Building relationships within the blogsphere is important for any blogger. This network can really be a savor when it comes to information sharing, back-linking, advertising, discovering a blog post for a social network, and making new friends.
It’s ideal to keep your network within your niche as this can leverage your site based on core knowledge about advertising, increasing web traffic, internet tools, etc. Information sharing is why I blog, and I am sure I don’t have to tell anyone how important this is. We share information with other readers and hope to build a fan base.
My blog is mainly about technology. This is a broad category that covers web development, internet tools, computers, internet marketing, etc. My focus is to read blogs based on my niche to expand on my knowledge and to leverage that knowledge to make my blog site a meaningful and successful site.
What is the expectation of the network?
- Build relationships
- Assist with campaigns or contests
- Discover new blog posts with social networks
- Increase back-links
- Share information
I would like to get feedback from other technology based blog sites on how we can really add value to this network and build on it.
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I found that having other technology blogs in my network improve my awareness on the other part of the industry (the I.T world is too vast to cover in one single blog!)
I also love build other non-techie network, as it makes me less geeky and feel aware that there is another life out there than the one revolving around computers
Mike,
I am working on a few parameters that a network can benefit from. The biggest challenge is finding commitment from people who will put in the effort.
I am thinking of maybe 1 day per Month that each person in the network focus on another member to help in stumbles, marketing, comments, etc. If you have 10 blogs in your network that means only 10 days are providing help and the other 20 days you’re focusing on your site. Just a thought.
I totally agree this is a great idea, but sometimes others that are in your “niche” become territorial and do not either want to recip any thing. I’ve run into several people in my niche that are simply just rude, afraid of competition is what I must decided.
That’s a good point and I overlooked it. I think really finding dedicated bloggers is hard. They may follow the network guidelines for a little while, but will drift off eventually.