Many new bloggers have wrong ideas about blogging. They think setting up a blog and updating it would bring a lot of readers to their blog which is 100% false. If you post something on your blog and hide somewhere under a blanket, no human is going to find you and the things you post on your blog.
Being a blogger, you must always connect with other bloggers. Many people say the best ways to make friendship with other bloggers are by commenting on their blogs, writing some awesome guest posts for them and being an active reader.
Learn how to increase comments on your blog.
Apart from doing those things, you can also network with other bloggers by joining different online blogging communities available out there. I have created a list of top online blogging communities for bloggers to promote their blogs and network with other bloggers.
Top Blogging Communities To Promote Your Blog
1) Bizsugar
Bizsugar allows you to share your posts and gives them online visibility according to the number of votes they receive. Visit it now.
2) Blog Engage
Blog Engage is a social bookmarking site where you can discover, vote and discuss interesting things. The downside of Blog Engage is that it costs around 20$ initially to register a standard account, but you can get lots of referral traffic. Read Blog Engage complete review now.
3) Bloggers
Bloggers is an online community actively used by millions of bloggers. Visit it now.
4) Blogster
Blogster is a free online blogging community. Create, Comment, Share, and promote your blog. Visit it now.
5) Blokube
Blokube allows you to submit your Blog Articles that would be reviewed and will be promoted by the admin or readers to the main page. Visit it now.
6) Fuelmyblog
On FuelMyBlog, you can find some great stuffs. You can also share your posts there, and get lots of post ideas. Visit it now.
7) Indiblogger
Indiblogger is a community for Indian bloggers. You can find thousands of Indian bloggers here. Visit it now.
9) Gather
Join Gather to connect with thousands of different writers and share your perspective. This is also a great place to get post ideas. Visit it now.
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Don’t just republish your posts on these communities and sit idle. Encourage other bloggers by commenting on articles that they post.
Also take a look at Einstine Muki’s list of 23 actively used Facebook group for bloggers. You can also use Facebook to get hundreds of referral traffic to your blog and to make friendship with other bloggers.
Did you find this list helpful? How many of them have you joined? Please let me know in the form of comments.
Hey Thejas,
Thanks for sharing this list. I’m already active on most of the communities. However, Blogster and Indiblogger are new to me. I’ll sure jump on board.
I’m excited about it
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February 6, 2013 / 2:59 PM
Oh! Thanks for mentioning my site on this post bro. I’m really grateful
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February 6, 2013 / 3:00 PM
@Enstine Muki, I found that list helpful and that’s why I mentioned it here to help other people reading this post.
February 6, 2013 / 3:05 PM
very nice article bro thanks for sharing such good info with us
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February 6, 2013 / 6:48 PM
Thank you @Anis for leaving your first comment on SayBlogger.
February 6, 2013 / 7:07 PM
Good blog post Thejas. Useful links for people to follow. Have read several of your posts and am impressed by what you’re sharing.
February 6, 2013 / 7:59 PM
@Susan Collini, Thank you very much. I hope you would be back to SayBlogger when I post more interesting stuffs.
February 6, 2013 / 8:51 PM
Good list Thejas.Knew only 3-4 of them.Thanks.
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February 7, 2013 / 2:20 PM
Hey Abhijit. Good to see you commenting on SayBlogger. Thank you! Hope you would visit us again.
February 7, 2013 / 3:13 PM
Hello
this is one of the fabulous post ..thanks for sharing
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You’re welcome @Mohammad Ismail, you can expect more such awesome posts in future.
February 8, 2013 / 5:22 PM
Hi Thejas!
Great list. I use “Bloggers” quite a bit, but apart from that, I don’t use any of the others. I’ll have to check these out.
By far the best communities to get involved in are on social media though. I have been able to meet tons of great bloggers in Facebook groups, LinkedIn groups or just by seeing peoples Tweets.
Keep up the great work
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February 8, 2013 / 11:13 PM
Hello Matt,
Good to see you here. Yeah I agree with you! My blog receives plenty of traffic from social media (Twitter sends the most).
Many bloggers actively participate in the communities mentioned above, so these are some great ways to engage with other bloggers.
Thank You!
February 9, 2013 / 9:34 AM
hey tejas,
I will also use this strategy to for my blogs.somehow nice way to deal with this kind of situation.
I appreciate and thankful for your information.
Good going Tejas
February 11, 2013 / 11:00 PM
Hello,
Yeah these are some great places to engage with other top bloggers.
You’re welcome!
Cheers for the comment!!
February 12, 2013 / 8:29 AM
Nice post ,thanks for sharing a useful list !
I am currently active on Bloggers but after their latest re-design i have not been using it as much so i will be checking out some of the other blogging communities in this list.
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February 13, 2013 / 2:14 AM
Hey Phil,
Bloggers is still under construction. I’ve joined Bloggers already but I’m not able to connect my blog to it as it is still under construction.
I think you should try BizSugar. It’s sending me some referral traffic.
Cheers for the comment.
February 13, 2013 / 11:55 AM
Good list. Seems like there is an endless supply of blog arenas to share and learn.
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February 19, 2013 / 3:12 PM
Hi Thejas,
thank you for sharing the overview of these communities.
Some of them I had not heard of.
You made a great point in your introduction about why it is important to be part of a community one of which is being found online.
I have belonged to the Bizz Blogging Buzz community for almost 2 years and I love the way it is build on the principle of reciprocity and has a great point system built into it which provides and incentive to participate.
Thanks again for your post!
Cheers,
Yorinda
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February 23, 2013 / 2:41 AM
Hello Yorinda,
Thank you, I had not heard of Bizz Blogging Buzz community. Thank you for mentioning it in your comment. Gonna try it soon!
Cheers!
~Thejas
February 23, 2013 / 12:05 PM
Thejas, First Quarto is another popular online community for bloggers. Here too blogger rate each others articles and connect with other bloggers.
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February 28, 2013 / 10:46 AM
Oh! I didn’t know about Quarto. Thank you for mentioning it and I’m going to try that soon.
Cheers for the comment.
February 28, 2013 / 11:14 AM
Hi Thejas,
Thanks for sharing this list. It is extremely useful.
March 1, 2013 / 3:15 PM
Hello! Thank you for the comment. The link to the FirstQuarto blogging community is firstquarto.com.
March 1, 2013 / 6:34 PM
Hi Thejas,
I’ve been On BlogEngage, Bizsugar, Blokube, these are some awesome blogging communities where I found all like-minded bloggers to build strong relation.
These are social communities where we can promote content to get traffic and backlinnks.
Thanks for sharing!
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May 1, 2013 / 3:34 PM
Hey Bashir,
I’m on all of those as well and I’ve made a lot of blogging friends there.
Cheers for the comment
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May 1, 2013 / 4:21 PM
Great post … i need traffic for my blog…mention lots of site that i never ever heard yet…thanks for the infos !!
May 7, 2013 / 10:52 AM