Building Your Blog Community

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Feb. 20, 2007 at 9:38am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Building Your Blog Community

Joe Whyte has an excellent write up at the Search Marketing Standard blog on how to build up a blog community. He gives the classic ten point list, for his part one of a series in this column. Here is a quick summary of the ten point list:

Network with others in your industry
Learn about your blog community with MyBlogLogs and related blogs
Be opinionated and lively with your content
Have goals and think long term
Retain your visitors
Encourage commenting
Use linkbait like titles
Leverage social media
Leverage link baiting
Join ad networks

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Reader Comments

Thanks, stuff like this is always useful to me.

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| February 20, 2007 10:31 AM

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