What’s Relationship Blogging?

Blogging was about traffic and links

1. Post regularly (at least twice a week).

2. Produce meaningful, well written, and well presented content.

3. Stay focused on your topic (so people know what to expect from you).

4. Read and comment on other blogs.

5. Link to other blogs when and where it supports your topic.

As blogging has matured, relationships and community have become more important in building a successful blog.

Reading, commenting, and linking alone are action items. They’re temporary and anteseptic if there is no relationship being created.

The real power of blogging is that it’s one more way to forge meaningful relationships with people and actively participate in communities and conversations.

Blogging is now about relationships

1. Build relationships with other bloggers and communities whether directly related to your topic or not.

a. Participate in other blogs. Converse, commune, and enhance those blogs as best you can.

b. Take the conversation off the blog. Email, call, or personally meet other bloggers.

c. Connect and be connected. Learn about those in your community. Find people with like interests or issues. How could you help them be successful? How might they help you?

2. Let people get to know you. Stay focused on your topic, but be yourself. 

3. Produce meaningful, well written, and well presented content.

4. Post regularly (at least twice a week).  Engage people that comment on your posts.

After about 15 months of blogging, I’ve found that my favorite bloggers (the ones I read on a regular basis) are almost all relationship bloggers.

But that’s no surprise!

Blogging is just one more way for us to do what we do naturally – connect!

 

If relationship blogging is interesting to you, I highly suggest you register for SOBCon07. This event is completely focused on how relationship blogging can take your blog to the next level. 

I will be there and I would love to meet you!

Comments

[Connie Reece]

Hi, Ann. Found your blog by clicking on a link to this post on The Good Blogs. I'll be at SOBCon07 and hope to meet you there!

[ann michael]

Wonderful! Can't wait to meet you.

[Cory Garrison]

Ann,

How interesting. I've actually started unsubscribing to bloggers that aren't interested in connecting and relationship building! I'm now feeling better about making that decision!

[ann michael]

Hi Cory!

There are so many blogs, news feeds, and other sources of information, that we have to use some criteria to filter the list.

I haven't done quite what you've done yet, but I do tend to keep going to the blogs that make me feel welcome.

We all have to figure out what works for us!

Ann

[Sunil Bajpai]

What is the mechanism for filtering all the sources of information?

Their ability to grab attention: http://tinyurl.com/2ld82e

Let me personally welcome you to my blog!