This guest post is by Onibalusi YoungPrePro.com's.
I was looking to the sky a few days ago and what I saw made me see how organized even animals can be. I saw about 50 birds flying from a tree to another and by the time they returned, each had a stick in her mouth — they worked on building a House.
This taught me a very important lesson about blogging, and made me realize that every thing around us us to be a better blogger can learn.
If those birds could just work in groups to build their home, then what about our bloggers? Why can't we effectively use the power of collaboration to build of our blogs?
The truth is that the number of new bloggers are trying to build a successful blog single-handedly nowadays is breathtaking. We know that there are more than 152 million blogs in the blogosphere, but we just can't figure out how many successes — as far as we are concerned, the majority of online blogs are failures.
How we then stand out as bloggers? What can we do to encourage our blogs success rates, and our blogs to distinguish it from the 152 million other blogs in the blogosphere? The truth is that we are the answer to this puzzle that a gazillion times have heard, but we've really never considered it as that important.
The key is cooperation.
You've probably heard that you should work together to build a successful blog at least once, but why on earth would you even try? After all, you can praise for building a great blog only claim!
That power could be speed, power, or anything that involved. If you have a look at the case of the 50 birds that I talked about, you'll notice how easy these birds can build what House they want to build in a much shorter timeframe than if the work was done by one of them alone.
It would be difficult for you to kick start your blog, but the strength, cooperation and wisdom of 50 extra bloggers can not be compared. I know that it is almost impossible to get that many bloggers to you, to support, especially if you are very new. But the truth is that you don't need 50 bloggers to support you to build a successful blog — three bloggers work with you to the success of your blog will be a whole lot of difference.
A lot of people will have told you, it takes a lifetime to build a reputation, but do you know that you can build a great reputation in a matter of years with the right tactics?
By linking to the appropriate groups bloggers at the right time, you can easily build a successful blog without moving an inch. Sometimes all you need just the adoption of a successful blogger in your niche. Even if you're not the approval of an A-list blogger, get the approval of two or three bloggers on the same level if you have a whole lot of difference it will make.
The funny thing about getting people to support you is that you don't need a hundred people to support you before you succeed. You only need one or two targeted people.
We human beings are created in such a way that we can easily be influenced by things and people around us, and this to your advantage can use. If you can get the support and approval of two to three other bloggers in your niche, you can easily use that if social proof to get more bloggers to support you, and that approval of these two bloggers can mean the difference between readers think you're cool, or that you don't know what you're talking
When people hear about collaborating with other bloggers in their niche, is the first thing that they try to send an e-mail to a few bloggers asking them as friends or ask the blogger to establish a regular link exchange campaign with them. If that is what you are about to do, then you might as well forget it. Below are a few ways that you with other bloggers in your niche can work together.
We bloggers are one of the smartest people (okay, I'm a blogger and I'm baised — but my point is that we also have common sense), so we take note, when people do something for us.
If you send me a link to tell you today, and you tell me to tweet your post tomorrow, and you tell me to review your product next week, but I have not seen that you share my messages or do me a favor in the past two months, do you think I will do that for you? The next thing I will tell you is, "no, thanks, that is a great offer but I don't think it will work with my audience" — even if it will. But when you are "always" spreading the word about me and to tell people how great I am, even if I have a million followers and you only have one, I will like to spread the word to my followers about you.
When was the last time you sent an email to a blogger to thank them for their blog post? Just try to do it once or twice, and you'll notice that you will be able to request the assistance of that favorite blogger of yours.
We bloggers like it when people say good things about us. We like to be appreciated, and some of us even like to be flattered. Give us what we want will only bring you on our radars.
I'm not trying to say that you must email a blogger and tell him or her that they start your god — that will only increase of an additional flag and put you on the "Beware of list" for that blogger. The best thing to do is a simple and polite email, maybe Mark interesting points in one of their articles to Show the blogger that you really read their messages to send.
Although there are media such as Twitter and Facebook, I still think the best medium to use for this kind of contact is email. I know that Twitter might be the easiest way to get in touch with your favorite blogger, but that is also its weakness. A lot of people, but very few people use email thank you to send messages to bloggers (or at least little in comparison with Twitter). The end result is that sometimes before the blogger can take to your e-mail address, but because you don't really need a response, it's okay. And it's enough to make the blogger to notice you.
Which birds were helping each other.
We must do the same as a blogger.
You won't go far by trying to exploit your fellow bloggers for attention, or links, or anything else, so don't even try to go that route. It might work in the beginning, but it will end up biting you.
The best way to succeed in your efforts as a blogger does everything that you really do. When you make your efforts not only to contribute value to your readers, but also to your fellow bloggers focus, you will eventually get great results for it.
Onibalusi Bamidele is the founder of YoungPrePro.com, a blog where he teaches people How to write for traffic and money. Get his free eCourse 7 series on how to write a successful Online company to build
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