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1. 

   10/05/09

   timethief

   I don't know what you have done so far to attract traffic but I'll try to give you some useful advice.
   
   Register with Technorati and claim your blog. Register with the 3 big search engines Google, Yahoo and Bing. Get a Google webmasters account and submit a sitemap.
   
   Blog Catalog delivers targeted readers to blogs, not just a flood of indiscriminate traffic that creates a high bounce rate.
   
   Targeted readers are far more likely to:
   ----read more than one post when they visit;
   ----become faithful readers;
   ----leave meaningful comments that expand your knowledge base;
   ----become subscribers;
   ----recommend your blog to their friends.
   
   Invest time and energy into creating to an informative BC Profile, an accurate Blog Description, appropriate Directing listing categories and tags for your blog. These can be used in other social networks you register with as well.
   
   Some traffic promotion advice
   (1) Write well and publish regularly. Keeping your blog updated with fresh and informative content will maintain reader interest.
   (2) Reply to every comment.
   (3) Link to your faithful readers' related blogs and avoid both link exchanges to unrelated blogs and reciprocal linking. Google and Technorati no longer assign authority to links to unrelated blogs. Both are looking for natural linking patterns. Therefore it's important to create a natural linking strategy onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/natural-linking-strategy-for-bloggers/
   (4) Be aware of your subscribers and subscribe to the feeds on their related blogs.
   (5) Comment, comment, comment and comment on other blogs in the same niche as your own.
   (6) Backlink to posts published by faithful readers in the same niche wherever possible.
   (7) Learn basic SEO and structure a reader and search engine blog. In blogging content is king and marketing is queen. If you write high quality original content on a regular basis and promote it then the result may be an increase in organic traffic, or not. If it’s not easy to locate your content in search engines then there will be no increase in new traffic. onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/08/04/basic-seo-elements-for-bloggers/
   (8) Use a Blog Catalog Recent Comments widget to showcase those readers who leave the most recent comments.
   (9) Encourage your blog readers to comment
   onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/encouraging-blog-readers-to-comment/
   (10) Use a Frequent Commenters widget to showcase those who leave the most comments.
   (11) Join social networks and create relationships. Promote your own blog and support the promotions of the blogs of your faithful readers at every opportunity that you can and everywhere that you can. onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/how-to-form-blog-centered-relationship...
   (12) Use twitter, friendfeed and other other Free RSS directories to promote your blog posts.
   For more detailed instructions this post will be of help:
   Twenty five steps to increase blog traffic
   onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/twenty-five-steps-to-increase-blog-tra...

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   1. 

      11 days ago

      Offbeatnews

      Great...TimeThief said it all.
2. 

   13 days ago

   tjongolongo

   I recently asked a similar question as well. You can check out the replies I received here:
   www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/how-can-i-get-more-traffic-to-my-blog-and...
   
   I thought the information was helpful, maybe it'll help you too.

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3. 

   12 days ago

   ophase

   Just use stumbleupon.com

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