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“Look at me! Look at me! I’m over here! Come and join me.”

Is this you? Do you constantly push your blog to your followers? Do you constantly shout at others for attention to stand out above the crowd? Do you scream for affection, for affiliation, for an audience? You probably do. Most of the blogosphere does.

When blogging was first invented, it was used as a medium for every day Joe’s and Joanne’s to share their thoughts, their feelings, their news and their mews. Back then, it wasn’t a seven figure number trying to make a seven figure living. It was a select few, trying to earn nothing, but try new.

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I discussed yesterday about how important your reputation is in order to build a successful blog, so today I want to discuss actual methods to build that reputation.

Guest Posts

I still remember when guest posting started to become popular amongst the blogging crowd. The first person I saw who truly took advantage of guest posting was a young lady called Jane May. She came on the blogging scene very quickly and back in 2007 wrote some of the first guest posts on John Chow’s blog. She wrote a series of excellent blog posts and quickly became a popular name with John’s audience. Soon thereafter, she sold her own blog for what I’m sure was a very nice figure.

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Commenting is such an important part of blogging. It’s what often separates the blogosphere and other more traditional forms of media. And while we all set out in the blogosphere to receive visitors to our blogs, it’s comments, or the lack of them, that really worries us in those early months. “Why is nobody commenting on my blog?” is a frequently asked question in any blogosphere circle. Far more frequent than “How do I get more visitors?” and other such questions. Blogging is, after all, community based and connecting with other people and seeing them connect with us is what often drives blog authors.

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Why do we subscribe to blogs? This question is one I’ve been thinking a great deal about in recent times. As bloggers and blog readers, we so often go through blogs and blindly press the subscribe button without thinking about why we’re doing so.

Looking down my list of feeds, I seem to have some sort of connection with each and every blogger. For some of the blogs, I speak with the blogger on a more personal connection during blogger meetups, conferences and email/instant message.

For others, I can simply relate to their story. The story they so eloquently write on their about page.

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