Should you join a blogging network? Blogging networks are popular because it caters to a group of blogs which specializes in one main topic. Most bloggers are divided as to whether or not they are in favor of joining a blogging network or if they should just stay away. In these blog post series, I would be discussing blog networks, their advantages, disadvantages, and how this would help or not help your problogging career:
The more, the merrier
In a blogging network, you would automatically gain new colleague since there are a number of blogs that are included in the network. These colleagues are automatic contacts which would help you in terms of expanding your knowledge in the blogging world. These people would more or less also read your blog and would give you advise about certain blogging matters. In a blogging network, there are usually editors who will guide you as you go along the blogging network.
Exposure
If you are within a blog network, the chances of being exposed as a problogger would increase because a blogging networks are usually established in general. One of the most formidable blogging network, b5media is already an established giant in the problogging field. It encompasses a wide range of bloggers from the business topics and to celebrity and popular TV programs. Being part of this blogging network would help you be sort of an "expert" in the field that you are blogging about because you would more or less focus on this topic and on the growth of such topic. There are also other opportunities that could be explored through the exposure that you would have once joining a blogging network. It would be through the blog network itself or outside deals such as writing a book or other similar exploits.
Established Pay
The main reason or pull that blogging networks have as compared to having your own is the lure of a "regular pay". In my experience, there are two types of paying scheme that I usually encounter when joining a blog network. It would be first, through having a basic pay like committing to have a certain number of posts and the pay would be on a per blog post basis that would amount to a sufficient amount every month. On the other hand, there is the profit sharing wherein the blogging network and the blogger would have a "dividing" of some sort regarding the profit in a certain period of time. It is the blogger’s discretion on what kind of paying scheme would be more profitable for them in the end.
Next Up: Blogging Network: Cons
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