BlogSoldiers

The most important technique for attracting an audience is your Blog's uniqueness and the level of interest it holds for the reader. There are literally thousands of Blogs, and with the recent popularity and the interest generated by the media. Sources state that there are over 9 Million Blogs online with over 40,000 new blogs being added daily. Personal diaries, unless you are incredibly creative or an amazingly interesting individual, are unlikely to gain much popularity beyond friends, family and the occasional visitor. News sites, without interesting and unique information are likely to have the same undramatic effect, thus ending up being abandoned by the creator. This isn't to suggest that these sites are bad, and unwelcome. Quite the opposite, since that is what makes the Internet and Blogs such a great culture. We publish what we want. It's just very unlikely that you will sustain any degree of notoriety and large number of site hits.

I'm not suggesting that unique means a unique topic. Since a unique sense of humour can also make a site popular. For instance, Rage Boy's EGR Weblog, uses some humour to set himself apart from other Bloggers.

If you become pro-active in your daily routine, your chances of increasing traffic to your Blog will greatly increase. Thus, the creation of BlogSoldiers, a traffic exchange designed specifically for Bloggers. Blog Exchanges are relatively new and an untapped market. A very powerful and affordable venue to increase the popularity of your Blog. Providing a venue like this doesn't guarantee people will read your Blog, you still need to be unique with your content.

Give it a try. I think you'll like what you see. BlogSoldiers.com

Pat Lovell