Good Thursday morning and welcome to the Grow Your Blog (or GYB) blog hop! Paula and I are so happy to have you link up with us this week. And we happily welcome any new bloggers to the party! 🙂 How has your week been? Do you have any plans for the weekend?
What is the Grow Your Blog Hop all about? NETWORKING! Meeting new bloggers, finding new content to follow, building your readership. 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.
THIS WEEK’S HOSTS & LOVELY CO-HOSTS!
Julie from This Gal Cooks (HOST)
Paula from Call Me PMc (HOST)
Martine from Way Beyond the Naked Truth (CO-HOST)
Annamaria from Bakewell Junction (CO-HOST)
Esther from Esther Norine Designs (CO-HOST)
Kait from High Heels and Hot Deals (CO-HOST)
WHEN YOU LINK UP TO THIS PARTY:
- Follow your hosts and co-hosts
- Link up the main page of your blog, not an individual post. You may link up your individual posts to Marvelous Mondays.
- Visit and follow other bloggers
- Comment to let them know that you stopped by and how you followed (Email, GFC, Facebook, Bloglovin, etc)
- 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)
- 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.
- Grab a button and promote the party (you can get the button on This Gal Cooks right here.)
Hi Annamarie! Thanks for co hosting, I love GYB and finding new blogs, stop by sometime when you’re free!
Emily,
Thanks for stopping by.
Have a happy Thursday, following you via twitter, thank you for co-hosting!
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(¸.·´ (¸.·`¤… Jennifer
http://jennsrandomscraps.blogspot.ca
Jennifer,
Thanks for following. Enjoy the rest of your Thursday too.
Hi, Thank you for co-hosting. I am excited to now be following your blog. Have a great day.
Sarah
http://sarahmschultz.blogspot.com
Sarah,
Thanks for following.
Thank you for co-hosting! Check me out @ http://www.feelingtheemptynest.blogspot.com when you have time. Thanks!
Nicky,
Thanks for stopping by. Loved co-hosting. Hopefully I get the chance to do it again.
Hi Annamarie, I’d love to follow you, but you don’t have any links to FB, twitter, or Bloglovin’ listed on your page. I also would have responded to your nice comment on my blog, but you currently have your e-mail address hidden on Google so you post as a “No-reply” Comment. If you need help with changing that, please let me know. It’s easy to change. Have a great weekend!
Karyn,
Thanks for letting me know about the follow links on my site. I’ve updated that. I’ll also look into changing Google.
Hi Annamaria! Thanks for co-hosting! I’ll add you to my google reader and I’m looking forward to your posts. I love food posts! Esther Norine Designs
Esther,
Thanks for following. Hope you find some recipes you like here.
Annamaria
Hi Annamarie!! Just found and followed through the blog hop! Happy co-hosting 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend 🙂
Paula
lifeasweknowitbypaula.blogspot.com
Paula,
Thanks for following. Have a great weekend.
Annamaria
Hi Annamaria! I love your name! Stopping by on the tail end of the party. Following you now via email. Can’t wait to get all your wonderful recipes. You seem to be my kind of baker….italian goodies, yum! Visit me at my blog http://www.musingsofavintagejunkie.blogspot.com
I post recipes sometimes too! AnnMarie (100% Italian!)
AnnMarie,
Thanks for stopping by and for following. My Mom wanted to name me Annemarie but my Father wanted Annamaria – he won. My Mom and a lot of my family still call me Annemarie.