Well, I think this post has been in the waiting since a long time now. Most of the readers of the blog and some of my friends have pursued me to write this piece!!

Okay, so without any vague stuff, i would probably share the basic points every blogger must keep and take care of to increase the traffic!!

Increase TRAFFIC to your Blog

1. Concentrate on the topic… write posts that need to be read right now.
2. Talk like an expert (so you have to have enough knowledge about the subject you are writing about).
3. If you can break news nothing better!!
4. Start a topic which has not been started before by many (be amongst the first few) and let people discuss about it in their blogs/posts etc
5. Share your expertise generously so people recognize it and depend on you
6. Encourage your readers to help you manipulate the technorati top blog list.
7. Don’t write about your wife, your boyfriend or your kids.
8. Write long, definitive posts.
9. Write neat things about fellow bloggers, daring them to respond (with links back to you) on their blog.
10. Share linklove and expect some back.
11. Include polls, meters and other eye candy.
12. Tag your posts. Use del.ico.us.
13. Coin a term or two
14. Do email interviews with the well-known
15. Answer your email.
16. Use photos with right tags and names to them
17. Encourage your readers to digg your posts. (and to use furl and reddit). Do it with every post.
18. Post your photos on flickr.
19. Share your blog posts links over Twitter
20. Encourage your readers to subscribe by RSS.
21. Include comments so your blog becomes a virtual water cooler that feeds itself.
22. Assume that every day is the beginning, because you always have new readers.
23. Highlight your best posts on your Squidoo lens.
24. Refer to useful but little-known resources.
25. Write about stuff that appeals to the majority of current blog readers–like gadgets and web 2.0.
26. Write about Google.
27. Have relevant ads that are even better than your content.
28. Write posts that each include dozens of trackbacks to dozens of blog posts so that people will notice you.
29. Keep tweaking your template to make it include all the nice stuff that would make it easier for people to share and take you further!!
30. Write about blogging.
31. Digest the good ideas of other people, all day, every day.
32. Invent a whole new kind of art or interaction.
33. Post on weekdays, because there are more readers.
34. Write about a whole gamut of different topics so you don’t bore your readers.
35. Post on weekends, because there are fewer new posts.
36. Don’t interrupt your writing with a lot of links.
37. Dress your blog (fonts and design) as well as you would dress yourself for a meeting with a stranger.
38. Don’t promote yourself and your business or your books or your projects at the expense of the reader’s attention
39. Be patient
40. Give credit to those that inspired, it makes your writing more useful
41. Write about events
42. Write about only one thing, in ever-deepening detail, so you become definitive
43. Write about stuff that attracts a community. You will instantly find a large number of visitors there
44. Don’t be boring.

Finally write stuff that people want to “Read and Share”

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