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When you start blogging, you start belonging to the blogging communities (or online communities) the more you write and interact with others.
You might have read posts about why blogging is a competition and that is true of course. Blogging is a competition as you got other blogs writing the same thing in your niche.
Blogging isn’t entirely based on competition. If it was a competition, bloggers would be throwing world war 3 at each other saying who has the best and helpful blog posts on a topic. But that’s really not what the blogging communities are overall.
Bloggers, even bigger bloggers, still communicate with other bloggers in their niche to help build a following and gain newer readers.
That’s why I’ll be listing my reasons on why you should spread love through blogging communities.
So grab your mug of coffee or tea and let’s get right into it!
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Bounce off ideas from each other
Did you know that you can gain different ideas for your new blog post by reading other people’s blog post? You can use their reference for your research, that way you can write down facts and gain trust with your readers.
I know that I always gain my ideas for future blog posts when I read other blog posts. Don’t trust me? You can look back at my older blog posts and search it up on Google or Pinterest where you can find different results but have the same topic as mine.
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When gaining blog post ideas from other bloggers, I do warn you NOT to copy their post. That’s plagiarism and you can get into serious lawsuits for that. Read more about plagiarism here.
What I try to do when gaining those ideas is to take note of the keywords they use and then write my own version on it (your experiences, research, etc). If they have a good idea, you can turn that around but make it into your own words by adding in your own experience, writing style and/or thoughts about the topic.
Create connections from your blogging communities
As you can see, I have no friends. Well, I do but you only a few close ones here and there. I could be here creating new friends by now. Look, the point is you can actually make friends who are in the same niche as you and have the same interest.
When I first started blogging, I was self-conscious and judged people by their ages. For example, I was only a teenager in high school and I thought, “how can I befriend someone who is way older than me? What if I have nothing in interest or act so unmatured for their age?”.
I know, sounds selfish of me and as a teen, I was only friends with people around my age. I can tell you, I’ve looked beyond that after all those years.
It’s been over 2 years and I soon realised to open up and befriend someone based on their interest and personality, not because of their age.
I haven’t created a deep connection with some bloggers that I guest post or who have a guest post for me but I will try to improve on that in the future (and if you want to be friends with me, you can literally just contact me and say “Hi! How are ya?”).
By creating connections, you’re creating a trust (like an actual relationship). You see, I read another blogger’s who I can actually relate with my personal life.
Let’s be real here, this is a good advantage for you in boosting your blog and authority but also, you’re creating friendships on the internet! It’s a win-win.
You build a social
Whenever you’re close with a fellow blogger or friends with one, you’ll probably end up getting suggested in one of their posts or one of their social media platforms.
You might have read posts that say that bloggers grow by connecting socially with other bloggers in their niche and trading with each other (could be with guest posting, link sharing in their posts or social media, etc.).
This means that once your name gets out there, their followers will check you out and since they’re interested in the same content/niche, they will end up following you. Later on, they’ll be one of your loyal readers.
It’s pretty strange to me how one reader is a loyal follower to blogger A and blogger B who blogger A and blogger B have connections with each other. The cycle then repeats and expands. Confusing but let’s be real, it’s astonishing the little world we live in.
If you’re like me and lack socialising with other bloggers in your field, try reading this post by Brian from Backlinko about Blogger Outreach. You also don’t have to be an introvert to not socialise online.
Your blog will grow
It’s true that your blog will grow when you allow others to write on your site or write on other people’s site. Even comment on their post or social media platform/s.
I’ve done many guest posts and allowed guest posters on my site. It made such an improvement to my organic search score and with backlinks, Google will verify you as a “trusted” site and will rank you higher in the search engine the more your link gets recommended by other blog posts.
If you want to guest post on my site, feel free to click this link and contact me! I’ll reply during weekdays and Saturday (Sundays are for snoozy days).
Conclusion
Now it’s time to get socialising in the blogging community! You blog posts won’t get anywhere unless you start acting upon your sharing skills.
Try out the tips I’ve given you about the blogging community and check out my favourite bloggers that I highly recommend checking out when it comes to improving your blog.
List of top bloggers in the blogging communities I recommend checking out:
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Very helpful information. I’m a new blogger and I’ve been trying to network in the blogging world. I think that this post will be helpful to me and many others.
Welcome to the blogging world! I’m glad you found this helpful. Not all readers come by automatically these days. Nowadays, you gotta interact to gain the traffic you need.
Great post and I agree that bloggers help other bloggers come up with more ideas for posts and photo ideas, plus collabs are always fun!
Collabs are definitely fun! It’ll be awesome to be involved in nearly every collab as possible.
These are great tips. I love that you’re talking about building community. That’s a genuine way to build followers.
Thank you for your opinion! I haven’t read any post on building communities but there is plenty of post about sharing other blogs and their blog post. It’s an awesome way to share.
I’m all for supporting other bloggers. I do guest posts every week.
That’s awesome! Doing guest posts every week will help your blog grow with new readers.
thank you for helpful post.
Anytime! Thanks for reading.
These are some really good tips. Will definitely try them
Great! Hope it works out. 🙂
I love collaborating with other bloggers and have made so many friends done this.
I love collaborating as well!
These four points are so totally true as I have gotten so much inspiration and gained so many friends by blogging.
That’s great! I’m glad you can gain something out of blogging and social networking.
Blogging is definitely a wonderful way to connect with others while staying creative. I’ve been at it for ten years and have enjoyed the ride.
10 Years!?! That’s awesome! I wished I started blogging sooner but what can you do now? Blogging must have changed for you in the long run.
Great post! This is really helpful. 🙂 I will share this to my fellow bloggers as well.
Couldn’t agree more with the points you’ve mentioned here! Blogging is all about building a community and therefore, we need to engage and connect with other blogs and bloggers!
You already said everything that I thought of! So true.
People think Blogging is a lone race. No, it’s not! It’s much like sharing and growing.
Haha, that’s what I thought too when I started out blogging and look where that leads me!
These are such great ideas!!! I’ll take note!
Thanks for reading! Hope it helps.
so many great tips for newbies like me! i think you’re right, expanding your social network is so important
I’m glad it’s very helpful for you! It is important to expand your social network.
I really need to do more networking online. I’m much better meeting other people in the niche face to face at events.
Haha, I’m the opposite as you! I have social anxiety so it’s really difficult for me to meet other bloggers face to face. I’ve also never been to blogging events.
Yes, that’s true. It helps with connection and social network. Without this, it would be impossible to get good traffic these days.
Yep, it certainly does help with connection and social networking! It’s very hard nowadays to gain new traffic with SEO so guest posting and networking really help.
These are great!! The connections you build can be wonderfu!!
I agree! It is awesome to create connections.
This is really helpful information for bloggers! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for reading! I’m glad it’s helpful.
I completely agree that it’s harder to your grow your blog if you stay a lone ranger. Definitely the support from the blogging community can help!
Yeah, when I first started blogging, I always thought it would be like “oh im gonna be working on this all alone”. Was I so wrong!
I love the idea of learning something from a new blog post. 🙂
I absolutely agree with you! Learning something new from a new blog post is a great way to keep up to date with your own blog.
I always link out to others with supporting articles to mine. The growth has been exponential. Often they will do the same and they take a vested interest in sharing the article as well.
I like to look to other bloggers for help in how to grow my blog, tips on driving traffic to my site and for ways to monetize. I totally agree that bloggers need to look to others to help grow their blog.
I am the same! It’s really helpful to check out other sites and tips from their post in order to improve our blog.
Some really valuable advice for new or not so new bloggers.
Thank you! Hope this post helps 😊