In the last six months, Twitter has rapidly become one of the Web’s hottest properties. It’s no surprise then, that bloggers are trying to take advantage of this growing medium by letting their readers easily share blog articles with their Twitter followers.

And it’s not just bloggers getting in on the Twitter marketing game. If, on Twitter, you follow any more than a couple hundred new media junkies, you’re likely to have come across somebody genuinely and humbly promoting any one of the many topics of Guy Kawasaki‘s ‘Alltop‘ Web site. Right now, Alltop seems to be picking up 30-50 links from Twitter every five minutes! That’s some seriously powerful word-of-mouth promotion!

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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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Yesterday, I spoke about how to get your guest post published on a pro blog. Today, I want to discuss what to do after your post has been published in front of those 30, 40 or 50 thousand subscribers.

Taking Advantage of Guest Blogging

The real benefit of guest blogging comes when you write several articles for one particular blog, or for a range of blogs with the same audience. The idea is to get your name in front of the same audience on a regular basis.

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Recently, I’ve been writing a lot of guest posts for high profile pro bloggers and each time I do I receive several emails asking me how I was able to write for such a well respected and large blog.

To some people, the process to get a guest post published on a large blog is quite obvious, but other people often believe high profile blogs are only open to the elite of the guest blogging world.

Here are my tips that have helped me get my articles published amongst several high profile blogs, including John Chow Dot Com.

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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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