The Top 5 Reasons to Join a Blog Network
by Steve RemingtonMay 7, 2007
Community – One of the first reasons most people join a blog network is simply because of community. There are always people in the Network looking to not only help each other out but just get to know each other. Here at Skinny Moose Media we sometimes don’t always talk about blogging and there have been some good off-topic conversations. Of course we are always talking and brainstorming about how to make things better, we can always rely on each other for conversations based on a number of different things. And how hard is it to just throw up a blog and get an instant sense of community? It takes time and there is nothing wrong with it but Skinny Moose Media already has an ongoing, new, and exciting community of people who are genuine.
Search Engine Optimization – Adding a blog to a network, or joining one, can really help when it comes to Search engine results. Our goal as a Network is become found through search results and we have been having some good performance. When you join up your blog becomes linked immediately to an entire community of blogs and it will not only be found through links but Search engines favor blogs and websites that have some type of relevancy such as those who have incoming links.
Traffic – One of the greatest parts of joining a Network is seeing traffic almost immediately. When you become part of a community and your network launches your blog, you will be given initial readership. It is your job from there to keep up that traffic and work together to continue to build it. The other thing to keep in mind is that as the network grows so will you, as you are part of it. So traffic is something a network can generate more of, which most individual blogs sitting out in cyberspace alone will have a more difficult time finding it.
Increased Revenue Potential – It is difficult to start new blogs and get the revenue one desires. The potential to make more money by joining a blog network is that much greater. Not only from a boost in traffic or better search engine results, but because there is a desire for advertisers to seek out Networks and not individual blogs. Networks provide a variety of benefits that individual blogs can’t, and, in turn, will then benefit all the blogs in the network.
For instance, Outside Hub a marketplace that enables advertisers, publishers, and ad networks to efficiently trade media, and in turn allows blog networks to earn revenue at the same time offering advertisers highly targeted readership. Outside Hub can affectively sell advertising to Networks which will benefit all the bloggers in the community.
Expertise/Administrative Work – Though you may be an expert in what you blog about, blog networks are experts in what they do too. And by joining heads you can become a powerful force. Think of all the Administration work that the network will do for you and all you, as a blogger, really needs to do is write blog posts, and worry about promoting and networking with others in your niche. So by joining a blog network you can leave the administrative work up to them and the blogging up to you. For those who work full or part time, this will give you more time to do the writing and less time fiddling with technical issues and administrative work.
Steve Remington
President/CEO
Skinny Moose Media
Update: This article is part of a Problogger writing project.
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Thank you for the great reasons you gave. I have a small advertising network with around ten blogs where I place ads too. Lately, the need to formalize the network arises but I have to hurdle issues such as blog independence, co-ownership, among others.
what the different between blog network and blog community?
Janette, for co-ownership networks what kind of hurdles do you face? I am curious.
alamster, good question and there probably should be no difference, only that there are many types of communities and one type would be a blog network
Does that make any sense?
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Being a new blogger, i found out the hard way the importance of joining a blog network.
They have a lot of different benefits both for the blogger and for the community. Both of them experience lots of traffics and hits.
Nice post!
If you have time, why don’t you drop by my post:
http://mobileko.blogspot.com/2007/05/snatch-top-5-tips-on-how-to-be.html
It’s also an entry for the problogger top 5- group writing project. ^^ Goodluck to us all!
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Can you recommend any quality blog networks, particularly those for tech blogs?
I applied to 9rules a while back, but haven’t heard back since(they process applications very slowly)
Techie blogs, you may want to try b5media.
http://www.b5media.com
They have many categories.
nice post..i’m a fan of blog networks myself. trying to start my own travel network, and it’s a bit harder then I thought.. nice work
I have a post up at http://luxuryglobetrotting.com if you’re interested.
Thanks Nick for stopping in. Yes, it is a lot harder than one would think. It is a full time job. Good luck with yours.
Came here from Probloggers Top 5 contest.
Good post Steve. Just missed some links to good Blog Networks though. Maybe you can also write a post about the Top 5 Blog Networks?
Anyway, your post is in my Top 5 top5 entries for Darrens Top 5 Group Writing Project.
Yeah, because we are hunting and fishing we tend to get overlooked. The niche is a tough one. Thanks for placing me in your top 5. That’s great!
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Great article, I didn’t know that there was a hunting network out there. I will subscribe to your feed. I am an advid hunter/blogger. I also found your article from problogger – just so you know -
Cool! Yep we are here. We have been around for less than a year and are really starting to take off now. We have about 4 blogs going up this week still.
I see you are from Canada? We have several Canadian blogs
Any tips on finding good blog networks? Any particular search engines to check out? Or a good list?
Thanks!
J-Ro, I probably should have prepared a list but to tell you the truth the list I usually use is over 6 months old and hasn’t been updated. I did a Google Search for Blog Network List and still couldn’t find much. I think we should seek out or find someone who can provide us with a good up to date list of them. Why I am having trouble finding a good list, I don’t know!!
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Great Top 5 post… I hadn’t thought much about the benefits of joining a network, but all your reasons are good reasons to do so. I’ll see if I can find a niche network I fit into… cross between entrepreneurship/business philosophy & web tech.
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Do i have to be a blog to join the netowkr? WHat if I just have a site? Do you provide the ads?
Thx
jake
Jake, we have never provided ads for other websites. It might be something to consider but haven’t spent much time thinking about it to be honest.
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