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Online Social Life

Blogging is all about social activities that we are involved in every day. The more engaged we are, the more satisfaction blogging will give us, and the better bloggers we will be. I prepared the following list to share with you how you can participate in such social activities. If you have any other ideas how else a blogger can participate, please share it with us by leaving a comment. Here goes the list:

1. Comment on other people’s blogs. Do it as much as possible and whenever possible. Don’t you love being part of the blogosphere? It is visiting other people’s blogs, and reading interesting posts. I think it is natural for bloggers to check out other blogs whenever their time permits.

2. Reward people for visiting your blog. You can do it in a few ways:

• By visiting and commenting on their blogs.
• By displaying on your hompage top commentators that comment the most on your blog. This will definitely encourage your readers to comment. By doing so you will be linking to them which will also benefit them. I know of at least a few bloggers that use very successful methods to encourage others to leave comments. The truth is simple, everyone likes his readers commenting on his blog, unless it is spam. Don’t you enjoy visiting your website and finding out that there are at least a few positive comments?