According to Anthony from www.thetravelart.com, a blogging community is exactly that – a community. Basically, a few people with similar interests, views and passion would gather together for an occasional meet-up. Having a blogging community can increase your readership, and therefore your credibility as well, because you are no longer writing for yourself, but for other people as well.
How to build a community on your blog on your own? (Darren Rowse, 2008)- Take the lead and be the community that you want your readers to be – readers follow the lead of bloggers in how they’ll interact with each other.
- Ask questions to increase interaction in your blog.
- Give readers something to do on your blog, like trying out a new restaurant. You could even have a column where readers can be a guest blogger, giving advices to each other.
- Link your reader’s blogs. Readers actually appreciate you taking an interest in their blogs too.
- Answer reader questions – avoid ignoring questions. Readers actually appreciate it when you take notice of them.
- Get your readers noticed. Celebrate your readers publicly on the blog. This will also help increase more readership.
- Create projects where readers can participate in. The more active they are on your blog, the more loyal they’ll be.
References:
- Darren Rowse, 2008, How To Build Community On Your Blog, online, retrieved on 2 October 2009, from http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/04/26/how-to-build-community-on-your-blog/
- Blogs and Community – Launching A New Paradigm For Online Community, online, retrieved on 2 October 2009, from http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community
- Anthony, 2009, What Is A Blogging Community, online, retrieved on2 October 2009, from http://www.thetraveltart.com/what-is-a-blogging-community/
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