Tips to increase Blog traffic ?

Simple Ways to Get Your Blog
Noticed in the Blogosphere
The blogosphere is a big and busy
world with over 100 million blogs
and growing. How do you attract
visitors to your blog? Follow these
simple tips to drive traffic to your
blog.

1. Write Well and Write Often:

Frequently updating your blog with
useful content is the first step to
building your blog's audience. The
content you write is what will keep
readers coming back for more.
Make sure you have something
meaningful to say to them and say
it often to maintain their interest
and keep them loyal.
Furthermore, post frequently to
increase the number of chances
you have for your blog's content to
be noticed by search engines such
as Google or Technorati.

2. Submit Your Blog to Search
Engines:

Get on the radar screen for the
popular search engines such as
Google and Yahoo! by submitting
your blog's URL to them. Most
search engines provide a 'Submit'
link (or something similar) to
notify the search engine of your
new blog, so those search engines
will crawl it and include your
pages in their results.
It's important to understand that
simply submitting your blog to
search engines doesn't mean your
pages will appear at the top of a
Google search results screen, but
at least your blog will be included
and will have the chance of being
picked up by a search engine.

3. Use and Update Your Blogroll:

By adding links to sites you like in
your blogroll , the owners of those
blogs will find your blog and will
be likely to add a reciprocal link in
their blogrolls. It's an easy way to
get the link to your blog in front of
many readers on other blogs. The
hope is that some of those readers
will click on the link to your blog
on the other blogs' blogrolls and
find your content interesting and
enjoyable turning them into loyal
readers.

4. Harness the Power of
Comments:

Commenting is a simple and
essential tool to increase your
blog's traffic. First, respond to
comments left on your blog to
show your readers that you value
their opinions and draw them into
a two-way conversation. This will
increase reader loyalty.
Second, leave comments on other
blogs to drive new traffic. Make
sure you leave your blog's URL in
your comment, so you create a link
back to your own blog. Many
people will read the comments left
on a blog post. If they read a
particularly interesting comment,
they are highly likely to click on
the link to visit the commentor's
website. It's important to make
sure you leave meaningful
comments that are likely to invite
people to click on your link to read
more.

5. Syndicate Your Blog's:

Content with an RSS Feed
Setting up an RSS feed button on
your blog makes it easy for your
loyal readers to not just read your
blog but also know when you
publish new content.

6. Use Links and Trackbacks:

Links are one of the most powerful
parts of your blog. Not only are
links noticed by search engines,
but they also act as a tap on the
shoulder to other bloggers who can
easily identify who is linking to
their sites. Linking helps to get
you noticed by other bloggers who
are likely to investigate the sites
that are linking to them. This may
lead them to become new readers
of your blog or to add links to your
blog from theirs.
You can take links to other blogs a
step further by leaving a trackback
on the other blog to let them know
you've linked to them. Blogs that
allow trackbacks will include a link
back to your blog in the comments
section of the post that you
originally linked to. People do click
on trackback links!

7. Tag Your Posts:

It takes a few extra seconds to add
tags to each of your blog posts,
but it's worth the time in terms of
the additional traffic tags can
drive to your blog. Tags (like links)
are easily noticed by search
engines. They're also key to
helping readers find your blog
when they perform searches on
popular blog search engines such
as Technorati.

8. Submit Your Posts to Social
Bookmarking Sites:

Taking the time to submit your
best posts to social bookmarking
sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon ,
Reddit and more can be a simple
way to quickly boost traffic to your
blog.

9. Remember Search Engine
Optimization:
When you write your blog posts
and pages, remember to optimize
your pages for search engines to
find them. Include relevant
keywords and links but don't
overload your posts with too many
relevant keywords or completely
irrelevant keywords. Doing so can
be considered spamming and could
have negative results such as your
blog being removed from Google's
search entirely

10. Don't Forget Images:
Images don't just make your blog
look pretty, they also help people
find you in search engine listings.
People often use the image search
options offered by Google, Yahoo!
and other search engines, and
naming your images with search
engine optimization in mind can
easily boost your traffic.