How to get traffic for your blog
This list is from Seth Godin's Blog
I should note it was stolen shamelessly so that I would remember to implement some of them here.
- Use lists.
- Be topical... write posts that need to be read right now.
- Learn enough to become the expert in your field.
- [Break](http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060602-090915) news.
- Be timeless... write posts that will be readable in a year.
- Be among the [first](http://www.instapundit.com/) 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](http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/06/make-date-with-adsense-calendar.html) news.
- Write short, pithy posts.
- Encourage your readers to help you manipulate the technorati [top blog list.](http://www.technorati.com/pop/blogs/)
- Don't write about your [cat,](http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/09/whos_there_the_.html) your boyfriend or your kids.
- Write long, definitive posts.
- Write about your [kids.](http://www.dooce.com/)
- 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.](http://del.icio.us/)
- Coin a term or two.
- Do email interviews with the well-known.
- Answer your [email.](mailto:sethgodin@yahoo.com)
- Use photos. Salacious ones are best.
- Be [anonymous.](http://atrios.blogspot.com/)
- Encourage your readers to [digg](http://digg.com/) your posts. (and to use [furl](http://furl.net/) and [reddit).](http://reddit.com/) Do it with every post.
- Post your photos on [flickr](http://www.flickr.com/).
- [Encourage](http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/11/rss_three_month.html) your readers to subscribe by RSS.
- Start at the [beginning](http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/2002/08/25.html) 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](http://www.squidoo.com/seth) lens.
- [Point](http://www.kk.org/cooltools/) to useful but little-known resources.
- Write about stuff that appeals to the majority of current blog readers--like [gadgets](http://www.engadget.com/) 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](http://postsecret.blogspot.com/) 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](http://www.technorati.com/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.
- Better, write in [Chinese.](http://blog.sina.com.cn/m/xujinglei)
- Write about [obscure](http://www.unboxing.com/) stuff that appeals to an obsessed minority.
- Don't be boring.
- **Write stuff that people want to read and share.**