Good morning and welcome to the Grow Your Blog Blog Hop! This blog hop is all about networking and building your blog. Each week from Thursday through Sunday I will host the Grow Your Blog link party, along with a few co-hosts, in order to promote blog networking. Why is blog networking great for you? Simply put, it increases readership and traffic to your blog. How do you network? Visit. Comment. Invite. Communicate. These are key to growing your blog.
PLEASE NOTE: This Gal Cooks is moving to WordPress in few weeks. If you are a GFC follower, please follow via a different method. You can follow via Bloglovin below or you can follow via RSS, Facebook, G+, Twitter or Email. Those links are right over on my sidebar! Be sure to let me know how you followed so I can follow you back!
THIS WEEKS CO-HOSTS
When you link up to this party:
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Follow your host and co-hosts.
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Visit and follow other bloggers.
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Comment to let them know that you stopped by and how you followed their blog (GFC, BlogLovin, etc)
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Invite them to visit your blog (be sure to leave your blog web address – too many times have I seen bloggers comment and request a visit to their blog without leaving their blog web address)
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Communicate with them about what you like on their blog. Let them know you are interested in their blog. USE THEIR NAME! A simple “I’m so and so stopping by. I followed you please follow me.” just isn’t going to interest someone into visiting your blog. Sure, you can request a visit to your blog or a follow along but engage in some type of conversation first.
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Grab a button and promote the party! The more participants, the more bloggers to network with!
Contact Julie at thisgalcooks@gmail.com and she will schedule you!
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Just found you Julie and am now following you with +!
Thank you for hosting this hop.
-Jamie
http://chatterblossom.blogspot.com/
Thanks for hosting! Hope your week is filled with Blessings:)
I look forward to this hop… have found some great bloggers here… thanks again for hosting!
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(¸.·´ (¸.·`¤… Jennifer
http://jennsrandomscraps.blogspot.ca
http://pinterest.com/jennp6
I have your RSS feed in my google reader. I'm following on bloglovin too but I don't use it to read blogs. Thanks for hosting! Esther Norine Designs
Whoops! I left MY name (Mindy Wood) instead of my blog's name (Purposefully Simple)
I'm following you on Twitter. Thanks for hosting!
purposefullysimple.wordpress.com
Thanks for the party, Julie. I still can't decide about making the switch to WP…
Hi Karyn!
Thanks so much for stopping by! I've been going back and forth about the switch for a few months now. I finally decided I needed to do it before I had over 300 posts to move over. I've been playing around with my test site and have tried a few test posts and I LOVE it! There's a lot more functionality with posts, widgets and sharing capabilities than there is with Blogger.
Have a great day!
Julie
Hi Mindy!
Thanks so much for following via Twitter! I am following you back. Have a wonderful weekend!
Julie
Hey thanks for hosting! I followed your feed and FB. I host a blog hop on Tuesdays you should come over and check it out. http://Www.adventureintodomesticland.com
Thanks for the great info. Follow me on myultimatekitchen.blogspot.com