How to make your blog more popular.

Catherine Greenman in this New York Times article, explores what extents bloggers go to make their blogs more popular.

Some of the methods mentioned there include:

• Paying sites who put up links to sponsors' sites


• Getting noticed by Doc Searl


• Mentioning Blog URLs on email signatures

Not to be outdone, Robert Scoble has a unique (read Microsoft)way to spike traffic on his site: He poses naked

But one sure fire way of getting at least 5000 visitors is to get picked up by Slashdot like this post on Micah Alpern's blog (check the Nedstats link on the bottom.)

Of course, most of the methods mentioned above are only short term solutions to increasing traffic. What really matters is the content on your site. There is no substitute to quality...

BTW I'm seeing a lot of blogging related articles on NY Times lately, are they trying to use bloggers to get their online readership numbers up? Anybody else feel the same?

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