Friday is a popular day for link roundups and Follow Friday recommendations.
Both are excellent ideas for bloggers and social media users to emulate.
I highly recommend you
seek out other bloggers in your
niche and physical geography.Reach out to them by linking to and
commenting in posts you appreciate.Share and recommend them on Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Google+ and elsewhere.
Develop a group of bloggers who support each other’s efforts and recommend each other for Follow Friday on Twitter. Encourage them to use Twitter and share my Twitter Best Practices with them.
The ever popular Kristi Hines has long done what she calls Fetching Friday Link Roundups and I know that many blogs I regularly visit do similar roundups so I’m asking YOU to remind me where they all are!
Just today I discovered a new DoFollow CommentLuv Premium blog thanks to a REAL trackback including one of my guest posts in his TGIF Resource Mashup.
SmallBizTrends published a roundup yesterday of the Best Small Business Advice and many other top sites publish exceptional research that is well worth republishing.
Think about what people where you live or interested in your niche would most want to find and you can compile research that many are highly likely to link to, share and appreciate.
Here are some examples (and if you’ll add YOUR favorites – either on your own blog or anyone else’s site – I will move them up into this list):
- Library Blogs
- Gardening Blogs
- DoFollow KeywordLuv Blogs
- 100 Twitter Ready Quotes
- CommentLuv Premium Reviews
- Top Black Social Media Influencers and Black Social Media Influencers
- Google Plus FollowFriday: 50+ Bloggers Worth Following on Google+
- Example Follow Friday Roundup where the blogger used optimum anchor text for each blog she recommends.
Many blogging collaborations do unique types of roundups like these:
- Recipe Roundup
- Budget Recipe Roundup
- Organic and Natural Coupon Roundup
- Green Resources
If you regularly publish a link roundup series
please leave a link to a post about that OR
to your latest roundup so I can include
YOU in this post. Thanks!
Your relevant links are ALWAYS welcome in the comments here and do take advantage of KeywordLuv to link to your most important search phrases. That’s what we offer it!
Gail Gardner
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It’s a good time to be a blogger these days, watching the web develop over the past few years has been really exciting. Starting a blog and generating the followers you need is generally way easier than only a few years ago but as always content is king 🙂
Follow Friday is great, and it’s today too. Give your new followers some love because sharing is caring!
We get a fair number of blog carnival posts submitted to our site http://www.zoomit.ca/tag/carnival but it would be nice to see more. It is an important form of networking and link-building, and it also helps your audience get more information (and different perspectives) than you alone can provide
Round ups is a good strategy in blogging and because of this strategy there develop a bond between the readers and bloggers.
I’m just learning about roundups and Friday Follow 🙂 I think they are both brilliant ideas! As I develop my blog more, and learn the ropes more, I’m certainly going to jump into the Roundup idea! For now I’m going to learn the ropes with Twitter- one step at a time to build a bionic blog bridge! 😀
There a lot of new bloggers out there who wants to let people know about their blogs. Doing roundup and creating a group of bloggers in order to create support and help in promotion is a great idea. Thank you for the links, they are going to be very useful.
I’ve done link roundups before but this is my first time hearing about FollowFriday. I might been a bit left behind in that regard. 🙂 Anyway, it sounds great, surely more traffic will come using this method.
Thanks for the info! This is just another reason why I love visiting your blog.
Hi John,
In the blogosphere there are always more opportunities you can get involved in and you can create your own! If you link to other bloggers who are Dofollow and use CommentLuv from any blog that does not contain offensive content that is not in a “bad neighborhood” (i.e., gambling, illegal, encouraging vices or containing adult content) at least some of them will link to you.
Stop focusing on link building and only linking to high PR pages and focus instead on finding quality sites in your niche and creating relationships that bring real people back to your site.
When you have relationships with other bloggers they will link to you from the body of posts (which we all know are stronger links than comment links) and send you traffic from their social networking accounts.
REAL relationships will bring you far more business and real readers than focusing on search engines – especially THE search engine that is continually sending us less and less TARGETED traffic and already probably sends you only half targeted traffic and half traffic that immediately bounces.
Expect that to keep happening and STOP PLAYING THEIR GAME. You can never win if you’re playing someone else’s game and the rules favor the house (hint: a good reason why gambling and games of chance are a waste of time and money that could be invested in worthwhile activities).
The way to win is to play OUR game that is fair to all who participate.
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I love those blogs that are having a “linkparty” to other people blogs every friday. Here in Sweden (were I live) bloggers usually are very scrape to link to each others blogposts.
I don’t relly know why…
Hi Rasmus,
Many bloggers have fallen for disinformation that says that outgoing links cost them “link juice” so they want to keep all they can and not link to anyone else.
Bloggers like me belong to a separate type of blogging community who do not focus on competition and hoarding and greed. Instead we believe in Blogging Collaborations, working together and sharing.
All bloggers have to decide which side of that fence they want to join into as I wrote in a post about Blogging Ethics.
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I agree I wish I would not have missed the opportunity.
Hi, I really think the same way as you mentioned but What to do if the other bloggers start competing with the same keyword i m going for? I also wish to have a same niche bloggers community but its not so easy!
Hi Ahmad,
If they do that is a GOOD thing for you both or even several of you. There is room on the first page in search engines for more than one of you AND if you all interact in the comments and write about each other instead of your readers leaving for another blog they are likely to become regulars on ALL of your sites.
There is not one tiny, limited pie that you have to fight over – there is a much larger audience you can reach by all working together.
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Hi Gail,
I love link round ups and every Friday I visit Kristin’s blog for the “s Fetching Friday Link Roundups”. She does a great job at gathering truly useful links.
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Is it really happens? i did’t have idea about that thanks for telling that.
I do the FF on the Twitter but not link roundups. Link roundups are great, though!
that twitter tip is really a great one but I have a hard time finding and obtaining relevant twitter followers
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It is easy to find relevant Twitter followers. See my Twitter Best Practices post – especially step #7 – and if it isn’t clear how to do it just comment in that post or send a regular tweet to @GrowMap and I’ll assist you.
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I stopped participating in follow friday on Twitter some time ago now. I’m currently having a major clearout on our account(s) though as it has mainly just been ‘noise’ for some time now. Trying to identify anything of any great value was just proving too difficult.
So once the accounts have finished being tidied up, we’ll hopefully notice some great tweeters to follow.
Hi Geoff,
Serious bloggers and social media users still do followfriday to identify and share the best Twitter content. Have you tried using Twitter lists to focus on specific groups of Twitter users? See my Twitter Best Practices post for how to use lists and advanced Twitter strategies.
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It’s funny you should suggest that actually as although we’ve been using Twitter lists since they were introduced, we’ve not really been maintaining them or using them for targeted streams and just yesterday, I got a fair few lists set up to watch closely in Tweetdeck and am currently building our own purely to use instead of our main stream.
Thanks, will check out your best practices too 🙂
Each blogger has its own style to dish honor to his readers. These weekly dish ups are to encourage the commentators.
Thanks a lot for giving an opportunity to find out more about it. In my opinion, a round up of links can be really useful for any blog. I haven’t used it yet, but I guess I’ll try it
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Have to do from now, thanks for the eye opening.
I would love to see a link roundup in your niche. I’ll keep an eye out for that.
Haven’t seen techsling do it yet, beat them to the punch 🙂
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I love the idea of Friday Follow, too bad that in my niche, fashion, there are not many blogs open to this kind of marketing. But i will keep searching :))
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Hi Mihai,
In every niche there has to be a leader who is an innovator and introduces things like FollowFriday or link roundups or using CommentLuv. You’ll find that these concepts spread quickly once someone has the courage to introduce them.
CommentLuv communities work best when the blogs have similar interests and audiences – and so do blog collaborations. You can find out more about the blog collaborations I mentor in this post that links to many Blog Collaboration Best Practices.
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Hi!
Thanks a ton for providing list of dofollow blogs as I was searching them from a long time. All your ideas are wonderful. I look forward to your other wonderful posts.
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I have not done link roundups till now but I know it is one of the most helpful way to connect with other blogs. I have been thinking of starting that kind of a post and will be doing so now that I am back to blogging actively.
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I did a weekly roundup for almost 6 months. it seemed like it was fairly popular and was a great way to connect with people. When I decreased my posts from daily 2 to 3 times a week it was one of the things I got rid of.
I have actually been thinking I need to start something like it again. Perhaps once a month. It really can be a great way to reward your community and connect with others.
Thanks for the roundup! These are some great resources that you shared.
Nice compilation, will check it out now.
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Thanks for this great post and will start following your Twitter best practices and hope to get more out of it…
I thought about doing some kind of weekly roundup resource type of thing. I want to make sure I have enough time to keep up with it before I jump into it. For the time being I am holding off until I decide whether I want to go that route or not. There are a number of sites that do some form of weekly roundup thing. The other thing is I don’t want to seem like I am copying them or their idea.
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Hi Gail,
Gera of SweetsFoods.com published this compendium:
Google Plus FollowFriday: 50+ Bloggers Worth Following on Google+
Google Plus FollowFriday
http://www.sweetsfoods.com/2011/07/google-plus-followfriday.html
Mitch Mitchell of ImJustSharing.com compiled these two lists on African American influencers in social media (goal was to share 50):
21 Of The Top Black Social Media Influencers
Top Black Social Media Influencers
http://www.imjustsharing.com/21-of-the-top-black-social-media-influencers/
29 More Black Social Media Influencers
Black Social Media Influencers
http://www.imjustsharing.com/29-more-black-social-media-influencers/
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Thank you, Vernessa! I added the links you shared to the body of the post.
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Gail excellent compilation of roundups and other resources!
Thanks for adding my Google Plus #FollowFriday suggested by Vernessa!
I didn’t know between the temples blog, I’ll visit it 🙂
Also love quotes, more short ones to be sent on Twitter, going there, right now!
All the best,
Gera
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Thanks a lot Vernessa for mentioning my compendium of Google+ #FF! I didn’t have time lately to expand the concept, but I’d try later.
Gail is doing a great job with these roundups!
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Thank you for including Your Green Resource in your links Gail! Since the four of us started collaborating on this linky, I’ve seen growth in my site and I’ve also met lots of new bloggers with whom I’ve made connections and can see partnering with in the future.
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Hi Andrea,
Do you know about the collaboration resources I’ve published here? They might be useful to your green collaboration, too. I collected them all into one post to make them easier to find in Blogging Collaborations and Best Practices.
If you add one more you could use my Guest Blogging: Five Blog Schedule.
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