We already talked a bit about how to get traffic on your blog but I have picked up a couple of new "tricks" recently that I thought I'd share.
If you're blogging about a particular interest that you also explore online, then you probably know some resource sites for that interest.
In my case, where my subject matter is primarily video games, I use the gaming news site Blue's News all the time.
After I created my post based on game developer feedback, as discussed in my previous post, I thought that this might actually be a post that was worthy of being mentioned on Blue's News.
So, again without any hope of success really, I sent a mail off to Blue's News submission address and let them know I had made this post and included the link.
Great was my surprise when the very same day I saw a full post had been made on Blue's News with a link to my blog post.
Now, this is a fairly niche site and a 4 question Q&A on a small indie game is not going to set the community on fire, so the actual extra traffic it generated was fairly modest, but I felt incredibly proud that *my* post had made it onto the game news site that I visit almost every single day.
This spurred me on of course, and when I later posted a review of the same game "Orcs Must Die!" on my blog, I submitted the review to Blue's News and sure enough, it made it into their daily reviews round up.
So the lesson here is that even if you think your post is nothing special and your favorite internet site is much too big and important to want to post stuff that you have made all by your lonesome self, just go ahead and give it a shot!
Even if you don't get a massive influx of new traffic, the sense of pride and being able to point at it and say "I made it here! My stuff is good enough that these guys want to link to it" is a massive boost to your blogging motivation.
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