Its really frustrating when you spend hours,even days to compile awesome content but only a handful of people do appreciate the hard work,so its really necessary for us bloggers to have a constant inflow of readers(loyal).Targetted traffic is difficult to obtain,I have a four month old blog and with a monthly hit rate of 15,000 which I think is quite decent.No doubt that for a loyal reader base you need to have quality content but there is so much good stuff on the net that you need to be noticed in the crowd.So here I share the steps I implemented to be noticed.
Using digg,stumbleupon and other social content distribution sites are preety good options,but the problem with these sites are the more active and interactive you are with the community the better are your chances of visibility.
Commenting on blogs of your niche is really important because its here that you do get noticed by the audience you are aiming at,but do not comment for the heck of it,and please do not spam ever.
Being a part of forum and interacting with the community helps, more than any other (atleast for me),so be a genuine contributor to the community and reap the benefits.
If you have decent links to your blog,you might be picked up by the search engines which is pretty important because search engines channels people who are genuinely searching for stuff.
Have a facebook page for your blog,my facebook fan page which has around 400 members also give me daily constant traffic.
Twitter is the new hip traffic puller,my 4200 odd followers do bring me decent traffic,so work on increasing your followers and just watch the hit counter ticking.
Blogrolling helps,being featured on others blog is one of the better things that can happen to your blog(hey why not blogroll me and i will return the favour leave a comment here)
Have a RSS feed because the more tech savvy of your readers prefer that and higher number of suscribers gives your blog a credibility.
The above strategies will give you the intial push but if you want loyal readership write great stuff and enjoy blogging.
