To build your personal brand, you should proactively comment on blogs related to your field and interact with bloggers in your industry.
To help you get started, we developed a Blog Recommendation Engine that suggests what blogs you should be reading based on your field. It taps into a variety of authoritative blog sources including Technorati, AllTop, and user generated and expert-reviewed suggestions.
Leaving thoughtful comments on blogs posts establishes yourself as contributing member of your industry. Besides demonstrating your insight, it also connects you to top bloggers in your field and other blog commenters in your niche who can potentially advance your career. Follow our guidelines for leaving effective blog comments to maximize your time spent commenting.
The Blog Recommendation Engine is one part of our Hireability Dashboard, which breaks down the components of your personal brand online and grades the strength of each. It is part of the Niche Involvement section, which tracks your blog comments, blog comments mentioning you, recommended blogs and Twitter. The Visibility section tracks your Google search results, professional profiles, social networks, directories, web 2.0 services to protect your username on, and media related to your name. The Credibility section tracks your blog, other blogs mentioning you, social bookmarks mentioning you, and news mentioning you. Each section shows you what you should do to create a strong personal brand online, and tracks your progress along the way:
The Next Step
Now it’s time to find out: which blogs should you be commenting on? Create a free Brand-Yourself.com account now and start managing your online reputation with our Hireability Dashboard. See you there, and let us know what you think here.
