What Is Networking?

Networking is a way of promoting your blog by building relationships with people within the blogging community. This can be achieved in a number of different ways:

Commenting On Other Blogs

Commenting on other peoples blogs is a brilliant way to promote your blog.  Not only will you get a link back to your blog (although most blogs have a nofollow HTML attribute on their comments), but by providing interesting and helpful comments people will become interested in you and will visit your blog.  However, do not comment spam.  If you do not have a useful comment to make, do not make one.

Answering Comments Left On Your Blog

This is a good way to interact with your blogs readers and to make them like you.  By making your comments back to them helpful and friendly, you can create a positive image of yourself and make people like you.  If people like you, they are more likely to return to your blog.

Emailing

Emailing other bloggers can be a good way of exchanging links to build your blogs Page Rank and to build relationships with other bloggers.  However, you should try not annoy the bloggers that you email and you should only exchange links with blogs that are related to your blogs niche.

Joining Communities

One of the best ways to promote your blog is joining communities like those in BlogCatalog.  Here you can join groups, create discussions and generally get your name out there.  If you do it right, it can be a good way to increase your blogs traffic.

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