Make money blogging in South Africa

There are so many blog networks, communities and RSS aggregators out there that you would be stupid not to sign up and join in the communication. Not only will it help create an online personality for your blog and yourself, it will make people more aware of your site. All these techniques also have an underlying benefit… links and traffic!

I’m not going to go on about backlinks, but that is one of the many reasons why you should get your site listed on some of the more popular sites. For South African’s, there are 2 sites that have become an almost must for you to sign up - amatomu and afrigator.

amatomu and afrigator sitting in a tree, C-O-M-M-U-N-I-T-Y

Both amatomu and afrigator use your RSS feed and publish your latest posts on their sites. They also offer stats on your blog along with the ability for people to interact with your blog by voting for your blog and posts. Once again this builds that ever important blog personality. There is also a very active community that revolves around these 2 services with also ties in with our South African verson of Reddit - Muti. So sign up and join in the South African blogosphere!

MyBlogLog

Another service that has seen a massive following over the last couple of months is MyBlogLog. MyBlogLog is built around every site having a community of readers that visit your site. Along with these communities, you can add readers that interact with your site as contacts and friends and build a mini community around yourself!

Have a look at my profile on MyBlogLog - JBagley. You can see I have a couple of contacts that I have added, a few admirers - people that have added me as a contact but I have not returned the favour (yet!) and messages on the right that people have left me. I do not have a massive community, but it grows steadily every day, and this way more and more people get to know me and the blogs I run. I have also met some South African bloggers on MyBlogLog that i would never have met elsewhere!

Blogcatalog

Blogcatalog is very similar to MyBlogLog in that it builds communities around you and your sites. I have tended to use MyBlogLog a lot more because they have more members than Blogcatalog, but Blogcatalog does have a very nice interface and I have seen an increase of people using it of late, and I can’t see why you can’t use both! Visit my Blogcatalog - JBagley

So spend a couple of minutes registering your sites and adding the widgets to your blog. Then join in the conversation by leaving messages on blogs that use these services and you will be surprised how people will react to you joining in. You will make more friends, create a community of loyal readers and as I said previously, bring traffic and backlinks to your site!