Collaboration with other bloggers creates professional relationships you can use to achieve your goals. A massive 80% of executives from Fortune 500 companies believe social collaboration is key. Whether you need to reach a new audience or add a fresh voice to your website, collaborating with other bloggers is always a good option. A lack of good connections can be dangerous to your business.
Connecting with other people in your line of work can happen in a number of ways. In this guide, you are going to learn about some of the ways you can collaborate with other bloggers.
Mastermind Groups
It's also a fantastic place to get ideas for new and exciting content.
Guest Posting
While this has lost its SEO benefits, it's still good enough to enhance the user experience. Avoid thinking about guest posting in terms of SEO and start thinking about it in terms of how you can add something interesting for your audience.
Group Projects
Crowdsourcing
It also happens that bloggers love to share these posts because they are both helpful and self-promotional.
Group Pinterest Boards
Gather together a few bloggers in similar niches. Make the group board and create a pinning rotation. When it's your turn, make sure the description is rich with keywords.
Make a List Post with Your Favorite Bloggers
Some of these bloggers may even catch wind of your post and connect with you, as a result. You are placing yourself in a great position to make friends because you are giving the gift of publicity without any expectation of a return.
Link Party
This is where a team of bloggers share each other's work through all available platforms. It can multiply exposure many times over and lead to you introducing others to brand new audiences while they do the same for you.
Take note that this isn't an SEO move because Google has heavily hammered backlinking. Instead, it's a way to garner a new audience through social media channels and through the sites of your fellow bloggers. It can allow lots of small bloggers to bring together their collective exposure to accomplish big things.
Relationships are not Born Overnight
Creating solid relationships between bloggers isn't something that can be accomplished quickly. It requires trust between two parties. They don't want to associate themselves with someone who is any less honorable than themselves. Trust is hard to get in blogging and nobody wants to compromise that by associating with the wrong people.
Keep working away and after a few collaborations together you will soon have a professional network you crave.
