This is a guest post by Anil Gupta from ScopeForMoney.com.
These days a blog’s popularity is a lot like a person’s personal life. The more social you are the higher popularity your blog will gain. Blogging is no longer as easy simply putting up a post and switching off the computer “hoping” for a wave of traffic.
Visitors will only come and comment if they like your blog popularity. Every one likes being associated to popular people. Similarly, in the blogosphere all bloggers want to be associated and be linked from a popular blog that everyone knows about.
Here are some ways to know how social your blog is. Because the popularity of you blog will depend on it…
How Many Top Commenters Lists Are You On?
Whether you comment on other blogs out of interest or because you want the dofollow link juice, whatever may be the reason, try to get on as many top commenter’s list as possible. The reason is that if a blog has a top commenter’s list then it is always checked out by the other visitors. It really helps people in knowing your brand. Apart from the recognition you will also get residual traffic and SEO benefits as all top commenter’s widgets are dofollow.
How Many Guest Posts Have You Done?
It is very important to leave a foot print of your blog on other more popular blogs. It is because they have a huge readers and subscribers base. A guest post is always given special attention by readers because they know it will be different from the general pattern of the original posts. Also when readers comment on your guest post, you get an opportunity to interact with them. This helps you socialize much more deeply.
Do You Reply To Your Visitor Comments?
A social blog is a very active one! All reader comments are replied back. The blogger provides satisfactory answers to all the questions which are asked. Then the most important part of commenting, the blogger heads over to the commenter’s blog and makes a comment on his blog. This way you are ensuring that you get that visitor to visit you again and also make a good impression about your blog.
Re-Tweet Other Blogger’s Articles
This is another sign of a very social blog. It is really appreciated by many bloggers when you retweet their posts to your followers. So the best advice will be keep on sharing and retweeting interesting stuff from other blogs in your niche with your followers and Fans on Twitter and Facebook.
Conclusion
Being social helps a blog a lot. I would suggest using the above tips to make your blog even more popular and social. So get on to other blogs commentators list, write guest posts on other blogs, retweet and share posts from your favorite blogs and don’t forget to reply to comments coming on your blog. How social you and your blog is, share in the comments section below.
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Yeah, to make our blog more social is a good way to attract more visitors and readers.
I will do that following your tips here. Thank you very much!
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I do all of the above except that I’m yet to write guest posts on other blogs. Does that make me less social?
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Nice post, responding to comments usually make the conversation going the more, even you can take another step further by leaving a comment on their blog to further develop the relationship.
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Great article, and some very solid advice. I’d have mentioned making it easy for people to promote your blog using social media, as you’re currently doing with the parade of buttons below your post.
I suppose showing rather than telling is the order of the day!
Being social has really helped me. I made lots of efforts in this direction in the last three to four months time like writing lots of guest posts, sharing favorite stories on social fronts and being on the top commnetors list on my favorite blogs. All this has helped to drive lots of traffic, authority and backlinks for my blog.
.-= Anil Gupta´s last blog ..Are you doing these 10 mistakes on Your Facebook Account? =-.
Being active on your blog and others is very important to be recognized within the community.
Just as you mentioned, I’d like to expand on these topics:
1. Top Commentors
Top commentors are a great way to show that you’re very active on other people’s blogs. Yes, the benefits of gaining a dofollow link (if applicable) is nice but being in front of others is the greater payoff. When others know you’re active, they’ll come to know you better.
2. Guest Post
We all know the benefits of contributing great guest posts but don’t forget you also gain great backend. It’s great to be social with other blog’s readers, the relationship you can build with other bloggers is priceless. When you become “in” with other bloggers, you’re both more likely to help each other with mutual goals.
3. Visitor Comments
Nothing is more detering than having your comment approved or commented on days later. You’re commenting on a blog NOW, you expect to gain some kind of response to keep the conversation alive. If blog owners aren’t answering comments within a time limit, people will become disinterested.
4. Retweeting
There’s nothing greater than showing your “thanks” by helping to promote other blogs. Other bloggers aren’t your competition, they’re your peers. You should be selfless and help each other, it all works out in the end.
I try to always be active on my blog and others. Although I’ve just started my new blog (Murlu), I’m trying to show that I care with insightful comments, promoting other blogs and guest posting.
Be active, be social and your blog readers will love you.
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Hi Murlu, keep on doing the great work by being active on your blog and create your social presence on other blogs in your niche by content sharing, commenting, guest blogging and other way you may know of.
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I have found forming relationships with other bloggers to be the most challenging aspect of a successful blogging Internet marketing campaign. The process is especially difficult if you are juggling a very busy and active personal life.
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Really satisfied with your thoughts. Blogging takes lots of time if done if you are thinking of creating a professional blog. Blogging is a full time job in itself. People who are doing job and doing blogging find it really difficult to give enough time to their blog.
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I agree that having a social blog is very important, we can attract more visitors by being social.
I already test the top commentators lists on some blogs, very useful, it gives many backlinks! However, i have never try guest posts yet but i will try it soon.
I have been doing guest posting very actively and that really pays for me. few months backs, I was not getting any guest post request on my blog. but now I used to get 5-6 guest post requests on my blog every month. And with guest blogging, I get in touch with lots of tp bloggers in my niche. So guest blogging is multi-purpose.
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Great article. It’s much more fun to participate on a blog with a human approach. So many blogs forget about the fact that they are talking to other people.
Very useful article Anil, Bloggers forget to help other while it comes to promote others articles or giving feedbacks. Blogging is more about building community. Once you start interacting with other bloggers in any way…your blog automatically get social.
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Surely blogging is not all about promoting your own products or services, Its more about sharing the good things on your blog and social networks where you are active. I himself used to share lots of useful posts from my favorite blogs on my facebook page.
.-= Anil Gupta´s last blog ..Are you doing these 10 mistakes on Your Facebook Account? =-.
Great tips. getting to know fellow bloggers in your niche by guest writing and commenting can only have positive results for both sides. I would also add to the list – linking to related posts and resources in your niche
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Thanks omer for your valuable suggestion. By including links to relaetd articles, we are actually offering more valuable content to oru blog readers and readers will spend more time on your blog which is good for you and your business.
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Our blog is not very social. Just attended a webinar this morning and didn’t realize how unsocial our was. That will change.
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So bring in some social elements to your blog and become more scoial to promote and for building relationship with readers and bloggers in your industry.
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I totally agree with all this information and it is great information. I do a lot of commenting and I have found that people comment back especially the ones that have already commented. I comment back on every comment I leave.
.-= Marg´s last blog ..We have our hooman wrapped around our Kitty paws. =-.
yes, commenting on other blogs in your niche will help you get more targeted readers, traffic, branding and most importantly backlinks which will help you get your blog high search engine rankings and page rank.
.-= Anil Gupta´s last blog ..Are you doing these 10 mistakes on Your Facebook Account? =-.
Solid list! I’ve got all but one down so far; guest posting, and that’svat the top of my list.
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Ok go ahead and find some top blogs in your niche that accept guest post. Contact those bloggers and show your willingness to write guest post on their blogs. When you approach in a polite way, most of bloggers will reply positively
.-= Anil Gupta´s last blog ..Are you doing these 10 mistakes on Your Facebook Account? =-.
First off great post. I decided to make this my answer to each one for each of your questions. Hope you don’t mind.
How Many Top Commenters Lists Are You On? I’m currently on five.
How Many Guest Posts Have You Done? Honsetly, only three. Although I did take my time and trired to develop quality guest posts.
Do You Reply To Your Visitor Comments? Every single time I get a comment!
Re-Tweet Other Blogger’s Articles – Did it to yours, do it to others.
Great post love the color setup and your theme colors!
.-= Noah Rainey´s last blog ..Guest Posting – 3 Traffic Tips =-.
If I answer some of questions, 25-30 of my guets posts have got published on my blogs, I reply to comments which require reply, tweet interesting stuff from other blogs and website in my niche
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Nice idea and I am happy as my new blog has several guest bloggers and I also guest blogged on shoutmeloud too, I can confirm that eblogtip.com is a bit social now
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I wrote a guets post on your blog few days back. That’s really helped me. Your blog looks great to me and I would sugget you to write more guest posts on other top blogs in our niche and also on some of blogs that wrote guets post on your blog and are decent
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Commenting on other blogs and replying it is the best way to socialize in blogging community.
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It’s is up to decide which path you want to choose for making your blog more social. Btu I would recommend you to do some guest blogging on other blogs in your industry.
.-= Anil Gupta´s last blog ..Are you doing these 10 mistakes on Your Facebook Account? =-.
Hey Anil,
These are really solid tips. I’m doing everything except Guest poting. Guest Posting is definitely on my to do list but it always seems to get pushed down and down.
Thanks for sharing this great tips.
Regards,
Dev
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Don’t delay the magic of guest blogging. Just start off with one good article, send it to any of your favorite blog in your niche, that accept guest post. Once you are done with one, you would become a big fan of guest blogging
.-= Anil Gupta´s last blog ..Are you doing these 10 mistakes on Your Facebook Account? =-.
Very interesting article Anil. After changing my blogging platform from blogger to wordpress I come to know why wordpress blogs are so popular. We can easily socialize our blog by using loads of plug in and more socialize your blog more traffic you gained.
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Nice to know that you have moved to wordpress platform now..I hope you are loving it.
Very wise decision. There are lots of very popular blogs who are still continuing with blogger free blogs like Alan Liew popular money making blog. With this, they are taking the risk of losing their blog for no real reason. If blogger deletes your blog, all of your blogging efforts will go in vain. So it is a wise decision to switch to a self hosted blog if you are serious and want to build some business with your blog.
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I worked so dilligently last time to get on every Top Commentator lists as much as possible..then I got lazy and couldn’t be bothered anymore
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This is the problem I face lots of time when I want to do lots of things for my blog promotion, but managed to do very few things.
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Nowadays blog popularity is getting huge importance in SEO.The blogs in which people socially interact with others to share story or discuss anything according to their interest.from blogging lot of people coming to your blog and get benefit from your post.Thanks for sharing such a useful post.
In the recent times, Google started giving more weightage to websites with some brand name behind them. Few years back, you would have been able to get into top 10 for highly competitive keywords on the basis of links from blogs, forums, directories etc. But now the situation has changed. Google does not give much weightage to new domains.
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Guest blogging is a must to do measure. It also makes us get known to other people and also helps u get useful backlinks.
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Surely, writing guest posts for top blogs in blogging and money making niche has really helped me improve my blog paeg rank, search engine rankings and branding in the recent times. Before the current update, my blog was having pr 0 and now my blog is having PR 2. Guest blogging and commenting on other blogs in my niche, really helped me achieve this page rank.
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These are really actually solid tips. I’m managing everything except Guest posting. Guest Posting is decisively on my to manage register but it habitually appears to get shoved down and down..
I’m have been very active on the guest blogging front recently, but haven’t been able to make too much effort towards blog commenting. I’m thinking of speeding up my efforts in this direction in the coming days.
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Must say I’ve not really being actively socially. Though I do most of these tips but I think I’ve not really done much. Looking forward to really engaging more on social networking.
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Some great ways to improve the social aspect of our blogs.
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I agree that social participation is key to getting more exposure and I am trying to do the same for my Pompeii tours blog
.-= Francesca@Pompeii Tours´s last blog ..Pompeii Travel Tips =-.
It’s about being liked and getting people to follow. Kind of like Jr High but on a monitor.