Just building a good looking blog and writing thousand of quality post can not make you popular as Darren Rowse
and John Chow. Even they don't have got this popularity if they don't have created better relationship with another bloggers.Developing a better relationship is important for promoting your blog and getting lots of backlinks from them but not only this, it also give you the power to make your own and unique standing in the world of blogging.
So how do you going to do this ? I am going to tell you how !
- Prove Yourself First: If you’re brand new blogger it can take time to make an impression on others. Prove yourself that you are here for long time because it is very frustrating for everyone that someone from network, disappears after couple of weeks or months.To make sure you this will not happen to be perfect in your niche.
- Work with Bloggers on Your ‘Level’: Always work with bloggers which are on the same level on which you are. Find bloggers with similar blogging interest, Alexa rank, Google page rank, and the term of his blogging as yours so they are going to accept your relationship request more easily and quickly. Because just after starting blog if you think you can ask Darren Rowse and John Chow to add you in their blogroll this isn't possible.
- Ask Questions & Give answers: Ask a lot of questions to your friend bloggers and give answers to there questions because by this way you can start interacting with other bloggers and can form a continuous and sticky relation with them. Ask them about their goal,dreams,objectives and also share yours. By doing this you can know about their strength and weakness and sometime also about why they are successful.
- Never Spread Yourself too Thin: It is very important that you should not express your-self as very weak and helpless blogger it will only going to decrease interest in you. I will recommend to show your-self best to your personality and niche it will greatly increase your visitors interest in you and your blog.
- Persist But Don’t Annoy: As you know good relationship alway takes a lot of time. So contact with bloggers via emails, social networking or by commenting on their personal, some bloggers will take a few emails or conversations before they’ll warm up to you. and after your relationship started let it grow naturally. You should understand that there is lot of noise around the blogosphere so don’t be offended if people don’t respond – try again in a little while – but don’t disturb them!
- Be Open but Not Transparent: It is most important to not disclose everything about yourself and show yourself transparently show and tell only what is required because if you said something which is not liked by other then it can damage your relation. But this doesn't mean that you put the wool on the others eyes.
- Be Generous and helpful: A lot of the networking that I see going on between bloggers is fairly much about ‘taking’ rather than ‘giving’. One way to make a real impression on another person is to be generous with them. Help THEM to achieve THEIR goals – highlight their best work – encourage them – go out of your way to work on their terms. Do whatever you do but don’t start your interaction with another blogger asking them to link to you, add you to their blogroll or anything like this – start with something that helps them.
- Don’t Expect too much too Quick: The most fruitful relationships that I’ve been a part of in blogging have emerged over time. Let the relationship grow naturally as you build trust and a mutual understanding of who the other person is and how you can work together. It is like real life relationships, if you rush in you could scare the other person off.
- Make Deposits in the Relationship Bank: To get money out of your savings bank account you first need to deposit money in. If all you do is make withdrawals you’ll end up going into overdraft and will hurt your relationship with your bank. The same is true with relationships of all kinds. They need to be give and take but in the early days I think there’s a special need for ‘deposits’. This comes back to the ‘generosity’ tips -well worth repeating as it’s so important in the development of any relationship.
What Do YOU Think?
What part does networking with other bloggers play in your blogging? How do you go about it? What principles would you add to the list above? Which principles that I’ve mentioned apply or don’t apply to you?
Rajnish Kumar