10 techniques for finding blog readers

It's become a mission of mine to get more readers, and expand my readership beyond friends, family and work mates.

Out of all the information I've read so far about attracting more readers, I've found a beauty of a post written by Yaro Starak.

Rather than copy and paste (is that stealing?!) their entire article, I've bullet pointed the top 10 techniques. You can find the entire article here.

1. Write at least five major pillar articles
2. Write one new blog post per day minimum
3. Use a proper domain name
4. Start commenting on other blogs
5. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts
6. Encourage comments on your own blog
7. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival
8. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com
9. Submit your articles to ezineArticles.com
10. Write more pillar articles

Note to self: Is my blog turning into a blog about blogging?

New born blogs

My blog's not even a week old.

How will it look one year from now. That's assuming I'm still loving it after a year?!

I hear that 3 months is a good indication as to whether you're going to stick at it or not. I've read so many blog related stories this past week, and to be honest, it's easy to become overwhelmed in blogworld.

There's so much information out there on blogging alone, and I guess it depends on what you want to achieve, what your goals are and what makes you happy, but cutting through all the information, tools, resource and advice is pretty difficult when you're a newbie like me.

There's simply too much going on!

I'm not about to quit, far from it, and I guess one of my short term goals is to climb this learning curve and eventually pull together some kind of hit list to help blogging beginners and newbies like me.

For starters, I think item one on the hit list will be 'getting traffic'.

Not that I'm looking for short-cuts or anything, but if there's anyone out there who could help, I'd really appreciate it!

Maybe one year from now, on my blog's birthday, I'll look back on this as a well seasoned blogging veteran and smile.