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The popularity contest of blogging and gaining links and traffic doesn't happen overnight. It takes time and work.

Content is king? Not in the heavily saturated blogosphere. Whatever idea you have, however you choose to present it, someone, somewhere will do it as well or better.

Even legendary martial artist Bruce Lee understood this. While the Little Dragon's popularity would have earned him a massive following had he lived long enough to blog, you probably don't have that cushion of love.

Copyblogger said you won't get that love, or the valuable links that feed a blog. Not without working it, baby.

"Bloggers link more often to their friends than anyone else. If you write a reasonably good piece of content that interests their audience, they’ll link to you, mainly because they like you," Copyblogger said.

Copyblogger offered some advice on earning this adoration. Some of it seems more reasonable than others, like volunteering to vote up their posts on social media sites versus writing a guest post on a popular blog. Anyone who can get into a popular blog with a guest post probably has enough high-powered friends to get links from them already.

Networking in person, commenting intelligently on their posts online, and conducting an interesting interview of the desired popular blogger offer chances at longer term relationships that could lead to inbound linking and the followers who click them.

Being ignored isn't any fun. Neither is hard work, but without the latter, it's difficult to resolve the former without some ultra-rare bit of serendipity happening for your blog. We think it's better to depend on the hard work than a fleeting bit of good fortune.