Blog tips

I started this blog in Sep of 2008 and for the first couple of months my traffic was really low - down in the few hundreds of visitors a day. It was pretty depressing I can tell you and there were times when I even thought about quitting. 

Fortunately, I decided to keep on posting but also to do my utmost to drive traffic to my site. I took a look around at what some of the successful blogs were doing and came up with ten tactics that helped to double my website traffic in a month.

1. Develop relationship with successful actors, especially Ned Beatty

2. Be cheeky about religion

3. Steal Marion Webster's word of the day and shoehorn into postings

4. Pretend to like classical music

5. Review music you've never so much as even heard

6. Steal Robin Cooper persona from Time Wasters Letters/Diaries

7. Talk about South Africa as if you were actually there

8. Effect magnetic relationship with animals à la Dr Doolittle

9. Speak to people in real life. They'll almost always say something stupid

10.Throw shoes at the American military

Using these simple techniques, I took my blog from a few hundred hits a day into the thousands in less than 30 days. I’m convinced that these actions I took at the early stages have helped me create a loyal and targeted readership that continues to benefit from my blog today.