We’re officially over half-way now in our series “Building A More Successful Blog In 30 Days.”  And day 16 brings you some tips on strengthening the community you’re building around your blog.

Strengthening your blog community builds both trust and a relationship with your readers that will keep them coming back over and over again.

The most important part of successfully building a strong community is to show your readers that you care.  After all, you do care… don’t you?

If you don’t care, then you shouldn’t expect to become very successful.  Your readers are smart and can pick up on whether you really care about them or not.

If you’re unsure what a blog community really is, I’ve written a previous post discussing Home Bases, Outposts, Frontiers, & Communities

While there are many ways to strengthen the community around your blog, we’re only going to focus on two easy ways to get you started.

Giving Love To Your Commentators

Task number one consists of simply recognizing your commentators by going to each and everyone’s blog and making a comment yourself.

I don’t care you if have 1 commentator or 100.  For at least a week, I want you to visit each of their blog’s and leave a comment everytime they leave you a comment.

Don’t just leave a comment saying, “Great Post.”  Take it seriously, don’t half-ass your intentions, and say something really worth saying.

Your readers will notice a change.  They’ll feel like you really do care.  And sometimes, that’s exactly what they need.

After the one week is over, choose at random 5-10 commentators from each new post and continue visiting and commenting.

Strengthing your community is more than just a week long change.  It’s about a new lifestyle.  One that shows compassion and builds trust.

The Power Behind Twitter Power

You second task involves Twitter.  If you’re a blogger trying to be successful, and you aren’t using Twitter, you are behind the power curve, and you need to jump on the bandwagon right now.

Twitter is the power player in the social media marketing world, and can actually be a better source of traffic than your blog subscribers.

For this task I want you to randomly select 5-6 people that follow you, or that you follow, but you never talk to.

Start a conversation, and make it a point to keep talking to each of those people for a whole week.  When you’ve completed the week.  Randomly select 5-6 more and do it all over again.  Keep doing this until your having meaningful, conversations with thousands of people on a daily and weekly basis.

Doing this broadens your network, and helps to build a stronger and much larger community based around you and your brand.

The more people feel closer to you and like you’re a great friend, the stronger the trust will be.  And the stronger the trust, the more likely they’ll re-tweet a message for you, or participate on your blog, or even buy something you’re promoting or selling.

Friends buy from friends first.

Outstanding Results

Even after just one week of doing both of these tasks, you’ll notice a huge difference in your blog traffic, your follower numbers, the money you make on your blog, and the number of people who are willing to lend a hand when you really need it.

Everyone else is what makes you successful.  Not yourself.  But you sure can do things to assist other people in taking a step in that direction.

Have you ever tried these methods of strengthening your community?  What other methods work for you?