Every blogger starts his career alone, but sooner or later he wants to build his own blogger network or wants to connect with successful and professional bloggers so that he can mentor them or just give them inspiration.
It is always better to connect with other bloggers who you think are a good fit for you and can bring a new twist to your blogging career.
You must not think that a blogger is successful only if he makes a lot of money. He should be someone who is easy to get along with.
For a newbie, it might be a problem to connect with such a successful blogger, but there are some tips to attract the ideal blogger whom you want to work with or who can help you in your blogging career.
Everyone knows the difference between a professional blogger and a part-time blogger. A professional blogger has to take care of a lot of things like writing articles, promoting a brand, SEO, building a network, selling ads, and many other activities. At the end of the day, blogging is a professional blogger’s livelihood.
6 tips for connecting with other bloggers:
1. Comments – the first point of contact
Comment like crazy, meet more bloggers, and expand your online influence. If you can quickly connect with many bloggers, you will eventually start to meet the superstars of the blogging world.
It’s not some magical, mysterious secret how to meet top bloggers. Simply comment on many relevant blogs every day.
Make every comment count. Talking in a polite way like, “Hi, how are you, great post!” won’t impress. Make your point in 1-2 full paragraphs.
These comments solidified my reputation in the blogosphere. I no longer leave such long comments, simply because I have too many guest posts, articles and posts to write for my blog.
2. Actively share posts
I'm known for sharing posts like crazy, both my own and other people's. If you want to successfully attract the attention of a popular blogger, you better promote yourself and your friends. By promoting you, people will see that you have confidence in yourself.
By promoting other people, you can quickly grow your readership because many of the people you promote will also return the favor and promote you in return.
This is a big reason why I have over 24,000 followers on Twitter. I actively retweeted people for years before I saw those numbers. Whatever you want, give it.
Do you want traffic?
Help people get traffic, and as your influence and reach grow, you’ll find yourself meeting more superstar bloggers.
3. Understand them correctly
As I said, successful bloggers are not just those who can make money by any means necessary. I have come across bloggers who have actively asked me to work with them, but I did not like the way they were making money online .
You must only connect with bloggers who are passionate about their work and determined to achieve their goals in an ethical manner; after all, it’s your blogging career that’s at stake.
4. Communication
This is the key to getting noticed by successful bloggers. If you have any questions, you can ask them for help and you can ask them questions about blogging career and how to move forward in your blogging career.
However, it is always better to communicate when they are free, so one should ask when is a good time to contact them.
Also read: 8 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Blogging
5. Implement their suggestions
Asking questions to your ideal blogger is not enough. They will help you only if you implement their ideas. If successful bloggers share blogging secrets with you and when you bring them good results, they will be happy that they played a role in your successful blogging career.
6. Understand the value of their time
Most bloggers, once they connect with a professional blogger, will try to talk to them every time they see him/her online. Know the value of their time and that pinging him every time might make him delete you or block you from his list.
Most people think such bloggers are selfish and rude. In fact, it is not easy to be a professional blogger and it is difficult to spend all your time on blogging.
So when you get a chance to interact with them, try to ask only important questions, the answers to which you won’t find online. Being professional can win anyone’s heart.
This is normal human psychology and I’m sure it applies to you too.
These are the basics you need to know when connecting with successful bloggers. Just remember to be polite, professional, and enthusiastic about learning the tips that successful bloggers have to offer.
Please tell us how you contact professional bloggers? Do they respond to you politely or ignore your messages?
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