Create a fitness blog network for more traffic

You have friends right? Do you have friends who blog?  Do you have friends who blog in fitness?  If you answered to those questions then did you know your friends and you can help each other out with traffic and backlinks?

This one is so easy yet often not performed.  You should first have a regular schedule for your blog posts, or at least be posting once a week or more.  You should already be leaving comments on other fitness blogs that you read to generate a bit of traffic.

So if you meet the simple above criteria of :

1. You have friends

2. You post regularly to your fitness blog

than you can take advantage of the power of a blog network.  The network power shouldn’t be anything new, you understand the importance of mastermind groups, coaching, and your bootcamp clients interacting with each other.   So why not network and work with a group to blast your blog to the next level?

So lets cut to the details shall we?

How do these blog networks work and how do you set one up?  First you need to contact your friends and ask them if they want to participate.  Let them know the steps you have planned and the expectations of your group.

Something like this should work:

Hey I want to put together a network of fitness bloggers to help increase each others traffic and blog presence. What that means is that we simply comment on each others blog posts and take time to Digg, etc the posts.

If we do this once a week, (I assume if you have a blog, you post on it once a week) we will create nice links, comments on posts, and traffic from social media sites.

Reply if interested.

Once you get responses, which you should, people will have questions and you should give them answers.  Plus everyone should do some tweaking on their blogs to pass link love to each other.

This applies to fitness blogs running on Wordpress, which I hope everyone is using.  When they ask what is next, you can simply direct them as so:

Alright so it basically works like this:

1 day a week we visit each others blogs and leave a comment which has a link back to your own site. Say you do it on Friday or something.

For a backlink to actually happen, you need either to get the DoFollow plugin or CommentLuv. I run both.

In addition to a comment, (your post should have social bookmarking capability) to do a quick Digg on that post also.

Its cool to go to a blog and leave a comment, because you thinking you’re getting a backlink.  However Wordpress comes fresh with no follow to all comment links.  Most people will never change this, but at Easy Fitness Websites we do follow.  So remember to leave a comment after reading any post.

So you see if you want to spread love then you should install these Wordpress plugins onto your blog – Do Follow and CommentLuv.

But the main point you want to make with your blog network is to bookmark your site to Digg, Delicious, Stumble, etc.  To make things easier you can just choose one as the norm and have everyone use the same.  So if you have a network of 8 then your post will have 8 diggs.  Remember to Digg your own posts as well.

So each week you should all visit every person in your networks blog, leave a comment, take 15 seconds to bookmark the post, and move to the next person.  You can also encourage each other to submit to social bookmarking sites at a certain time, say morning rather than midnight.  But remember too many rules and people start to drop off.

So email or IM some of your friends and tell them you want to start a fitness blog network to improve your websites.  (You could even contact me)