Blog Traffic: Tell People About Your Blog
Congratulations! You are now a blogger. Now, you may begin to feel as though you are shouting into an empty bucket: “Hello. . . ! Is anyone out there?” It can begin to feel rather lonely. When you’ve created your first few posts, you will likely want to think about how you can “advertise” your blog’s existence, or “presence” on the Internet. One way to do this is word-of-mouth: Tell friends and associates, and ask if they will spread the word. Another way is to register or list your blog on blog search engines. There are many blog search engines you can choose from, and you can even choose several. Here’s a selection from a recent Google search:

· Feedster: Feedster This one is for RSS feeds
· FeedBurner: FeedBurner
· IceRocket: IceRocket
· BlogExplosion: Blog Explosion
· Blogdex: Blogdex
· Blogarama: Blogarama
· Blogdigger: Blogdigger
· Bloglines: Bloglines

You can register your blog for free with any or all of these or other search engines. Blogger.com also offers helpful suggestions to help increase traffic to your blog. Find them here. Once you have your blog established with just a few posts and have registered with the blog search engines of your choice, the next step is to let those search engine sites know when you’ve updated your blog. You can do so by pinging the sites. As with most things that are blog-related today, you have several pinging services, such as Pingoat to choose from. Here is one site I found that provides a list of several pinging services you can choose from; you can use more than one pinging service as well.