Every blogger starts career alone but sooner or later he wants to start his own network of blogs or want to connect with successful and pro-bloggers, who can guide them or just to stay inspired.
It is always better to connect with other bloggers whom you think are ideal for you and who can give you a new twist to your blogging career.
You should never think that a blogger is successful only if he is earning a good income, he should be a nice person to work with.
Connecting with such a successful blogger might be a problem for a newbie, but there are few tips to attract your ideal blogger with whom you want to work or who can help you in your blogging career.
Everyone knows a difference between a Professional blogger and a part-time blogger. Professional blogger has to deal with lots of things like writing articles, promoting a brand, search engine optimization, networking, advertisement sells and many other activities. In the end, blogging is bread and butter for pro-bloggers.
6 Tips to connect with other bloggers:
1. Comment – First point of connection
Comment like crazy to meet more bloggers and expand your presence online. If you are quick to connect with many bloggers you eventually start to meet superstars of the blogging world.
This is not some magical, mystical secret, how to meet top shelf bloggers. Simply post comments on many relevant blogs each day.
Make each comment valuable. Drive-by’s like “Hi how are you great post!”, are not going to impress people. Use 1 to 2 full paragraphs to make your point.
These types of comments solidified my rep in the blogosphere. I no longer leave such lengthy comments only because I have too many guest posts, articles and post for my blogs to write.
2. Share Posts Aggressively
I am known for sharing posts like mad, both my own and posts by others. If you want to succeed in catching a popular blogger’s attention you better promote the stuffing out of yourself and your buddies. By promoting you, folks see you believe in yourself.
By promoting other people you grow your readership quickly because many of the people you promote return the kind act and promote you in return.
This is a big reason why I have over 24,000 followers on twitter. I retweeted people aggressively for many years before I saw these sizable numbers. Whatever you want, give it away.
Do you want traffic?
Help people to get traffic, and you will find yourself meeting more superstar bloggers as your influence and reach grows.
3. Know them properly
As I said, a successful blogger is not only one who can earn money by hook or crook. I came across bloggers who offered me to work with them but I never liked the way they use to work for making money online.
You must only connect to bloggers who have a passion to work and highly determined to achieve their goals in an ethical way; after all, it’s about your blogging career.
4. Communicate
This is the key for getting noticed by successful bloggers. Ask them for help if you have any problems, one can ask them about their blogging career and how to go ahead in blogging career.
However it is always better to communicate when they are free and therefore one should ask which is good time to contact with them.
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5. Implement their advice
Asking questions with your ideal bloggers is not enough. They will only help you if you will implement their ideas. If successful bloggers share blogging secrets with you and when you give them good results, they will be glad that they played their part in your journey to a successful blogging career.
6. Understand their Time Value
Most of the blogger once connect with pro-blogger tries to talk to them every time they see him/her online. Understand the value of their time and with pinging him every time you might be making him delete you or block you from the list.
Most of the people think that such bloggers are Egoistic and impolite. Truth is being a professional blogger is not easy, and one finds it hard to give you all the time.
So when you get a chance to interact with them, try to ask only important questions, which answer you can’t find on the web. Being professional you can win anyone heart.
This is normal human psychology and I’m sure it will work for you too.
These are very basic things to know when it comes to connecting with successful bloggers. Just remember to be polite and professional while communicating and be passionate to work on tips provided by successful bloggers.
Do let us know how do you connect with Professional bloggers? Do they answer you politely or they ignore your messages?
Thank you for this post I will make sure to be as polite and professional with the person. I had a question should I use the comments section to get in touch with the person or his or her mail id should be a good way.pls help
Hey Ruchi !
Thank you so much for the simplified answer on how to build your connections in the blogging world.
It’s something I can relate to, I have been wondering what should I do next! Well its quite an eye opener to me. As usual, Shout me loud has become an encyclopedia for blogging.
Love you, folks !!
Joby John
Aweeome tips to follow.Thanks a lot
Yup communicating with other successful bloggers is a great way to connect with professional bloggers as with some of them you can make a long term relationship which will help you in growing your blogging business too.
Awesome Tip for freshers in blogging. Senior blogger always help and give the solution of problem with details. So keep them in touch. Appreciate their work with attractive and genuine comments, they will surely Notice you. Nicely written from Whiztechy. Thanks for such a good post 🙂 🙂
Awesome tips Harsh. Even professional bloggers need help at times. Keeping track of their tweets and then replying with answers is a great way to connect with them as well.
great tips.. to comment on their articles i mean lots of articles may help you to get his attention.. because it shows that you are learning from his article and he is like your blog mentor.. really good tips..
regards,
I do argee with you. In addition, I think one of the necessary lesson we should learn is share your knowledge in case you are still not a pro blogger. Each one has himself experience.
Really nice post Ruchi.
All your posints were noteworthy and are practicable. But i don’t think that just with these practices only a problogger would connect with you.
If you want to contact someone or connect with them, the first way is to introduce them, then being one of their good reader and commentator. I never mean the ‘praising’ comments as you refer. All successfull bloggers will be having a lot of praisers and they won’t even note you if you too join them. But if you criticize his posts and evaluate his words, he surely will be attracted by you and will connect with you.
This is the best way to connect with a pro-blogger
Glad you like the post Rajeel,
I guess if you keep on doing genuine comments or Criticism they will surely notice you. Out of 100 comments there are only 10 guninue comments which helps to attract others.
Awesome tips Harsh. Even professional bloggers need help at times. Keeping track of their tweets and then replying with answers is a great way to connect with them as well.
Thanks for adding tip Binaryday, Social network is great way to connect to Pro bloggers.
From my experience, if the need is genuine, they will always help. Never expect them to reply to emails whose answer can be found on Google.
And the biggies I know, all of them are down-to-earth and humble. They will surprise us with their humility 🙂
Some do and Some don’t. Once a blogger is successful the blogging is becomes more of a business to him or her.
To maintain gratitude and try to concentrate on helping the community is what makes a pro blogger who he/she is.
@ NpXp, You will get all kind of bloggers in blogosphere. Thus it is important that you first know the about blogger and then try to contact him/her.
Right Arun, Many times people ask such things which they can easily get online, Pro bloggers might not reply to such mails and then others think that they don’t care about to answer or help.
Yep. me too have the same opinion and same experience. Each and every professional blogger i have contacts with, are humble and helpful. Being such will definitely open a path to success. 🙂