Blogging Communities and Directories
Part of my job is helping smaller business’s achieve harmony on the web. Most clients cannot afford to spend large amounts of money to help boost their online presence. One way to help boost presence and deliver more quality content to their users is through a blog. There are so many different aspects to help achieve blogging bliss it is hard for me to explain them all. One of the biggest boosts I found in the blogging game is to join blog communities and directories.
Blogging communities can be found throughout the net and finding a good one takes a little trial and error. It is good to join as many as you can just to get the exposure, but finding a niche community related to your blog may be a little tougher. All blogging communities offer something of value to other users and yourself, and once again it comes down to what you put in, you will get out.
My first week of blogging after writing a few posts was to search out all the directories and set up accounts with each one. After doing about 25 or so I felt this task was daunting and very time consuming so I ignored it for a while. I would get the occasional email from one community here or there to exchange links or follow each others efforts through RSS. Without much effort on my part to further the cause, one community really started to stand out of the crowd. I was getting a lot of contacts and creating good exchanges of links, ideas and information, all the while being encouraged to join sub communities. These sub groups is where my efforts paid off. I was able to find other blogs that were related to mine, tons of link / RSS exchanges and the ability to increase my exposure without spending tons of time doing it.
The one site I had the most success with is Blog Catalog, not to say the others are not great, too. I have heard from others that success came from other communities and that they had no luck with blog catalog. I think that the right one will find you and networking is the key to online blog success. It is not only important to have quality content, but be able to deliver it to the right audience.
Blog Communities
Blog Directories
