If you are a blogger who started a blog independently, you would appreciate how difficult it is to bring up the blog from scratch, building traffic, loyal readership and ranks. However, if you join a Blogging Community and start your blog from there, it will be a lot easier because of the ready readership and traffic among members.

Two months ago, I was introduced to a blogging community at http://www.thoughts.com/. On this portal, once you register an account with them, you will be given a free blog where you can easily create your own space online, sharing your thoughts on anything that catches your fancy.

Each new post is given the necessary exposure with a link from the homepage of thoughts.com under Recent Blog Posts and your posts can also be easily searched via cloud tag. You can also be featured in the member’s photos section. All these are very important features that will bring you readership. Let’s face it, it does not matter how good you write if nobody reads it, you know?

If you are up to more networking, Thoughts has a very active forum where you can socialize and link your blog from your signature. Make use of the free space for photos by sharing your photos with readers. I notice that readers like to see photos of the bloggers. Perhaps this makes them feel as if they KNOW the blogger.

Out of the so many bloggers on Thoughts.com, how do you know who are the better bloggers? Well, members of the community get to rate others’ posts. These are listed under Popular Posts.

Thoughts.com is actually more than a free blogging platform but a full-fledged blogging AND social networking site. If I have the time, I would really like to start a new blog there but as it is, I already have more than ten blogs!!