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Here are 64 ways to get traffic to your blog:

1. Join MyBlogLog: add friends and join communities
2. Sign up for Technorati: ping it when your blog changes
3. Use a ping service like pingomatic
4. Submit your blog to all of the blog directories
5. Use trackbacks
6. Leave comments on blogs in related niches
7. Tell your friends about your blog
8. Put your blog URL in your forum signatures
9. Tell Your newsletter subscribers about your blog
10. Write press releases for your blog
11. Link to other peoples blogs in your posts
12. Tag your posts using Technorati tags or a tag plug-in
13. Use Stumbleupon
14. Answer questions on Yahoo
15. Answer questions on forums
16. Use pictures in your blog posts
17. Use video on your blog
18. Find out what people want to learn about in your blog’s niche and write about it
19. Be the first to break a news story
20. Use keyword research to find good keywords to use in your posts
21. Write controversial posts
22. Strongly Agree or strongly disagree with other bloggers and write about it with a link to their post
23. Make it easy for your readers to sign up for your RSS feed
24. Make it easy for your readers to Digg your posts
25. Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, etc.)
26. Interview well known people in your industry
27. Give credit to the blogs that inspire your posts
28. Don’t be boring
29. Write for beginners
30. Participate in blog carnivals
31. Post at different times of the day
32. Submit your best posts to article directories
33. Have guest posters
34. Submit your blog to regular web directories
35. Trade blog roll links with related blogs
36. Add a plug-in to notify users of new comments
37. Make it easy for your visitors to submit your post to ALL social bookmarking sites (not just Digg)
38. Make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your blog
39. Make it easy for people to link to your blog
40. Use easy to read fonts
41. Use a professional looking blog design
42. Make your blog easy to navigate
43. Highlight your most popular posts
44. Use questions for the title of your blog posts
45. Use good keywords in your post titles
46. Reply to every question you get through email
47. Reply to every question you get on your blog
48. E-mail other bloggers about your really good posts
49. Offer free stuff like ebooks
50. Publish videos on YouTube
51. Install a translation plug-in for other languages
52. Put Your blog URL on everything like business cards and stationary
53. Add a forum
54. Join Hubpages and post links to your blog
55. Make a Squidoo lens with a link to your blog
56. Tell people you will link back to them if they review your blog
57. Join Blog Catalog
58. Create a MySpace and Facebook page
59. Use SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
60. Use good grammar
61. Write a post about the top bloggers in your niche
62. Promote your posts on newsgroups
63. Post frequently
64. Make a list of ways to increase your blog traffic

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There are so many ways that you can get traffic to your blog. You can pay for traffic to your blog or you can get it for free through many sources. One effect way you can get more traffic to your blog is to use a list. Here are some reasons why lists are useful for getting traffic to your blog:

Lists are easy to scan through: As we all know, many online users are very lazy. Using a list can make it easier for your readers to navigate through some main points on a topic.

Lists look very neat: Lists are nicely formatted and easy to read. They don’t look messy.

Lists are easy to link to: Since a list is a summary of a topic’s main points, they are very easy to link to.

Lists can be comprehensive: They can give you all of the most important facts about a topic.

Lists can be persuasive: Since lists can highlight the major points of a topic, they can sway someone’s opinion on a certain subject or topic.

Lists can add to the ease of writing: Lists are easy to write so they are easy to follow. I always like to read lists because of their simplicity.

So as you can see, using lists on your blog can be very useful. The reasons I have stated above are the reasons why lists are useful. But you have to make sure you use lists in an effective way in your blog so that you can get as much traffic to your blog as possible.

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Deciding on which type of blog theme or template to use for your blog can be a very difficult choice to make. You can either invest in a custom template or theme or you can use a free or premade template for your blog. There are factors you should consider when deciding whether to use a custom or premade blog template.

Here are some factors to consider:

Premade Blog Templates

Pros
They are free!! Everyone doesn’t mind getting something for free.

There is a wide selection to choose from. If you have a popular blogging platform like Blogger or Wordpress, you will be able to find a suitable template without a problem.

There are always new templates out there. Web designers are always creating new templates so there are always fresh templates to choose from or to switch to.

Cons
They are not unique. Other bloggers may be using the same template that you are. Who wants to see the same template on every blog?

The best templates are used by everyone. There are only a select amount of templates out there that everyone wants. If this is the case, again, you will see so many blogs using the same template. This gets boring after awhile.

Custom Blog Templates

Pros
They are very unique. People will not have the same template as you do because you can have your template customized any way you want.

Helps you stand out from the rest. Having a customized blog template will help people remember your blog. They will keep returning to your blog which is a very good thing.

Customized templates are usually much attractive. Designers put more effort into their custom templates rather than the free ones. They make them look more appealing to bloggers.

Cons
Custom templates can be expensive. I have seen custom templates range anywhere from $200 to about $4000. I don’t know who would pay $4000 for a custom template but there are bloggers out there who would. I am sure most bloggers stick to the lower amount. This is really the only con when deciding to choose a custom template though.

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