First you would need to write about what people are either searching for or wanting to read about.
Although I started writing this blog in 2005, I've only just started tracking visitors. Google added a 'stats' section in July of 2010. Before that, I would only track the number of referrals being sent to my Engineering Data Base. So as of 7/2010 this blog has had 15,334 pageviews, according to the data in the blog Dashboard.
Over the last 24 hours the blog received hits for posting made in 2005, 06, 07 and 2010, which should indicate that older pages still bring in traffic. That's not to say stop writing, because one of the highest page views relates to a review I wrote just 3 months ago. However the counter did just start working 6 months before that.
So sometimes I'll blog about a new product I just purchased, or review a software package I just tried. It seems that a blog posting reviewing a product brings in a lot of visits, I guess people want to find out if they should buy it as well. Many of my posting center around some electrical engineering topic, standard, or interface bus which all bring in traffic [but to a lesser degree].
Adding a graphic might also help with increasing your blog traffic, as the blog may now show up in a pic search, in addition to a web or blog only search.
The attached photo of an graphic equalizer has nothing to do with this posting topic, but it serves to introduce the links I'm adding.
Some posts are more self serving, when I post about a new page addition to the web site; however some of those posts might also serve to introduce a new product as well.
For example a week ago I added a few new pages to the engineering site, which have yet to be spidered. So what better way to get them found, than by adding them to a blog posting [and they relate to the audio pic].
A Passive Audio Base Control Circuit.
A Passive Treble Control Schematic.
A Midrange Audio Control Example.
In fact these pages have been indexed because they come up in an on-site search, but have as yet received any page views. Of course that could just be that no one is interested in a simple audio control schematic.
This blog sends about 100 visitors over to the engineering site as referring traffic. That's compared to the 2,000 plus page views the blog receives. However in the past I was promoting the web site a bit more at the bottom of this blog than I am now. Back in 2008 the blog would refer 300 web visitors per month.
