C. Blogging Communities and Method To Build Them

 Blogging community is located in a number of groups, cities, and even regional centers. They might talk about what their blogs are talk about but the whole aim is to socialize, makes friend, and shares idea. They usually connect to the people who have the same opinion on a certain issues that can go board and its way interesting for the blogger to blogger and people to blogs. In Indonesia, we do have kaskus.com, detik.com, indowebster.com and many more.

Kaskus.com, retrieved from google on 10 May 2011

                                            Detik.com, retrieved from google on 10 May 2011

                                            indowebster.com retrieved from google on 10 May 2011


How to build a blogging community
When you have created a blog, the next step besides driving traffic to your blog is to build a reader community. A blogging community is a foundation to being a successful blogger. Not only you are showing up yourself, your product or services to the world but here you are also creating a name and reputation for who you are and what you have to say or share with. There are a several step to build up a blogger community which are

Step 1
Read other blogs. Once you read people's blog you may get ideas or feel what your blog is going to be and what you like.Reading blogs can help you starting points for when you feel you have run out of things to discuss with your readers.

Step 2

Leave comments on other blogs. Whenever you read people's blog, it would be great if you dont just only read the blog but leave some comment, because it seems you are leaving a calling card for people to find your blog. But remember as long as you leave your blog URL in your comment, it gives people away to find your blog.

Step 3

Reply to your comments. When people leave some comment on your blog posts, they obviously want to know they have been heard. But give some simple respond to them like "Thanks for visiting my blog" that kind of thing

Step 4

List your blog in directories.List your blog in directories.

Step 5

Write often. Basically, most professional bloggers will recommend you to post more that once a day. By having a so many posts per day you are giving your readers with variety and a chance to keep them at your blog longer.

Step 6

Makes your posts entertaining. Providing some entertain post to your reader to make keep them to read your blog without getting bored of it.

Step 7

Start marketing your blog. there is a way to market your blog by giving a signature link to your blog on message boards and forum, or you can also put a signature link in your email address.

There is one blog Indonesia that i have been read is Kaskus.com. This community basically talk about politic, event happing, gossip, sports and so on.


Reference


'How to build blogging community', eHow, viewed 10 May 2011 <http://www.ehow.com/how_2152382_build-blogging-community.html>.