Collaboration with other bloggers creates professional relationships you can use to achieve your goals. A massive 80% of executives from Fortune 500 companies believe social collaboration is key. Whether you need to reach a new audience or add a fresh voice to your website, collaborating with other bloggers is always a good option. A lack of good connections can be dangerous to your business.
Connecting with other people in your line of work can happen in a number of ways. 
In this guide, you are going to learn about some of the ways you can collaborate with other bloggers.
Mastermind Groups
A mastermind is a closed group where bloggers share their knowledge. It doesn’t have to be exclusive for bloggers. It could include professionals in that field. Mastermind groups not only provide you with the perfect background to acquire knowledge, but they provide the ideal place to connect with bloggers.
It’s also a fantastic place to get ideas for new and exciting content.
Guest Posting
Guest posting is the main way bloggers may decide to collaborate with each other. It may be a trade, where they post on your website and you post on their website. Alternatively, you may pay another blogger for their services on your website.
While this has lost its SEO benefits, it’s still good enough to enhance the user experience. Avoid thinking about guest posting in terms of SEO and start thinking about it in terms of how you can add something interesting for your audience. In this video, Ms. Ileane shows you how to get started by Inviting Guest Bloggers to Your WordPress Blog.
Group Projects
Another group activity is to initiate a group project. For example, a group of bloggers may get together to produce a chapter of an eBook. Each blogger produces a piece of unique content and an editor fits it all together. All involved bloggers will then promote the publication on their website.
This can work with several bloggers all sending traffic to each other. And the best part is this can work in any industry.
Crowdsourcing
Ask a question in a Facebook group relating to a specific niche. You’ll be surprised at how many bloggers take the time to respond. This is an indirect way of producing new content because not only are you asking questions your readers may ask you are answering them through the words of trusted bloggers.
It also happens that bloggers love to share these posts because they are both helpful and self-promotional.
Group Pinterest Boards
Pinterest isn’t a social media platform for everybody. But for bloggers, it’s an essential resource. Create your own group board to begin sourcing and sharing images on. From a practical standpoint, this is a great way to create a bank of images you can use on your posts.
Gather together a few bloggers in similar niches. Make the group board and create a pinning rotation. When it’s your turn, make sure the description is rich with keywords.
Make a List Post with Your Favorite Bloggers
Again, readers adore these posts because it’s you introducing them to people you trust. They may be able to expand their knowledge and read in a niche they hadn’t considered before. The list post is just you telling people about the bloggers you like.
Some of these bloggers may even catch wind of your post and connect with you, as a result. You are placing yourself in a great position to make friends because you are giving the gift of publicity without any expectation of a return.
Link Party
What is a link party you ask?
This is where a team of bloggers share each other’s work through all available platforms. It can multiply exposure many times over and lead to you introducing others to brand new audiences while they do the same for you.
Take note that this isn’t an SEO move because Google has heavily hammered backlinking. Instead, it’s a way to garner a new audience through social media channels and through the sites of your fellow bloggers. It can allow lots of small bloggers to bring together their collective exposure to accomplish big things.
Relationships are not Born Overnight
Creating solid relationships between bloggers isn’t something that can be accomplished quickly. It requires trust between two parties. They don’t want to associate themselves with someone who is any less honorable than themselves. Trust is hard to get in blogging and nobody wants to compromise that by associating with the wrong people.
Keep working away and after a few collaborations together you will soon have a professional network you crave.
Thanks for sharing this list, AJ. I’m about to look into the Pinterest Boards and link parties. Do you know where I can find link parties?
Link Party is a very great concept. I always wanted to start a community based on this idea. This will provide great benefits to all the participants.
Hi AJ,
Thanks for putting this together. These are all great ways we can collaborate with other bloggers. I use all of these except for group projects and that is a great idea. I’m going to bring it up to the bloggers in my mastermind group.
Thanks for sharing. Have a great weekend.
Cori
Thank you for posting some really good ideas, some I had not heard but will look into. I especially like the Group Post and the Group Pinterest boards.
Hi AJ,
In this business model of ours, collaboration is key (who can handle it all)?
Unfortunately, bloggers today are still thinking in terms of what they can do on their own instead of creatively using the power of leverage.
As Han said in Fast & Furious, ‘…50% of something is better than 100% of nothing…’ I strongly believe, if bloggers all think in this fashion, the money will steadily flow forward.
Do make the day great!
Always,
Akaahan Terungwa
Hey AJ.
Wise words. No question that collaboration is a big element of online success. I always enjoy outreach and networking. I know it can be a process, but nothing compares to working together in a relationship that benefits both parties.
Well of course, it brings some positive relation with the other bloggers.
I too get some descent tips from my seniors.
Thanks for sharing this effective article.
Collaborating with other blogger is very good. The best way to is guest post and commenting on other bloggers.
The collaboration also increase the backlinks and the trust factor on the blog.
Thanks for sharing such a great article!
Keep it up!
A very brilliant post AJ,
Collaboration is very important as far as blogging and internet marketing is concerned. Its only by collaborating with other like minded bloggers that you’ll boost your online visibility and also gain so many awesome tips that will enable you to grow your own blog.
Among all the collaboration tips you shared here, I love Guest Blogging the more because its one of the best ways to connect and build a solid relationship with the influencers in your niche together with the readers.
Thanks for sharing.
What is this link party? I think google do not love the this link party as the name suggest.
Do you have a list of which tech niche blogs allow guest posting?
I love Link Parties and have recommended them to many newbie bloggers as a way to not only get more traffic to their own blog but just to be able to collaborate with others.
I just started my website and I think inviting other bloggers for a guest post will be a good idea to increase the social network of the website and it will also be helpful in the near future.
Thanks for this helpful post.
Hi AJ Agrawal,
These are some great tips that could help us to collaborate with other bloggers.
Link parties is something which I learned new here. Thanks for this.
Even if we are willing to work along with other bloggers, the first thing that we need to establish
is the trust, as nobody wants to keep their link up with wrong bloggers who could destroy their market good will.
Guest post is among one of the key factor and commenting on other bloggers blogs, would help one to create
their trust over some other bloggers.
Great article and great idea. Thank you
Shantanu sinha
I think guest posting works fine as it is builds a win-win relationship between you and other bloggers, the only issue is some bloggers don’t write quality blog post.
Hi AJ Agarwal,
Link Party is a cool way to start collaboration. I have tried master mind groups in the past to get started with collaborated projects. I have even tried by arranging small meetups in my local area and gathered several well-known bloggers to discuss lots of things.
I’m sure, this link party trick will bring more interest in the collaboration.
Hey AJ,
These are great ideas. I’ve done an expert roundup post and have been involved in quite a few. I tell you that it’s a great way to get a lot of traffic and social proof.
Crowdsourcing and link parties are great. Being with individuals who share the same interests as you do makes it easier and a lot more fun to collaborate with. Trust is built and you find friends you can count on whenever you have a problem.
Thanks for sharing AJ and you have a great weekend!
Hi AJ,
You’re right collaborating with other like by writing guest for them can increase contact with other bloggers. I’m doing this now a days for making some contact thanks you just remind me of this again.
Hi AJ,
These are all great ways we can collaborate with other bloggers. I use almost all of these. I’m going to bring it up to the bloggers in my mastermind group. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us !!
Regards,
Vaibhav Tiwari