How To Develop Relationship With Your Blog Readers

It is always important to increase relationship with your blog readers. I wrote a post few days back on How to increase interactivity in your blog. In that post, I wrote on how you can make your visitors to take any action in your blog. This post will be on how to build good relationship with your blog readers and what you can do to make the relationship better.

Blogging is a good way to get friends and to tell the truth, I have got many friends. The best people who you can be friend with online are your blog readers, commentators and those who add your post to social sites. So you know whom you can be friend with and you can go and try to start a good relationship with them. Here are few things that you can do:

1. Comment On Their Blog
This is the easiest step and you can win many friends by just making a comment in their blogs. I try to comment on the blogs that link to me and also in the blogs of the people who make comments in my blog. Even a single ‘thank you’ can make wonders. From today, why not visit the blogs of those who comment in your blog and tell them thank you and also make a comment in their blog?



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2. Have A Chat With Them
Having small chats in Google Talk or Skype a help the relationship grow. I have seen many A-list bloggers chat with new bloggers in chat clients. Though this will use some of your valuable time, you will get more than what you spend. You might get a really good friend with a 10 minute of chat. I don’t stay online in chat client very often if I have college. But on holidays I’m online most of the time and talk to people.

3. Help Them By Promoting Their Articles
This is a good way to get friends too. You can promote the articles of your blog readers or commentators. You can offer them a back link from your blog. You can link to their articles in your Sunday links or anything similar. You can even mention their articles in appropriate places in the guest posts you make. One more way of promoting their articles is by giving it a stumble or digg or del.icio.us or something similar. I suggest you not to promote articles which have no good content. But you can promote their good articles. I have got more than a dozen of good friends from social websites. You can get friends easily from social websites or even make your blog readers as your good friends by helping them with social websites.



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Building relationship with readers is important. To be successful, you should have friends and people who can help you at the time of failure. So start making your blog readers and commentators as your friends today. Just stop by their blog and say a ‘HI’. Talk to them when you are free (and of course when they are free). It is not easy to make new friends but once they become your friends they will be helpful to you (and you can in turn help them). Take the first step today and the rest of the steps will be easy. You will have a bunch of friends by the end of this month. Have you made any of your blog reader or commentator as your friend? What do you do to maintain good relationship? Have you been approached any time by any blogger in whose blog you made a comment?