Be Part of The Blog Game- Participaction Required for Success
Rudd Hein, of Search Engine People posts excellent and well written article of the need for bloggers to participate in the “community”. In his article, It’s The Participation Stupid He notes that if you’re not participating, you willingly give up mindshare and fail to influence. That blogging in world by yourself won’t get you very far. You need to “talk” about others in your field, link to them, comment on them.
You have to participate.
Absolutely dead on. Relationships are key to successful blogging. Not just with your readers- but other in your niche. Write about what others are doing in your field; what they are saying in their blogs? Comment on it on both your blog and theirs. Ask them questions- stir things up a bit.
Join various social medias to create contacts and meet other like minded people and BLOG about it.
Though this was written back in 2007, it is absolutely true even today. Participation is the key…