What Aspect of Blogging is Most Important When Driving Traffic to Your Blog?

by Steve Remington

I think there are several things one can do to drive traffic to their own blog. Sometimes it is the combination of a lot of factors that determine how much traffic you can bring in. I created a poll off to the right in my sidebar of which I thought were some basic ways in which to drive traffic. I believe there are a lot more than 4 ways but I chose those 4 because they were simple and most popular.

There are sub-categories. For instance the SEOing of your blog. There are many things you can do that will help improve SEO. Same with networking with other bloggers. I can list probably 20 ways off the top of my head that could fall under the category of networking. Examples would be emailing other bloggers, commenting on other bloggers, running contests, and so on.

Updating your blog post often is a good one. But what kind of posts? Will all posts be treated the same? Long ones? Short ones? News articles or tips?

So feel free to take a look at the four options and determine if you could only choose one way to begin driving traffic to your blog, which one do you think is the most important? We all know they are ALL important but which one is the most important?

I am interested to see over the next couple weeks what you all choose. The poll is on the right side of the blog in the gray area. Thanks.