I have been trying, failing and learning for a week now and I have finally figured out something that seems to provide a certain amount of traffic and it also gave me my first frequent reader.

1. Use BloggingZoom to SHARE CONTENT
   http://bloggingzoom.com is proving as a good source for targeted traffic, blogginzoom is a place where you can post your articles to, it is meant to be used as a source for news for people who are tired of the mainstream media (that last phrasing is directly from their site). On bloggingzoom, only content coming from blogs is allowed, and nothing from the mainstream media.I have just written one article which is now in my ‘upcoming posts’, but it has still given me some hits for whatever reason.
   From what I read, people are getting a lot of success from their bloggingzoom traffic!
2. Use MyBlogLog to SOCIALIZE WITH OTHER BLOGGERS
   Socializing with other bloggers and people within your niche have always been a KEY for getting people to read my blogs and websites regularly. If you write about interesting things, people will want to read your blog, of course – but then they have to know that you exist.I have signed up at MyBlogLog.com, which is a Yahoo service for socializing with other bloggers, kind of a community -ish service. My profile is also to be found http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/holm/

3. Use EzineArticles to GET EXPOSURE
   EzineArticles is a very strict article site, but I am trying to get in there anyways – because from what I have heard, it will give you a whole ton of traffic for each and one of the articles you write for them.
   I have written one article which is in for review, I am not sure if maybe the text formatting screwed up my posting – but they will probably respond within a week or so… I hope.. But according to big bloggers, this one is supposed to be very very good.
4. Use technorati to track your popularity, get exposure, etc.
   Technorati is a blog search engine which aims in tracking blog postings and comments and so on.
   I find that technorati is widely used to track the blogs popularity.
5. Post new stories frequently
   I am sad to say that I haven’t really followed up on that on this blog, while my Networking with Cisco blog has been updated several times per day. Anyways, I find that I get more traffic when I post a new post, but that’s a lot of stuff like automatic RPC services and search engines indexing the new page.

   But along with the search engines, I get real visitors from feeds, extra exposure at all the places my blog is broadcasted, Google tends to love me more when I update frequently and there are basically no negative effects so far. Well, except that I had a comment from a person complaining about spending too much time reading my blog – but that sort of things are the thing pushing me forward.

6. Use Twingly for EXTRA EXPOSURE
   Twingly has emerged lately and are have proven me actually with a lot of referals.
   The two largest Norwegian media (newspaper) sites VG and Dagbladet uses twingly in their articles, and so some Norwegian bloggers like a good personal friend of mine, DeeWoo, actually had a massive amount of hits from a couple of the articles he commented on with a trackback link.
   Don’t think about pagerank, the websites displays your URL by loading a twingly javascript, so the Googlebot will not find your ‘direct links’, I am sorry!

7. Use forums to socialize
   I have registered on a couple of forums, and I am seeing some traffic from these forums.
   They are often VERY focused on niches, so the traffic you will receive is often very very good targeted traffic from people who are genuinely interested in your subject – just like you!

Tags: readers, socialize, traffic