As your blog’s content increases, people in your niche will definitely
mention you for intelligent or interesting discussions.
This is, in a sense, an
initiation of an interaction. When people speak of you, you should thank them
for the mention and build up the interaction!
When you use a traffic tracking script such as the free www.statcounter.com, you can see where
traffic comes from.
If a large number of visitors come from a certain blog, you
can be sure they have mentioned you in their latest post or linked to you from
their sidebar or links page. What you should do is pay them a visit, leave
constructive comments on their posts, and build up a conversation!
As you continue doing this, you will start to gather a lot of friends in
your niche. This is helpful later on when you decide to do collaborations such
as interviews.
In fact, when you’re out of ideas for writing on your blog, you
can interview other blog owners in your niche! Human beings are curious
creatures, so naturally they would like to know more about a person whose
writings they read so often.
Repost trackback links on your posts if you use WordPress, Textpattern, MovableType, or any other sophisticated blog engine. You can now write an article about something that someone else has posted! The link to the post you wrote about will then be displayed in your specific post.
about a post on a very famous blog. Since the famous blog already has a
pre-existing pool of readers, this is like a shortcut to hog their visitors!
The only thing you would want to observe is to keep your posts sensible and
insightful, or you’ll be viewed as a spammer.
On the other hand, trackback links would not work if you were using Blogger. On the other hand, you can leave thoughtful comments on other people’s blogs and discreetly provide a backlink to your own.
you’re pointing to your blog as an extra reference to the subject of
discussion. Of course, this technique is not only limited to Blogger users and users
of other blog engines can employ this strategy as an additional traffic source.