Blog Networks have become popular for a good reason. By collaborating with other bloggers, either as independent bloggers or as company bloggers, blog syndication becomes a lot easier giving you a wider readership as well as more incoming links.
Joining blog networks is not always easy though since many of the bigger and more established networks do not just let anyone join with new bloggers’ only able to jump in on the band wagon after being invited by a member blogger. There are even blog networks that do not allow new bloggers to join at all and simply encourage participation from non-member bloggers in the comment section. Although networks like this won’t give you much exposure in terms of writing by commenting regularly on such blog networks you can hope to gain much too since other readers will probably check your blog out. Despite the difficulty in joining the more established blog networks there is really no dearth of networks to join since there are plenty of newer ones that are looking for new bloggers to join them. However, when signing up to join newer blog networks make sure that they satisfy the following criteria:
- They are composed of reputable bloggers – You do not want to be associated to spammy, low quality bloggers.
- The network generates a healthy amount of traffic – Otherwise the network (hence you) won’t really make any money.
- The payment model used makes sense – The network might make money but will you be properly compensated for it?
- Their reputation regarding payouts is good – Will the money reflected on your account actually reach you?
Originally posted on October 1, 2007 @ 12:04 pm
