Social networking is something which let us find like minded people from all parts of the world who likes what we do and who are doing the same thing like us.
Social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter and Google plus gives us the opportunity to connect and share with the people on the earth, but have you ever thought of creating your own blog like a social networking blog in which you treat a post as a separate profile and your friends are commenting and sharing it who are trying to interact?, There are many advantages of treating a blog like a networking blog.
Why to treat a blog like a social networking blog:
Let’s discuss about some advantages of treating a blog like a social networking blog. Do you know how much time are you spending on Facebook a day by reading, liking, sharing and commenting on peoples update? or how many hours a day are you spending on Twitter?, You can’t figure out the time you spend on these websites because these websites became a part of your life. But instead of wasting your time on Facebook and Twitter if you spend that time in your blog by adding more value to it, reading the comments and replying them and building a relationship with your readers than you can easily take your blog to the next level.
But please don’t take me wrong. I’m not saying to completely close social networking websites. I’m using social media websites for my blog promotion and some other personal reasons, but I’m not spending more than one hour on these websites.
Another reason of treating your blog as a social networking blog is the that if you treat your blog readers as a friend than soon these readers will become a loyal reader of your blog. They will subscribe and always visit your blog.
How to treat a blog like a social networking blog:
Commenting is the quickest way to make your blog a networking blog. If you reply to the comment of your reader in a friendly way than they’ll feel that they are among themselves.
You should give the people a community on your blog where they can share their views and ask their problems. Your main target should be giving a social networking experience to readers on your blog.
So what’s your views? Are you agree with me on we should spend our time on our blog instead of wasting it to social networking websites?
I think you are on the right track, however, I think the better solution is to leverage them both. Draw them in via social or digital media and then keep them on your site with a great commenting system
u must share your blog post on social networking site like facebook its give u huge traffic to your blogs
I think your readers are the treasure you have. And a treasure is always valued. Making your blog a conversational one will make the atmosphere a relaxed one. The relationship between you and your readers will grow. Answering all the questions of your readers will show you care about them. One thing i admire about you is that you sometimes create post for a particular question. It’s is a good approach.
Thanks so much for the nice words Iteire. Loyal readers are as you said the treasure for everyone.
Creating a post for particular questions increases the interaction with readers, that is what I do it.
Hi Ehsan,
I do also think that Facebook is wastage of, we should spend our time on our blog instead of Facebook.
Thanks.
Liked the post.
By creating activity and allowing for open communication,
then it help build a thriving community people attract, more people,
and so nice growth happens.
@Simmeon Thanks for stopping by?
Hi Ehsan, I think you are absolutely right. I was thinking about this the other day. The best is to bring the discussion to your blog.
It is easier said than done though. I think it is a struggle to get the traffic going but once you do, loyal people will continue to visit your blog over and over again.
We do spend a lot of time on other (social media) sites.
I agree David. If we spend time on our blog than we can easily increase loyal readers on our blog and take it to the next level.
Thanks for the comment David.
Great Post. I too believe same that we should be more focused to bring traffic from social media sites to our blog. Keep up the good work
Hi Harneet, Glade to know you like my post. Thanks for the comment!
Yes your pretty right! But never forget social media this is the backbone of the SEO, and nowadays Google giving more priority to social media than link building. Try to build a huge network of friends at twitter, fb, and at all other social media sites for making a blog brand.
Zaheer
BlogingInfo.Com
Hello Zaheer,
Social media is something we can’t leave but It will be great if we connect with our friends of social media websites in our blog.
I’m glade you liked the post!
I think they go hand in hand myself Ehsan but I do agree that you should be spending more time driving traffic to your blog and then interacting with your readers.
For instance if your Facebook profile and Twitter account were shut down tomorrow, were you able to bring a lot of your friends and followers over to your blog so that you could start building a relationship with them on the one actual piece of real estate that you do own? If you have a self hosted blog that is.
Social media gives us the ability to meet more people but your main goal should be to get them to your blog.
Very well done and thanks for sharing this topic with us.
~Adrienne
Hi Adrienne, Firstly Glade for your comment!
That was my point on the post. We must struggle to bring people from other social networking websites to our blog in that time which we are spending on those websites and build a better relationship with them.
Social networking is something that can be done in our own blog.
Thanks again Adrienne!
Hi Ehsan,
social networking is very important. But we must also create something new, not only sharing, retweeting and liking other things and websites
BTW, you changed your blog layout… It seems very similar to mine
BR, Chris
I agree with you Chris, we should do something new to social networking websites, But these days peoples spending almost all of their time on social media sites, If we give that time to our blog by connecting and building relationship with our readers than we can easily take our blog to the next level.
Yeah I have changed my blog layout and made it as yours, but there’s a lot of changes between yours and mine like you are using featured image with featured post, but I’m not using featured image just featured post!
Thanks for the comment anyway.