Building a Community In Your Niche
One way to strengthen the community in your niche is to start a planet. A planet is an aggregation of blogs with a web page and a feed.
The idea of a planet is to join and build a community around a niche. This just happens to have SEO benefits, too.
All the bloggers who belong to the planet selflessly chip in with links and articles (the same articles as on their blog, or a subset), and the planet pays back with links and interest. The more successful the planet gets, the more it pays back to it’s bloggers, which in turn feeds back to the planet.
It’s somewhat similar to twitter, but with full blog articles, instead of short notes. What you send to the planet, subscribers of the planet receive, and if they are also a blog member of the planet, they can reply with their own blog post.
The result is a stronger community, a community others can join in or watch from a distance.
A community who gets to know each other quicker, and help each other in their niche.
It’s a common convention to call the planet, planet *niche* (where *niche* is the topic of the niche) and the domain is planet.niche.com (replace niche.com with it’s own domain name)
Leave a comment or a message if you’d like to know more, or help with setting one up. Indeed, if you have an SEO related blog and want to join a planet, drop us a line.
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