BRING TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG

Here are few steps to build up traffic for your blog :

· Use lists.

· Be topical.

· Write posts that need to be read right now.

· Learn enough to become the expert in your field.

· Break news.

· Be timeless.

· write posts that will be readable in a year.

· Be among the first with a great blog on your topic, then encourage others to blog on the same topic.

· Share your expertise generously so people recognize it and depend on you.

· Announce news.

· Write short, pithy posts.

· Encourage your readers to help you manipulate the technorati top blog list.

· Don't write about your family members or relatives.

· Write long, definitive posts.

· Be snarky. Write nearly libelous things about fellow bloggers, daring them to respond (with links back to you) on their blog.

· Be sycophantic. Share linklove and expect some back.

· Include polls, meters and other eye candy.

· Tag your posts. Use del.ico.us.

· Coin a term or two.

· Do email interviews with the well-known.

· Answer your email.

· Use photos. Salacious ones are best.

· Be anonymous.

· Encourage your readers to digg,stumble your posts. (and to usefurl and redit) Do it with every post.

· Post your photos on flicker.

· Encourage your readers to subscribe by RSS.

· Start at the beginning and take your readers through a months-long education.

· Include comments so your blog becomes a virtual water cooler that feeds itself.

· Assume that every day is the beginning, because you always have new readers.

· Highlight your best posts on your Squidoo ens.

· Point to useful but little-known resources.

· Write about stuff that appeals to the majority of current blog readers--like gadgets and web 2.0. Write about Google.

· Have relevant ads that are even better than your content.

· Don't include comments, people will cross post their responses.

· Write posts that each include dozens of trackbacks to dozens of blog posts so that people will notice you.

· Run no ads.

· Keep tweaking your template to make it include every conceivable bell or whistle.

· Write about blogging.

· Digest the good ideas of other people, all day, every day.

· Invent a whole new kind of art or interaction.

· Post on weekdays, because there are more readers.

· Write about a never-ending parade of different topics so you don't bore your readers.

· Post on weekends, because there are fewer new posts.

· Don't interrupt your writing with a lot of links.

· Dress your blog (fonts and design) as well as you would dress yourself for a meeting with a stranger.

· Edit yourself. Ruthlessly.

· Don't promote yourself and your business or your books or your projects at the expense of the reader's attention.

· Be patient.

· Give credit to those that inspired, it makes your writing more useful.

· Ping technorati. Or have someone smarter than me tell you how to do it automatically.

· Write about only one thing, in ever-deepening detail, so you become definitive.

· Write in English.

· Write about obscure stuff that appeals to an obsessed minority.

· Don't be boring.

· Write stuff that people want to read and share.

· Feel free to post your own ideas (satirical or otherwise) in the comments below.