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More Traffic

Attention all my eyeranian friends who write me asking about the best ways to attract more readers to your blog. I don't blame you. It's more fun when your stuff is actually read by a bunch of people and you are recognized by the guy checking your passport in the airport or run into someone you never met and he asks how your ill father is. There's also the problem of people sending you vicious messages, try to break into your PC and occasional suspicious messages who offer you a "job" by some scholarly type who speaks perfect Farsi but can't tell you much about the secret project and let's not forget the mass email of viruses to your system, but it is still interesting to direct new traffic to your blogs. However, many of you aren't taking even the most basic steps to do that! Here's an example:

I told you about BlogRolling but I still see many blogs updated without pinging blogrolling.com. This is a service that more and more bloggers are using and if you have links on other sites, this may be the only way people would know you have new stuff to read or see. Why would they visit you if they aren't expecting new posts? C'mon! start doing it today! It works, trust me! Ping awa!y!

One more suggestion: please link to your favorite blogs in your posts. People who enjoy your stuff, probably enjoy stuff you enjoy too. If we all did this (and I'm guilty of not doing that enough myself), we will all build a steady following of people who enjoy our stuff and more importantly, like free entertainment! Let's do it, deal?

Posted by Pedram at November 14, 2003 11:59 PM