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  There are many factors that make blogs much better than normal WebPages including the speed at which blogs are indexed, the ability to submit to blog directories & normal directories, pings, and trackbacks. All these little things can help drive more traffic to blogs. Here are 15 popular techniques you can use:   1.) Create at least four keyword posts per day. Most of the top blogs such as Boing Boing, Daily Kos, and Instapundit (with literally tens of thousands of visitors per day) publish an average of 30 small 100-150 word posts per day according to "Secrets of the A-list Bloggers: Lots of Short Posts" by http://TNL.net   2.) Submit to My Yahoo! When you submit your own RSS to My Yahoo it is indexed by Yahoo.   3.) Submit to Google's Reader. When you submit your own blog RSS to Google's Reader the Google Blog Search will index your site.   4.) Add a relevant link directory to your blog and trade links. Although it may take more time th...

  1. Make sure your posts are optimized with popular keywords. I would be careful with this one because you don’t want to lose your blogging voice or make your pages read awkwardly by jamming in as many keywords as you can. Do check for the most popular keywords in your universe, though, using a tool like WordTracker. As a poster on SitePoint said, using the competition values in WordTracker allows you to pick keywords that haven’t soaked the web yet.   2. Use a service like PinGoat to ping blogger indexing sites every time you change your site. Pinging is basically extending an invitation to indexing services like Technorati, IceRocket, and Feedster to come to your site and index it. The more indexing you get, the more exposure you get. PinGoat is a terrific service that pings them all at the same time.   3. Update your Google Sitemap every few posts and resubmit it. Google Sitemap is an interesting and amazing phenomenon. Here is how Google explains it: ...