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.
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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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
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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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