1# Be a Friend to Become a Friend
Be a friend. Support people you meet. Be nice. Be helpful. Be a friend.
This is simple. This simple act sets the foundation for a prospering
relationship.
How do you treat offline friends? Well treat your online blogging
friends the same way. Help. Go above and beyond to support your friends.
2# Create Comments like Content
The easiest way to make an impact in minutes is to read a blog post and
create a memorable, valuable, piece of content with your comments. You
will stand out from the crowd and make a ton of friends.
Comments can be your best friend in the networking department. Bloggers love
receiving comments.
Awesome comments? Well heck, you will have a blogger friend for life if
you post 3-4 paragraph masterpieces on their blog, because each comment
is a piece of content.
This means that search engines love crawling sites and seeing many
insightful comments. Active, engaging blogs do well in search engines
which of course
spikes your blog traffic quickly.
3# Create Guest Posts for Buddies
I reached out to Ankit to see if he needed me to write a guest post. He
did. So I churned this out. Here I am, making buddies with his audience
and strengthening my relationship with Ankit too.
Read: How to Convince Someone to Write a Guest Post for You: 5 Steps
My network grows stronger and guess what?
Guest posting benefits me too. Win-win situation here. I expand my presence and
boost my blog traffic while providing Ankit with helpful, relevant content for his blog.
So our friendship grows stronger, my network expands and both parties win.
Be aggressive on the guest posting front to become a real networking
machine. Famous entertainers network like mad, collaborating with other
singers. Same deal with
guest blogging. Showing up everywhere makes you memorable.
4# Open Up Your Blog to Guest Posting
This one is tough to follow for many bloggers. Perfectionists or selfish
people want all the publicity for themselves. Unfortunately, selfish,
greedy people make few friends in this world.
Generous people become networking machines. Because generous people are popular; we all love free givers.
I have roughly 20 guest posters on my blog. More are hopping on board
quickly though as I sort through my email and field requests.
Hey, who WOULDN’T want to post on a blog that gets 10,000 page visits
daily? And if I allow people to post, to share my platform, I am going
to meet more, and more people, and my network grows, and my page visits
will jump on autopilot as I simply review, hit “Publish”, and my network
grows again.
Read: Why I Opt Guest Posting For My Blog?
Accept guest posts. Stress the benefits of guest posting on your blog. Share your metrics. Grow your blogging network.
Your Turn
How do you grow your blogging network? Are you struggling to make blogging buddies?
What tips can you add to this list? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below. I would love to chat with you.