My blogging experience.
I have to admit that this blog you are reading now, is a failure. The result I’m getting from this blog is not what I wanted. I follow the old school way, I make this more like an online journal, I post entries about stuffs that I’ve tried, things that I like. Debian GNU Linux is apparently the thing I like most and willing to discuss about. I did not expect a huge respond when I decided to start out this blog, seriously Linux is not a common topic, compared to everything else out there on the Internet.
It looks funny to me, as this blog is ranking 394,279 on Alexa today. As I said I did not expect this, average 100 unique visitors per day and it is still climbing. I have a total of 54 posts in this blog, and guess what? 18 comments so far, and I believe some of those comments were my replies to previous comment posters. Now HOW SAD IS THIS?? I have to whine, really.
I am a frequent user of irc.freenode.net, I park in channel #debian all day long. When I see questions that I’ve experienced with, I try my best to answer them. Sometimes the other way round, someone answers to my questions. I am so used to that environment, you get to see lines like “hi, can someone help me?”, “thanks a lot!”, “dude, you’re the best!” a lot, people care to help and people care to show gratitude.
So you get what I wanted most in this blog? COMMENT, instead of traffic. I only got one comment saying thanks to me, and another one correcting my mistake, that’s all I remember. Is my english bad, my writing sucks big time? Do my tweaking tips work? All these remain unknown. Maybe I just don’t worth 5 seconds of my post reader’s time to comment. Okay, my whining stops here. Followings are my personal experience on some tips that actually drove traffic to my blog here. I hope you will find some of these useful to you.
- Content
You surely read this line “Content Is King!” a lot on the Internet. This is a universal golden rule that has been proven by countless of webmasters, excluding me. I don’t know if I’m a quality content provider or not, but according to so many famous websites, blogs, services online, this is something undeniable. - Ping Services
This is a wonderful technology. After you have posted a new entry, just use these services to ping your blog, they will grab your latest updates and submit to various blog search engines, very handy tool. WordPress has pingomatic built-in, I personally use another service pingoat.com. - Social Bookmarks
Submit your post to various social bookmark services. People with interest on the same topic will find your page eventually. I normally submit my post to digg.com. Perhaps you will find this wordpress plugin Sociable useful. It has a collection of social bookmark services that you can choose to enable in your blog posts. - Pingbacks
When you write about something with references, always give credits, link back to the original source. This is a good practice, if the original source is a blog, you post’s excerpt will most likely listed in the comment list, with your post’s permalink. So this is a karma thing, if you ask me. - Featuring
This has a lot to do with your content. Some of my posts got featured somewhere with high traffics, like this particular post “Using Tor and Privoxy in Firefox Web Browser” has been featured on several firefox tip sites. I got inspired by this book and messed around a bit with the Tor installation. - Forums
This is not a bad idea. Some forums allow you to have HTML signature on the bottom of every post of yours, place your blog address there. Be active in the forums you like, answer to questions, make new friends, some traffic will flow back to your blog. 
Above are my tested tips on generating traffic to my blog. Please don’t overuse the free services listed. These tips guarantee traffic in certain degree, but not the comment you will get. All the best blogging!
Last but not least, GIVE ME YOUR TWO CENTS IN RETURN!
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