Weekly Links Ups to Grow Your Blog

Cross legged on the worn out apartment carpet, a bowl of cheerios balancing dangerously on one knee and the Kansas City Star Sunday paper sprawled out in all it’s massive glory of ads, funnies and news is how David often discovered me during my first round of marathon training in 2005.

Since then my routine of relaxing by reading hasn’t changed, but the medium tends to be more on screen than paper and largely I blame everyone who keeps publishing so much wonderful stuff that I can’t read it all!

Each week a number of bloggers scour the web to collect great posts from the week, thus saving me tons of time and acquainting me with new ideas and authors. These round ups will make your lunch hour fly:Looking to find some new great bloggers? Maybe some interesting recipes? Or just to grow your own audience, try participating in a link up!

Running With Spoons {Think Out Loud Thursday’s}
Amanda’s round finds all kinds of intriguing blog posts and articles from around the web that all fit in with her mantra of observing life and discovering what leads to enjoying it most. The link up then allows you a chance to truly think out loud on your own blog and then come connect with others.

MCM Mama {Tuesday’s on the Run}
A weekly link up with a specific topic idea. Great way to connect with other running bloggers by going through and commenting on each other.

Fairytales and Fitness {Friday Five}
Another weekly link up with a topic. Great for when you’re trying to get in to the blogging habit and may not always know what to talk about. Again you’ll also have a built in community to connect with by commenting on each others blogs each week.

Link ups are like networking without the awkward small talk! Click To Tweet

Confessions of a Mother Runner {Meatless Monday}
Want to start spreading the love on some of your recipes? Try finding a niche specific weekly round up like Meatless Monday!

Org Junkie {Menu Plan Monday}
Another great one if you are in the food niche to help give you a weekly idea, include some links to your own recipes and share those from others.

Wendy’s Long Way Home {Weekly Wrap Up}
A great chance to catch up everyone on things happening in your life if that fits with your blog.

And here are a list of potential link ups for travel bloggers.

Want to create your own link up?

If done well, like Running With Spoons, you can guarantee yourself a great big hit of traffic every week from people coming to see your post and to add theirs. But it does require some work to make it successful.

I think that Melyssa Griffin actually covered this pretty well, so I’ll direct you to her post.

Any great weekly link round ups you really love reading?

Do you participate in link ups?

Other ways to connect with Amanda

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