We all know that social networking is here to stay and that it is vital for success as a blogger. In this post I want to highlight the best established and start up communities that are exclusively for bloggers. These blog communities provide a lot of benefits for bloggers like : traffic, links, visibility to increase your branding and the opportunity to interact with people who share your passion.
Blog Engage – I wanted to start with Blog Engage simply for the fact that it is currently my favorite blogging social community. Over the last 6 months or so, Blog Engage has emerged as a major force in the blog-o-sphere. They continue to add new features like the recent addition the blogging club. You can submit your recent posts and if the community votes you up you will find yourself on the front page with the benefit of a do follow link and a nice flow of traffic. This is not the biggest blog community but it is the tightest and friendliest I have come across.
MMO Social Network – This is a brand new blogging community that caters to blogs in the blogging and mmo niche. I just joined and I am excited about becoming active within this community. This community is similar to Blog Engage in that you can submit your articles and add a vote button to your blog. It you get enough votes you will get to page one with a do follow link as well. This site also gives you the ability to add friends and network with those that are serious about making money online.
Bloghology – This social networking site has a lot of potential but not sure if many people know about it yet. The best way I can describe it is by saying it is like Facebook for Bloggers.
Entrecard – Although Entrecard primarily functions as an ad network for bloggers, there is certainly a social networking component to the site. I will not get into all the particular about Entrecard as most people already know about them and if not you can read this post:
Top reasons to promote your blog with Entrecard
Blog Catalog – Blog Catalog is the biggest and most recognized social community for bloggers and is one of the those sites that most bloggers try out when they first start out and then move on. Don’t get me wrong you can get some traffic from BC but it take a lot of effort. I guess it is like anything else, the more you put into it the more you will get out.
These are the 5 blogging communities that I am currently a part of. Which ones are you involved with?
Which one do you like best?
If you would like to connect on any of these networks, send me an invite. My username is tycoon blogger on all of them.
Thank you Dan for your great support, it’s an honer to be listed here!
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2, 3, 4, 5 will try out
Currently dealing with Mixx and Propeller. There are so many people.. so it definitely should take some time to become visible.
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good list. I think I’m going to try some of them out. I’ve been working with a few others but they don’t seem to be doing much.
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I use blog engage and blog catalog. And both of them give me a great traffic — especially blog engage.
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Great post, thanks for a list of communities to try out.
I currently use Blog Engage and MMO Social Network.
I have seen a lot of traffic on Blog Engage, not so much on MMO. But I am new to MMO and haven’t really figured the system out yet. Look forward to learning and using this system. I also plan to join Mixx.
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Blog Engage is the best! I just signed up for Hesham’s MMO too (I believe in supporting my local bloggerhood and I read his blog(s) so…)
After signing up I was disappointed that there isn’t a simple plugin to add the vote button, hopefully that is in the works though…
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Hey Dan,
BlogEngage at the top exactly where it should be – and great that Hesham’s new site is at no. 2 …. joining him there has been on my list-of-things-to-do for too long!
Cheers
Will
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As a relatively new blogger, I found this post very helpful. I found information regarding social networking communites for bloggers that was completely new to me. Thanks for a great post
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It is a nice list of social bookmarking sites. I am very happy that i am using four among this. I am not using entrecard. Definitely i will try it…
Thanks for this list.
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Great blog that you have both in design and layout.
The autliy of information for those wishing to utlisie social networking is always second to none here on your blog.
Mark McCulloch
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Nice post,
My favorite and the one i Get most traffic from is Blog Catalog.
The worst in my opinion is Yahoo’s My blog log.
It is vital to build a visable profile online and these tips will help, thanks.
Paul.
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All in one place; love these posts!
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Thank you for listed all those nice social network sites. I am already using all those social networking sites. I recently joined Hesham’s MMO social network site.
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Blog Engage is my top fav and Entry Card is the last! I thought it was dead already!
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Social networking has been around us for quite a long time and now there is a change in the trends. Global recession is what people point out as a reason that is degrading the popularity of the social networks. The real fact is that social networking is headed towards a different path.
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The only one I don’t belong to is Bloghology and out of all of them at the moment I prefer BlogEngage
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You think you could turn off that automatic email I keep getting every time I comment here?
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Blogcatalog is good and BE is also working well for me. I have never tried other networks. Entrecard is useless as it increases a bounce rate of my website.
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I only recently signed up for blogengage. It is great to see so many communities just for bloggers!
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Among all the social networking site that you listed above, I like BlogEngage. I’ve been using it for quite some times and I found it really useful. It’s a dofollow social networking site and it does bring me some referral traffic when I submitted my blog post over there.
MMO Social Network is a new social networking site from Hesham, he notified me about that in email before. I’m going to take a look on that.
Regards,
Lee
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It’s great! thanks very much.
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Thanks for giving such wonderful list of communities for bloggers.I didn’t know about entrecard but i must say blogengage is a great community for bloggers.
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Great post. I do use blog engage and entrecard on some of my other websites. It does indeed bring good traffic.
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How did I miss Blog Engage, that was worth the price of admission here for sure.
Blog Catalog has done some amazing things for page rankings on our sites, but is no where near the community Blog Engage is.
See you there!
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Great list. There are a few on here that I wasn’t aware of.
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It is always great to share the innovative ideas with others on our demand.That is the main way for the people to know about the good types of techniques to equip.
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I like BlogEngage. I’ve been using it for quite some times and I found it really useful. It’s a dofollow social networking site and it does bring me some referral traffic when I submitted my blog post over there.
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Social media sites are very helpful to generate traffic on blogs i’m a new blogger. so presently i have my digg, mixx and propeller A/C thanks to share this good list of social networking sites.
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Someone using my computer is doing things I don’t want them to do.(Porn, Social networking) I blocked the porn but does any one know how to block the social networking sites?
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You have to get a firewall program and block the websites. Try Zone Alarm it is easiest one I can think of to setup.
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Well as for best mobile social networks or chat, that is somewhat personal preverence but a lot of companies are in this space now that are somewhat larger…..
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I would suggest asking your prospective users. Ask them what they want or need and can’t find anywhere else. This will almost guarantee an audience because they are the ones that know.
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A very good post. Thanks for the information. I should start have accounts and be an active member of these sites for better visibility. Do post these kinda of articles and lists. It seems to be very useful.
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This list of social networking community sites was a great help for us we can easily access to it.
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I love BlogCatalog. You can easily find people to network with.
-Kai Lo
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It is a nice list of social bookmarking sites. I am very happy that i am using four among this. I am not using entrecard. Definitely i will try it…
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I was on IgoUgo for a while, but then I noticed that whenever I wanted to travel anywhere I couldn’t find any useful information on my destination aside from hotel advertisements or simple descriptions that really aren’t useful at all. So I stopped going there and don’t recommend it.
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Very good list of websites. I’ve already have an account on blogengage. Is very useful to promote your projects.
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I have never heard of Blog engage – looks like a great community looks like it is time that I become a part of it
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I do have a blog but i am not a good blogger though but this list will really help me a lot.thank you so much.
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We do have some blogs and they are kind of official. Is it ok to get involved in these blogging communities? I personally dont see any business benefits.
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What’s lacking in Social Networking sites? and what are some of the newer cooler ones out there to check out?
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