4 Ways to Gain Credibility and To Network

Networking is one of the best parts about blogging; to share the traffic, have someone who really understands you, someone who has the same passions as you. Almost every  popular blog got popular by another blog linking to it. It is like a chain;

Let’s say we have 5 popular blogs A, B, C, D, E and a 3 months old blog called -> F<- (your blog)

You mail blog ‘A’ and introduce yourself, say hello, tell them that you really enjoy their blog. Base the relationship first, before you are asking for any help.

Then blog ‘A’ watches your blog, and find an interesting article. Subsequently blog ‘A’ link to the blog article and blog B, C, D and E sees the article on blog A and then they go to your blog. Now they link to some other great articles of yours, which implies that another 5 blogs watches your blog, and in the end they link to the blog.

You see? It’s like a chain that’s why networking with others bloggers is so beautiful.

1. Introduce Yourself Before Anything Else

This is the way to contact another blogger, which may seem a bit awkward for you, but it is not. I thought that in the beginning, but almost everyone is doing it, so I can’t see why you should not. Now the mistake other bloggers tend to do, is that they ask a question in an email, and then two email after that they introduce themselves. You should introduce yourself at first, instead of writing a question to them at first.

Another mistake bloggers normally do when they are writing to introduce themselves, is that they go for the top blogers right away. Which unfortunately is a bad idea, they are keys to get success quickly, but they are aslo hard to get in touch with.

That’s why you should contact smaller bloggers, who are at your blogging level. Instead of interacting with the bloggers who have 1000+ readers every day; you should go for those around your own traffic level.

So once you have the same amount of traffic as other top bloggers, it’ll be easier for you to, get in touch with the other top bloggers in your niche. When you have that amoun of traffic your credibility is already established, which, of course, is why you are blogging.

2. Using Twitter to Gain Credibility

I use Twitter almost every day. I like Twitter. It is easy to network with other bloggers using Twitter; you can talk with other bloggers in just 140 characters

You can build credibility and relationships (even though I think it is easier to contact other bloggers through their mail) but they might be slow to answer emails. So Twitter is a great place for building relationships. However I think Twitter is a good place to build relationships with potential readers.

I really enjoy networking with other bloggers and share knowledge that way. I think you should try as often as possible to interact with other bloggers using Twitter; it’s a great communication tool.

As I said before Twitter is a great way to gain credibility, you can easily tell if a Twitter account is a spammer or if there is a real person behind the screen. That really is a plus.

The way you can tell if a Twitter account is a spam-account (it can be a real person) is if they only post link and follow around 800 and only 24 is following them back. But it’s obvious when you see a spam-account

3. A Way to Get Top Links

When you have published an amazing article, you can email top bloggers, and tell them about your article. I did that myself in the beginning of my Danish blogs, and I won a lot of readers that way – again with the chain reaction.

You should not expect that any of those bloggers to respond to your email. You can be lucky and it would be a thrill, if not it will end up with you being disappointed (maybe). If you already have a relation to the blogger it will be easier to make them link.

4. Another Funny Method to Get Top Links Back To Your Blog

The following method is something I really love, however I don’t do it as frequently as I should.

The method is: Interviewing other people.

I like doing interviews.; It also gives you some links back, imagine you can interview the best blogger in your niche, they get lots of traffic and they probably will link back to the interview. You can do different forms of interviews; you can interview by normal text or recording voice throughout Skype, this is called a Podcast.

I am a big fan of interviews, mainly because they are fun to make.

Try do it one time, I can recommend it, it is a good way to start a relationship foundation with another blogger, though.