Step1
Decide the topic you want your future blog to focus on.
Step2
Use a search website like Google to research the online communities that already exist and cater to readers interested in the subject that your blog will cover.
Step3
Visit all of the communities that your search located, making note of particular quirks, such as the tone of the blogs and members, the general look of the website, and how frequently members participate in discussions.
Step4
Read the user agreement thoroughly to understand what rights, if any, you will be giving up if you decide to start a blog hosted at the community.
Step5
Join the community anyway if you really like it, even if you decide not to start a blog. You'll still have the ability to comment on other members' content and become friends with them.
Step6
Set up your blog if you want to and if the community allows members to name their blogs, choose an appropriate one that makes the subject immediately clear.
Step7
Begin writing posts that fit in with the community's spirit.
Step8
Compose comments that are in keeping with the tone of the community and that are helpful and informative when you decide to join a discussion on someone else's blog. Other members will learn from your words that you are a respectful participant who shares a common interest, and that will make them more likely to visit your blog later.
Step9
Return the favor when members comment on your blog posts to show you understand the interactive nature of blogging and to gain more enjoyment from discussing a common subject with other interested people.
Step10
Participate in the communal efforts that blogging networks sometimes sponsor, such as joint posts, groups, charity events, and even gatherings outside of the virtual sphere in the real world. As you get to know the other community members better, you'll continue to learn and grow closer to them. Then when their circle of friends in the community expands, so will yours.
Step11
Befriend several members of the community's "in" crowd. Every network has one. But, unlike high school, gaining entry is often as simple as making a thoughtful comment or two on an admired member's posts.