a bloggers heart is definitely through their ego!
- Link to other blogs. This might just be the easiest way to gain a reader. When you link to a blog, the other blogger is almost guaranteed to come check it out. As a blogger, we are always curious to read anything with our name in it.
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