Raise Blog Traffic

One question repeatedly appearing in forums about blogs and blogging is this: how can I get more people to read my blog? Visitors to blogs and other types of websites are usually termed "traffic", but you want to avoid hit and runs and focus on building a dependable following. You want the kind of visitors who come back again and again, preferably every day. For that to happen, you will need to:

1. Blog often, with news or unique content.
2. Concentrate on popular items.
3. Keep your blog on topic.
4. Make the posts interesting or useful.
5. Ping blog aggregators regularly.
6. Guard your links ferociously.
7. Explore joining link exchanges.

Every time I've tried number seven, I chicken out. Either I don't have the time required to visit others' blogs (other than those to whom I link), or I haven't been entirely happy with the results. The one I participated in the most, went out of business.

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