Interact With Your Community

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Interact With Your Community

It seems like just about every blog owner is a member of MyBlogLog by now, and many of them have chosen to display the MyBlogLog recent visitors widget on their blogs. What is your purpose in joining blog community websites such as MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog?

As I brought out in my PDF Blog Traffic Made Easy, these sites are a wonderful resource for you to interact with other bloggers who are interested in your site! In my personal experience, it seems to me that many are not using the full potential of these sites.

I joined MyBlogLog last month. When I did, I installed the recent visitors widget, which you see on the right side of your screen right now. Ever since my first visitor, I make a point watch for new visitors to this site. When I spot someone I haven’t seen here before, I leave them a quick message thanking them for stopping by my blog. While I’m doing that I try to take a look at any blogs they author. It’s been a little difficult to keep up lately because they put a limit as to how many people you can message in a day, but as of right now, I have 99 community members.

Every once in a while if I feel I have something very important to share with everyone in my community, I will message everyone letting them know what it is. I’m careful not to overuse this feature, because I don’t want to spam everyone’s message board.

Over the past month I have sent out thousands of messages thanking people for visiting my site or telling them that I enjoyed their blog. Maybe I’ve sent you one. What I find odd is the fact that after sending all those messages and visiting dozens of different blogs everyday, I have not received one single message since I signed up with MyBlogLog!

My point here is not that I’m sad because nobody seems to love me. It’s the fact that tens of thousands of people are joining these blog communities, not doing anything about it, and then wondering why they never see a growth in their blog’s popularity. I guess they just like to look at all the pretty avatars come and go on their site.

If you join services such as MyBlogLog or BlogCatalog, be sure to use them to your advantage. Have a purpose in doing so. Remember- blogging is not a one way street. By interacting with others using something other than just your blog posts, you will develop a reputation in the blogosphere and steadily increase your popularity.

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