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Beginner Blogger – How to launch your blog (Getting noticed)

In our last post we discussed, “How to launch your new blog (The Pre-Launch).” In this post, we need to take this a bit further and touch on some activities most of us simply overlook and don’t even consider.  Remember, we are trying to separate ourselves from the crowd of other bloggers out there.

We need to take the next step.  What we need to do is start building a direct relationship with some of these other bloggers we found in our last post.

When I first started blogging I found most bloggers who I was reading and getting involved in the conversation with were more then happy to talk.  For the most part, most bloggers are more then willing to help out someone thinking about blogging and someone just starting out blogging.

However, you need to live by this one very simple and important rule — Always give before you ever expect to receive anything in return.

Getting Noticed Now

Here is a list of activities you need to do right now to get noticed:

Email other bloggers. Remember, don’t be a pest.  And don’t email them asking for help or to say hi.  Give them something of value.  Email them to contribute something, give some advice, or offer to help.  If you come across a breaking story or idea in your niche, email it to other bloggers to let them know.

You will be amazed at how much this will be appreciated by these other bloggers.  I get emails weekly from people offering post ideas and other information.  I love it.  While I have a folder full of post ideas on my computer, I love it when someone sends me an idea I may not have thought of.

Offer to do a guest post. And this applies even if you have never done a blog post or have your blog up and going. I know from my own personal experience, I love it when someone offers to do a guest post on my blog. Not only does it give my readers a different voice to listen to, it gives me a break from writing. And, the readers of the blog you might guest post on appreciate it too.

Blog readers like getting a different perspective on things. Drop a blogger you read an email and make an offer of doing a guest post for them. And remember one rule you should live by as a guest poster, make this your very best work. If you are lucky enough to do a guest post on a blog with high traffic, this will get you noticed and you want to put your best foot forward.

A wonderful tool you should grab is Chris Garrett’s ebook “Guest Posting for Quality LInks and Targeted Traffic.”

Use social media. You would have to have your head stuck in the sand not to know there are social media tools out there right now.  And you need to be using those you are comfortable using.  ?However, you need to do more.

I firmly believe twitter is the easiest social networking tool out there.  Yes, there are others such as Facebook.  But, twitter is easy to start and easy to use.  The key to twitter is to ignore the question they ask, “What’s happening?”.  You should be using twitter as a conversation tool.  An engagement tool.  And a way to get you and your blog and/or business noticed.

I spend a lot of time posting about twitter and you can visit those post for more information.  For now, I want to spend just a few moments discussing how you can use twitter to get noticed by other bloggers.

What we need to do is use it to get noticed by the bloggers you are following and reading.Take advantage of the twitter apps you have available to you to add value to your tweets and get noticed by other bloggers. You are going to be spending time reading blogs in your niche. You can use twitter to tell your followers what you are reading. And you can use twitter to promote those blogs you are reading. If there was only one twitter app I would recommend you use to accomplish this it would be MarketMeSuite.

One very easy way to tell the world what you are reading and in the process get the bloggers some exposure is to make sure you “retweet” their post.  Most, if not all blogs now implement a retweet button of some sort. Use it when you are reading these post.

Not only are you providing value to your followers. You are giving a feed and link to the blogger you are reading on twitter. That blogger is going to notice this if they are using other twitter apps to follow what is being said about them on twitter.

If you are following some of those bloggers on twitter, and you should be, when they post a tweet that is interesting or when they tweet about a new blog post on their blog, do a retweet in your twitter tool and send a tweet out to your followers. You are giving value to your followers. And you are again helping out that blogger by getting them more exposure on twitter. Chances are these bloggers you are doing this for will soon be following you and engaging in your own twitter stream. Don?t overlook the power and benefits of twitter just because it has a funny name.

In real life. If you get the chance to go to a meetup, tweetup or a conference where other bloggers hang out, do it.  There is nothing better then actually meeting in person some of these people you are spending time getting to know online.  And it is so much fun to sit down and visit.  Putting a face to the name and to the blog.  You will find these bloggers very approachable and guess what, they will stop to visit.

Final Thoughts

Getting noticed by other bloggers has many advantages to you as a new blogger.  From aiding in getting you traffic to your new blog to getting a link from other bloggers.  And best of all, getting noticed by other bloggers now, will sometimes turn into a lasting relationship and even a friendship.

Take some time to leave a comment below with other ways you know of to get noticed.  Let’s keep the conversation going.

And to make the FTC happy. Some of the links in this post are affiliate links.  Yes, I do make money if you buy the products I recommend.

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Published by: Grant Griffiths

Full post as published by Blawg for Profit on October 05, 2010 (boomark / email).