Darren Rowse is potentially the highest earning blogger and his ProBlogger blog is without doubt THE best known blog anywhere – and for good reason. He blogs about how to make money blogging. How popular is it? His posts can garner 100+ comments and leaving intelligent comments there WILL send traffic to your blog.
Even if you have no desire to blog for money directly, I am sharing his two recent posts here to encourage business owners who blog to increase sales by reaching out to other bloggers.
- The Power of Collaboration in Today’s Blogging World – 10 Reasons to Find A Blog Buddy
- How to Go About Finding a Blogging Buddy: The Power of Collaboration in Blogging
The above two links contain suggestions on how to reach out to other bloggers which can pull in readers. While this may sound difficult or even overwhelming, you can start with one small step. The only way to learn new skills is to jump in with both feet and just do it.
Here is my favorite way to reach out to related blogs: I use the Zuula Blog Search function to locate recent posts related to what I am writing. Zuula makes it easier because they rank the posts for both relevancy and recency making it faster to find the best posts quickly. Just type your search and click Blog.
Whenever I locate quality information or bloggers I add them to my latest posts by:
- Quoting the most applicable or best information in the post
- Linking to their post from the body of my post
- Adding a link – often including a review of their post, site or blog – under a reference section I add to most posts. It might be titled Additional Resources, or Reference Sites, Related Links or Related Posts. These sections add value for my readers, share great posts and sites with others, send deserving sites new visitors, and make it easy for me to find them again for my own use.
RELATED BLOGGING POSTS:
- 13 Tips on Asking Other Bloggers for Links – TIP: Be a sharp blogger and provide links to quality blog posts and blogs even before they ask.
- How to Use Blogs to Promote Your Business
- One Blogging Tip for A Beginner – Derek has a popular all-around blog that is a great example for new bloggers: money, motorcycles, and cars (and a little bit of everything else). He was recently honored by being included in the (already sold out!) new book Blog Blazers; 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets. Amazon has more on order or you can get the ebook or paperbook versions directly from BlogBlazers.com.
- Blog Comment Tip: Respond to Comments or Risk Losing Subscribers
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As someone that tries to reach out to other bloggers, as I think that benefits everyone involved, I wanted to say thanks for the tip on using Zuula while writing a post.
I’ll have to keep that site handy!
I am pretty sure Grizzly makes more money off his make money online blog than Darren Rose does, but yes leaving valuable comments on either blog will get some sufficient traffice to your site.
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Hello Derek. Glad you dropped by. I love Zuula and use it every day. You’ll appreciate the way results are categorized by both recency and relevance.
I should have mentioned that they offer a toolbar and the option to add it to the search box in your Firefox toolbar. I usually use the Firefox search box and then switch to the blog option when I get the first results.
I’ll second the thanks for the Zuula tip. I’ve already added it to my Firefox search box!
Looks like a great way to quickly find quality, related content. As a new blogger, that will prove extremely helpful.
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Hi Ryan. Thanks for the comment and supporting the idea of using Zuula for blog search. The more great related blog posts we can share the better for all bloggers.
Thanks so much for the link to my blog comment tip, it’s greatly appreciated and always good to see others advocate such things.
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@Dennis Good to have you here and hope you’ll be back. I do link to quality related content from almost every post.
It mystifies me why so few bloggers comment on blogs they enjoy and then share the quality content they find there. Great blogs have communities that comment intelligently. Following those comments leads to even more great blogs and content!
I hope when you have time you can read some of my older posts too. Most are not time-sensitive and are still highly relevant. I’ve subscribed to your blog so I’ll be sharing more of your posts here and at FriendFeed and Twitter.
I’ll definitely be checking in from time to time, keep up the great work.
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@Dennis I am catching up on any comments I missed replying to and found this one. Thank you for being one of my regular readers. I will be making the commenting rounds and get by your blogs soon.
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