Posted November 21st, 2008

Don’t Blog in a Vacuum - Reach Out

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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 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.

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Responses to “Don’t Blog in a Vacuum - Reach Out”

Derek Says:

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!

growmap Says:

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.

Ryan Says:

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.

Internet Strategist Says:

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.

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