Every successful blogger will tell you that it took great content and hard work to reach where he has. A point he will mostly miss to tell you is that of the benefits of building relationships with other bloggers. It is very important that you have good professional relationships with other bloggers. There are many advantages to be gained from good relationship with other bloggers.
Here are some great ways to build relationships with other bloggers:
1. Commenting on Other Blogs
This seems like a basic idea, but it is a good place to start and let the other blogger know about you. If you want this point to be really effective then it is important that your comments add value to the post and are not simple comments like – “Nice Post” etc.
2. Guest Posts
This is another great way to build relationships with other bloggers. Providing great content to other bloggers is a sure-shot way to get them to notice you. Most blogs related to blogging, technology niche allow you to guest post. Another important point is the timing of your guest posts. Suppose if your guest post comes in at a time the blogger is sick or on a vacation then it will mean much more to him and you can create lasting relationships.
3. Link love
You might get really worried when you link out to other blogs competing with you, but don’t think that way. Be open and break free of all insecurities – giving link love to other bloggers is a great way to build relationships. All bloggers know the hard work behind getting backlinks and when you give them link love then it is really appreciated by another blogger. Would you not be happy if some one links to any one of your posts? Think this way and make the most of this point.
4. Interviews
This is a very effective way to build relationship with another blogger. It is very flattering for anyone to get an email that requests them to give an interview. An interview can really help in the branding an image of any blogger. So this point is a cool way to approach and get to know other bloggers. Moreover, interesting interviews can become great content for you and even get you search engine traffic in the long run.
Although, the points above are very effective to create relationship with another blogger, but be careful not to overdo it. Please leave your comments below.
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Hi,
Great points and I agree. Building relationships with other bloggers is just as important as your own blog/web business.
I think you create the most effective relationship by commenting on blogs, as there is a personal touch to commenting directly and communicating directly with them.
Kindest,
Nabeel
Recently I had look on this post which is good guidelines to be popular in the hotel seo market.Through this information we can grow in the present time till the future.
I love doing guest post because you are not only connecting to the host of the blog but also you are building your credibility in your niche and building backlinks to your site.
I also love doing posting in active forums and love to solve the problem of other forum members.
Commenting also is a good way as long as you share valuable comments that would benefit other commentators. On the other side, do the best as you can to be on the top 10 commentator, so that your comment would be noticed. It’s also a good way to make your comment long and useful….
But anyway, thanks for this post. I hope this helps… By the way, would you mind if you can be good friends?
To our success,
-Blogging Access.com
Thanks a lot for commenting. I’m surely want to be your friend. Lets talk on gtalk sometime
@ Anil Thank for way to building relationship with other blogger
Good points Anil. It is always important to build up relationships with your customers and fellow internet marketers. I haven’t actually done interviews before, but something I will thing about doing.
Definitely agree with all of these. If you post their links on your site, you’re likely to receive some link love in return. Guest posts are the same. If you guest post, you sometimes expect reciprocal posts.
hi, “salam kenal”
i m newbie from indonesia, its very useful post, thanks for share it
I think with interviews, like anything else in life, you just have to pull the trigger and practice. The first interviews I did were not spectacular, but through practice I have improved quite a bit.
Great post with lots of Information
Blogs are a great way of getting Traffic to you site, google loves blogs and shows up in there searches.
you get traffic to you blog and you have great content people will come back.
you then can promote products and many money
Click their profile link, track’em down and give’m a call or send’em a hand-written note. High-touch relationships are powerful. Email and blogging are awesome, but still not high-touch.
Anil, you raise some fantastic points on how you can further build relationships with other bloggers, for me, I would definitely agree with commenting and guest blog posting!
Till then,
Jean
I love making connections with bloggers because even if you are in the same niche everyone’s approach and style is different. I can say that every week Financially Digital gets a little better because of a conversation I’ve had with other bloggers.
The things you have mentioned are the most important things and the thing we should add into is just your trust towards your viewer and the business partner.
The things which will help you to alway grow on and can help to to make good amount of link building relationship that can work for ever for your blogs or your website.