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You know that developing a tribe of other bloggers can benefit your own blogging pursuits, so you’re taking the time necessary to reach out to and connect with these folks. What may not have occurred to you is the value connecting with other professionals within and relevant to the blogging world can bring. Adding diversity to your networking pursuits is something business leaders advocate across industries. Therefore, it makes sense to apply this rule to your professional goals as a blogger. Read on to discover some of the best ways to diversify your blogging network.    Offer Help Without Expectations...

One incredibly important component of how successful your blog will be is reader engagement. If your audience is actively involved with the content, they will likely return again and again. When people are able to make a personal connection with a blog, brand or other online source, it makes them feel more invested. This personal investment is attractive to an audience. Therefore, an effective strategy to reach your blogging goals is to turn your blog’s readership into a community. Building a network is essential to bloggers these days, and there’s really no more dedicated group of folks than the ones...

You know that it’s important to give, rather than just take, if you want to grow a dynamic tribe of blogging friends. No one wants to engage with someone who’s only out for themselves. Besides being obnoxious, it defeats the whole purpose of community. You want to be seen as a person who enjoys providing support, but you may not know how to do that within the world of blogging. Sure, you try to share friends’ posts as often as you can on social media, but there’s a lot more you could be doing to show your blog besties you...

It is hard to believe it has been 30 days since we started this Blogging Challenge together. We covered a lot of ground and if you followed along with the tips I shared and made an effort to write a daily blog post yourself, I’m sure you’re seeing a lot of progress and growth.  Let’s take a minute and look back at everything we’ve covered so far this month:  [Note- Link to each of your blog posts to make it easy for readers to go back and review.  It might be also worth adding a page of links into the...

We’ve been working hard and putting a lot of effort into our blog posts over the past month. Since we’re about to wrap up this 30 Day Blogging challenge [LINK to first post], and have been working hard, I thought I’d share something quick and easy with you today.  Let’s talk about adding videos to your blog posts. We’ll cover a couple of different questions you may have including why you would want to include them, how to record and include your own, and how to include other people’s videos in your posts.  Let’s start by talking about why embedding...