3 Simple Ways to Maintain Your Social Networking Activity If You Are Busy

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How is your social networking skills? Bloggers are known to be poor in marketing and social networking according to some people. To attract huge traffic to your blog does not depend solely on publishing a post. You need to involve in promoting your site and networking with other bloggers.

Reasons For Poor Social Networking Skills

Social networking with other bloggers include visiting other blogger’s blog, commenting on other blogs, interaction with your readers in your blog and retweeting and promoting other blogger’s post. All these are required in building a community and maintaining a relationship.

There are bloggers who simply just don’t care about social networking. They simply think that just by publishing quality content, their blog will become a success. Quality blog content is only the foundation of a successful blog, however you need to spice it up with visitors and other bloggers. That’s when social networking comes in. Some of the reasons for poor social networking skills are:

- No Time: I used to use it as an excuse. But you see, it’s just an excuse. If you are serious in creating a community, you will find time to do some social networking activities no matter what.

- Not Sociable: You are shy in nature and you don’t like any social networking. You need to change your mindset if require your blog to grow. Just imagine how much traffic you will attract if you start interacting with other people.

- No Schedule: One day you are leaving comments at many blogs, the next day you disappear and there is no social networking from you. You need to have a schedule to do posting, networking etc.

- Blogging is just a Hobby: You treat blogging as a hobby, it’s just a channel where you can voice out your opinions and thoughts. It’s like a diary to you. You don’t care about social networking and traffic to your blog.

- Too Lazy: The other reason is you are simply too lazy. This is due to your attitude and your focus how you want your blog to be.

3 Simple Ways To Maintain Your Social Networking Activity

Blogging is my passion. I am not  a full time blogger as i am holding a full time job. 2-3 hours is the time that i normally allocated to my blog everyday. Maximum is 4. Beside writing a post, i will spend the rest of my time visiting blogs, commenting and respond to comments within my blog. The time i have is not enough but i learnt how to manage the time properly to be consistently involve in social networking.

I use 3 simple ways to maintain my networking activities. If you are blogging in full time, the tips below may not be applicable but i hope you can find one which is helpful to you.

• Set a schedule

For those who regularly visit my blog, you should know my post frequency is around 2-3 days. It’s impossible for me to post daily as my time is mostly taken up by my work and family. Each day when it is the time to publish a post, i will spend most of my time writing. Social networking will be lesser.

When the day which i am not writing a post, i will spend the full 2-3 hours visiting blogs, commenting, login in Twitter and Facebook etc. I have a schedule set to do all this. By having a schedule, you will know how many blogs or bloggers you want to connect with especially if you can commit little time in blogging.

• Prioritize your blog visit

You may have noticed some bloggers can just be everywhere. You are able to find them commenting in every blogs you have visited. I don’t really expect you to do that if you are working or studying. What i normally do is to prioritize the blogs i need to visit and bloggers that i want to connect with.

My Google reader contains almost close to 40 blogs. I don’t comment in all of them though i do read every new post published. You can find me commenting and networking with bloggers who visited my blogs regularly. They are my priority if i am unable to connect with everyone in my readers lists. If you have the same situation like me, prioritize your visit and networking with those who you think close to.

• Connecting through email

For those blogs that you seldom leave comments or you have visitors from other niche, you can find some time to email a simple message to them. A simple message just to thank them for their support. It’s a good way to start a conversation and show them that you actually appreciate their visit and support. You will leave an impression if you directly email them. Though this does not apply to big blogs as they receive large amount of emails everyday. It can be a good way to promote return visitors too.

Conclusion

These are three simple ways that i use to maintain my networking with other bloggers due to my limited time allow for blogging. How many hours do you allocated to your blogs? Do you have any schedule on your social networking activities? If you have better ways, i would like to hear from you. Please kindly share it with us in the comment box.

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