DailyBlogTips offered up 5 Things you SHOULDN'T Do When Approaching Bloggers.

This post mainly focuses on appropriate ways to network with fellow bloggers to start raking in the search results. Authors and publicists do similar networking when going on virtual book tours, or try to get placement on review blogs.

One of the worst things authors and publicists do is constantly email me about live links to posts.

If a post has run, there is absolutely NO REASON why an author or publicist shouldn't go to our site and search for the author's name or book to get it. Emailing me for the link is sheer laziness – and a little appalling when it's a few months AFTER the post has run. This tells me those involved didn't bother to check our site the day the post ran, and likely did zero to promote it.

If a post doesn't run on the day it was schedule, sure, email me and
I'll investigate – any good host will. It's possible the post was bumped for other content -
which is what happens at newspapers and magazines all the time.
Unfortunately, the world isn't as forgiving for bumped content on blogs
as it is in print. It also isn't as forgiving for cyber glitches that delay posts.

But I digress…

When you approach bloggers for publicity, do it with the knowledge that you need to follow up with each blog and check for the content on the scheduled dates. Don't just book them and hope for the best. That is a failing formula that will not help you decipher which sites are best for genre traffic.