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Use social bookmarking websites like digg.com and http://www.npgb.org
This will gain you traffic and backlinks

Join blog directories!

Originally Posted by Nathand

How do you guys get traffic to your blogs? I've submitted my blog (hate-windows.com) to a bunch of blog directories, but still don't get much traffic.

What do you guys do to promote your blogs?

Nathan

through Social bookmarking and social networking

Link to your friends blog, and linking each other and you get much more traffic !

You can also try bidvertiser , i think they had a $20 free advertising offer once, google it i guess :/

What are yalls favorite social bookmarking sites?

I haven't gotten any hits from reddit, delicious, furl, or twitter.

I comment on others' blogs, sig's on forums, and try to network with those in my field (I talk to other gamers, programmers, and developers). It has been successful thus far.

Leslie I'm not sure how long you've commenting etc, but give it time. It does work, but not necessarily right away. The key is consistency and making sure you are adding something to the conversation. If you make a quick one line comment every so often and leave it's not going to help, but if you continue to add value to the discussion you will get noticed and people will start visiting your blog.

I leave quality, value posts.

I wasn't questioning that. Sorry if it came across that way. I was mostly trying to let you know to hang in there. It does work in time and will start to drive traffic to your blog.

well, i'm promoting my blog on various seo tips i got on the net. submit articles to directories, use rss, post it in my myspace, friendster account, use squidoo, and other feed sites. so far it brings traffic to my blog a little. but right now my traffic is still dependent on search engine results that is why i am optimizing keywords on my content to get on the top of the search results.

Originally Posted by Jbradley89

Join blog directories!

blog directories are good but they do bring a little traffic. at the moment i'm getting a slice of my traffic from article directories and social networking sites..

Create content people like, and find useful
Use appropriate keywords
Participate in discussions that have relevance to your content
Submit your blog to directories in the appropriate categories
Tweak your site to make things easier for your readers to read you. CSS, RSS,
If you solicit comments, make it easy, but install filters to weed out spam
Rinse and Repeat.
Stay with it for a while, 6 months to a year.

That's the basics I think. Anyone else care to add to the list?

Hi Nathan,
Submitting ur Blog to any directories will not gonna help you out.
You need to do some SEO work to increase the popularity of your blog.
First, you need to have some kind of unique contents in to ur Blog.
Then after You need to submit your Blog to these three Major Search Engines Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Now you can do relevant comment on other's Blog with your Blog Address. As many different comments to different Blogs will give much more popularity to ur Blog.
After doing these basic things try to search regarding SEO of Blog. This can give you various methods of Optimizing your Blog for search engines.

@2synapses: thanks for mentioning 6 months to a year. i do read a lot that this type of stuff can take some time, but i've been curious as to how much time exactly, before some traffic begins to accumulate.

For me to get traffic to my blog, I usually focus more on creating quality and interesting content. I make it sure that every article that I wrote will be informative and enjoyable to read so that they will keep on coming visiting my blog for more updates. I also include images on my blog and optimize them because this also effective to drive more traffic to your blog through google image search.

Most of my traffic comes from forums.

Don't just regenerate content ideas from other people. Create your own CREATIVE content! Think outside of the box and write some funky cool stuff. Even make up some false things about Windows That will get you some attention!